Word: topicalism
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...ACHIEVEMENT OF DEAD MAN Walking is quite a simple one: at its end you don't know where Tim Robbins, its writer-director, stands on the issue of capital punishment. Considering that there is no more tendentious topic available to a filmmaker, Robbins' restraint, his determination to explore the moral and psychological nuances of the relationship that develops between Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn), a man condemned to death for his participation in a heinous crime, and Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon), who becomes his spiritual counselor in his final months, is exemplary...
...What can you do other than sit around and have a drink, talk about international issues?" says Suhail P. Shah '96, who is from India. "Such an amorphous topic is better left to specific cultural organizations...
...rally in the Writers' Union House in Moscow, Yavlinsky, 43, leader of the Yabloko bloc, managed to win a few laughs from his earnest audience. During the election campaign, he quipped, the government has promised to do just about everything "except restore virginity." Turning to the topic of the President's health, Yavlinsky wanted to know if "Kremlin" orders would now have to be described as decisions by "the Central Clinical Hospital." It was just the sort of display of intelligence and humor that have made the boyish-looking economist the darling of Moscow's liberal intellectuals ever since...
...committees organize events such as the Women's Expo, a one day conference held in the spring on a specific topic...
...first section of Bad Objects focuses on the future and includes an essay universalism, a topic Schor hopes to explore further when she takes a sabbatical next spring...