Mr. Gaghan won an Oscar for writing "Traffic, " a film of similar intricacy and topicality.

WSJ: Glib Lines in the Sand

This dichotomy lends topicality -- in many newsrooms, after all, economic pressures are putting traditional enterprise reporters on the endangered-species list.

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As a general rule I feel pretty good about the process and the discipline we apply to our brands so it goes back to testing versus topicality again.

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The plot lacks the topicality and nervous tension that distinguished it the first time around, when the same director, Martin Campbell, made it for British television in 1985.

NEWYORKER: Edge of Darkness

Although Abacha is now dead, 'King Baabu' has lost nothing of its topicality as similar figures remain in power in many countries in Africa and all over the world.

BBC: Nigeria's Soyinka back on stage

It will be also the opportunity to revisit the thought of the Burkinabe Professor, especially his views on culture, education, endogenous development, Pan Africanism and youth, and to underscore their topicality.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

The heroine is a shrink, played by Annabella Sciorra, and the plot is tinged with topicality: Sciorra dates and beds a ruggedly handsome aviator (Jamey Sheridan), who happens to be connected to one of her patients a voluptuous woman named Eve (Deborah Unger).

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