Posters as an art form acquired particular topicality and political incisiveness in this period. Topicality is an intrinsic, unstated Affirmative burden in the Affirmative's first speech. The standard "stock issues" presented as planks are Topicality, Inherency, Harms, and Solvency. But even without such overt topicality, there was an ideological edge to his work. The vertical content area may be based on topicality, media type, or genre of content. She added topicality, photography, color. His spoken-voice work had punch and topicality. These were hot topics of the 1970s, but their topicality declined as time passed. Affirmatives can deploy a variety of answers to topicality violations in the 2AC. The Dutch word "actualiteit", on the other hand, only means "topicality" or "current events". Off-case arguments made include topicality, disadvantages, counter plans, and kritiks.