Word: subtext
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spot featured images of Thomas Jefferson as an announcer intoned, "Doug Wilder believes the government shouldn't interfere in your right to choose. He wants to keep politicians out of your personal life." It was the next sentence, perhaps the most important in the campaign, that provided the thematic subtext: "Don't let Marshall Coleman take us back...
...inhabited for generations. So they have been hitting back with strikes that, if they persist, could wreck the economies of some republics. And in Moscow, Communist conservatives have seized on the Russians' plight to justify a crackdown on the nationalist movements. News reports in the capital deliver a crude subtext: ethnic Russians are the victims of nationalist extremists. Politburo members like Victor Chebrikov, former KGB chief, thunder that those whipping up ethnic strife "should not go unpunished, no matter what flags they raise and what brightly colored national costumes they wear...
There has always been a feminist subtext to Wasserstein's plays, even in her earlier work when she relied on Jewish-mother jokes and collegiate sexual confusions for laughs. Her first success, Uncommon Women and Others, depicted a reunion of Mount Holyoke College alumnae six years after they have left the campus to make their way in the working world. The 1977 off-Broadway cast included Glenn Close, Jill Eikenberry and Swoosie Kurtz. Her 1983 hit comedy, Isn't It Romantic, which ran for two years off-Broadway, is a thinly veiled tale of Wasserstein's relations with...
...LILAC TIME: THE LILAC TIME (Mercury). Bouncy, folk-tinged Brit pop, with jagged political subtext. Return to Yesterday has the jubilant rhythm and incidental melancholy of prime Simon and Garfunkel...
...LILAC TIME: THE LILAC TIME (Mercury). Bouncy, folk-tinged Brit pop, with jagged political subtext. Return to Yesterday has the jubilant rhythm and incidental melancholy of prime Simon and Garfunkel...