Word: subtext
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subtext of the riots and the protests,integration was just a blip on the politicalscreen," Frank says. "Women's lib was justbeginning, and there wasn't that much change...
Actually, I interviewed. William Gibson, and the conversation I had with him kind of became a subtext in the book, because when I talked to him he said that he could never get on the net because he would feel crushed by it. I didn't really understand what he meant at the time, because I was so entranced by it, but by the end of the book, I understood completely what he meant. You can get crushed by it. The man who coined the word "cyberspace" doesn't have an e-mail account...
...antimonopolist reform impulses of the early New Deal--in which modern industrial capitalism was seen as a flawed system that needed to be repaired--gave way to a rights-based liberalism that accepted capitalism as it was and concentrated instead on civil rights and a full-employment economy. The subtext of Brinkley's book is that the unremembered battles fought by idealistic liberal bureaucrats in the '30s and '40s are part of a never ending American struggle between the conflicting national impulses that Alexis de Tocqueville described as communitarianism versus individualism...
Unfortunately, much of the prose suffers from an acute seventies tinge. Describing the typical user's reaction, Grinspoon writes. marijuana "heightens (or so they assert) capacity to feel, to appreciate, to perceive, AND TO SHARE." The Brady undertones elude poor Grinspoon, but the subtext of 70s culture adds to the book's entertainment value. This increases with the level of THC in your system...
...intentions by putting my hand on your arm, leg, shoulder, thigh, etc. while we talk, and I will leave it there just a little tooooo long. Everyone is aware of the principle of collegiate physical interaction, whereby libido disguises itself as "friendly affection." Admit it-there's a subtext to every "innocent goodnight hug." Play the Touch Game with abandon in this case; thoroughly invade the personal space of your target...