Word: subtext
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...calling, and Americans are sick of that kind of campaigning," he says, chatting with an unseen listener. "I'd like to run a campaign that is hopeful and optimistic and very positive." It's a textbook effort at inoculation. If you hear anything bad about me, the ad's subtext says, it's that mud throwing and name calling I warned you about...
...longer regards Clinton a policy adviser in good standing, and he?s made abundantly clear that Moscow regards Chechnya as an entirely domestic matter. "For Moscow, Western criticism has made Chechnya more than simply a war against terrorism," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "It's taken on the subtext of an anti-NATO campaign, and the more the West complains the more Russia?s generals will dig in their heels...
...motives of record companies (for commodifying violence through gangsta rap), that hasn't stopped him from producing his own music endorsing violence and the gangsta lifestyle. And more often than he criticizes the politics of record companies, he's criticizing the salary they pay him. More problematic is the subtext of misogyny that permeates his work. While it was minimized in the wake of Maxinquaye, it makes an unhappy rebound on Juxtapose and was prominently on display in his inter-song patter and several of the newer songs, including "She Said" and "I Like the Girls." The audience at Avalon...
There's a subtext to this story: I have the character to lead. But McCain's tale suggests flaws as well as attributes. The "crude individualism" of his youth has translated into a go-it-alone political style that has produced little legislation. And when McCain waffles--appearing to back down on his staunch pro-life position, for example, by suggesting recently that he would not push for the repeal of Roe v. Wade--it seems worse than typical polspeak. McCain's biography makes a compelling read, but it may not guarantee presidential greatness...
...York Times had to ruin it. The paper finally dropped the snooty subtext sprinkled throughout its Metro section, its Real Estate section and its none too subtle Dining In section ("Tonight, my lord, we shall attempt to eat in our very own home!") and just came out and said it. In a front-page story about the Bruce Springsteen concert was this comment: "Many people seemed, for a day at least, to exult in the fact that they too were from New Jersey...