Word: subtext
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Feldman says Ignatiev's attacks on the kosher toaster oven suggest a subtext that "these people have an unreasonable request...
...take longer for women to afford and arrange an abortion, which makes the procedure more dangerous. They also have the effect of sending a message. To abortion opponents, the message is that abortion on demand is immoral, and so should be illegal. But abortion-rights advocates see a different subtext. Instituting a waiting period suggests that women seeking abortions do so blithely and without reflection -- a notion belied by the experience of women who have endured the private, wrenching process of deciding to terminate a pregnancy. Experts calculate that 93% of married women who have abortions talk to their husbands...
...opened in 1971, at its close. Neither date is a coincidence: the existence of Disney theme parks on three continents has diminished, if not spoiled, the once-in-a-lifetime thrill of international expositions. Florida's Disney World in particular is a world's fair manque, complete with Utopian subtext, we're-in-business-to-help-people corporate pavilions and a giant sphere; and now, alas, Expo '92 may be experienced as something of an imitation. "It's sort of like Disneyland," an Expo '92 flack unhesitatingly said to a group of visiting journalists just before the first...
...similar scenario was played out when Magic Johnson announced that he had AIDS: the subtext was that even straight (read: blameless) people got AIDS. Because he was a convenient illustration of this fact, Magic became a spokesperson for AIDS education and prevention (there was even a children's special about him on cable TV) in a way that no gay AIDS patient has been. The same thing will most likely happen to Ashe unless he chooses to protect his privacy from further intrusions. He is to be respected for living with AIDS for three years and refusing to make...
...subject of comedy. Carson enlisted the audience as collaborators, with everything from the chorus of straight lines that arose from the studio audience whenever he complained about the weather ("How hot was it?") to his ubiquitous savers -- the ad libs meant to salvage jokes that have bombed. The subtext of Carson's comedy is always his own plight: How foolish, he says to the audience, to be a grown man earning a living trying to make people laugh...