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Word: subtext (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Maltzan produced during his design process are left to speak for themselves and the oversize architectural cross-sections that dominate the walls of the gallery lack any label or scale. In all, the presentation of “Lift” is a bit too formal, given that social subtext to Malzan’s work would make it more relevant and widely accessible...

Author: By Christian A. Stayner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: GSD Gets ‘Lift’ From Young | 12/5/2003 | See Source »

...begins as the previous books have: the long, hot summer, the hopelessly unmagical, unforgivably bourgeois Dursleys, the longed-for magical summons, the hasty packing and finally--bliss--Platform 9 3/4 and on to another year at Hogwarts. But a lot has changed. Death, which was always part of the subtext of Rowling's story, burst out into the open in the previous novel, and the atmosphere in Phoenix has darkened accordingly. Voldemort is back, and Hogwarts' sage headmaster Aldus Dumbledore has organized some of the wizarding world's heavy hitters--your Mad-Eye Moody, your Remus Lupin--into an informal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Black Magic | 6/30/2003 | See Source »

...bathing suits on a tropical beach, she admits to being embarrassed by how she looks from the rear. Her sense of femininity is as intense as her feminism; her motherhood and her wonkiness complement and compete against each other. And the interplay of these dancing, dueling factors provides the subtext for the often inexplicable choices she makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Humanity of Hillary | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

...mostly for the violence. "If you have kung-fu fights with kicks to the head," explains Joel Silver, the trilogy's producer, "it automatically makes it R." The Zionists engage in a muddy but sedate orgy, intercut with a love scene between Trinity and Neo, the redeemer. Christian subtext, anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Five Burning Questions | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...audience gets to see the natural homoerotic subtext played out with an audience-pleasing lesbian kiss at the end of the first act. Unfortunately, Carmichael backs off of any of the kiss’s implications in a very “Jessica Stein” way, returning us to their prior platonic friendship immediately afterwards...

Author: By Sandra E. Pullman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Two-Week ‘Stopover’ in the Loeb Ex | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

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