Word: subtext
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...years later, Ramone is a homicide detective and Holiday a limo driver (forced out on a morals charge by his ex-partner) when a new body turns up that fits the old M.O. Pelecanos has mellowed in his 14th novel--he's less gratuitously violent, more attuned to emotional subtext--but his prose has lost none of its street cred or bite. A ghetto bully who passes as a Jamaican drug lord is actually "as American as folding money...
...Korea] has ever heard publicly from either Moscow or Beijing, and the language about cooperation on stopping missile trade will significantly help Administration efforts to interdict North Korea shipments of weapons and materials around the world." Referring to China's surprising "yes" vote on the resolution, Green says: "The subtext of China's message to Pyongyang is that further provocations may well lead to sanctions...
...Guide named it one of its top 10 cult classics of all time, and college professors lectured about its hidden meaning and metaphors. Was there a hidden subtext within the show...
...been a big fan of Rocky and Bullwinkle and other shows in that vein that I had watched and appreciated as a kid. When I got older I saw all of these things I had never seen before or understood in [those shows]. I think one might see a subtext to Pee-wee?s Playhouse, but I don?t remember thinking about it much. There wasn?t anything in it designed to be hidden or that I didn?t want people...
...best Hollywood movies always knew how to sneak a beguiling subtext into a crowd-pleasing story. Superman Returns is in that grand tradition. That's why it's beyond Super. It's superb...