Word: subtext
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...costume show on skates can have a subtext, it was to ask the big American question of the past five months: Where do you draw the line between remembering and forgetting? There certainly was a lot of remembering: the WTC flag, the marching police and fire fighters, the appearances by Eruzione and, especially, sitting among the athletes, President Bush. But the athletes, videotaping their walk around the stadium, handing Bush their cell phones so he could talk to their families, were also looking forward--forward to competing, perhaps even winning and, yes, having...
...clash of temperament and artistic style, a dream of artistic brotherhood soured by jealousy and the desire to assert dominance. That is the subtext of a major exhibition opening in Amsterdam this month tracing the relationship between Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, two of the 19th century's greatest painters. The nine weeks the two men spent together in southern France in 1888 culminated in one of the most dramatic events in the history of modern art: Van Gogh slicing off a piece of his ear after a quarrel with Gauguin...
...subtext of the stimulus fight is the same one that's been bubbling in Washington since long before Sept. 11 - tax cuts, and whether the future should include more of them, or less. The Republicans are using Sept. 11 as the reason to cut rates faster and deeper and put in place a fiscal structure built for growth; the Democrats are using the future as the reason to stop the madness now, before America wakes up and finds itself back in the same riptide...
...cream open in her hand. Her husband (or whoever is the balding man in her life) sticks his head around the corner. “I’m not eating, I’m self-medicating,” is the catchy punchline italicized at the bottom. Subtext: Hah. Silly woman. Clearly self-medication is pathetic rationalization. Eating won’t solve her problems. Hah. Women say the stupidest things to justify their total lack of self-control...
...Wasn’t There that it is the first Coen film without a single perfect scene. Blood Simple has at least four; Fargo, more than a dozen. But those films took their energy more from the ideals of their characters than the Coens’ love of subtext. It’s telling that The Man Who Wasn’t There’s best scene, in which Riedenschneider constructs an initial defense, is chiefly powered by Riedenschneider’s instincts, and not solely by the Coens’ desire to prove a certain point. Most...