Word: subtext
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...flavored mousse, topped with steamed milk, accompanied by cinnamon-sugar doughnuts) was thought up one panicked late night at a doughnut shop when he was poor and struggling and desperate to impress the James Beard Foundation at a dinner the next night. It's effete food with testosterone subtext...
...Like colleges everywhere, Middlebury was deluged with a record number of applications - 5,400 - for the 515 seats in its freshman class. Which means that, as every parent, teacher, student and guidance counselor well knows, the competition for admission has grown exponentially fiercer in recent years. The not unsubtle subtext of Middlebury's communiqu? is that unless you're a world-renowned peace crusader - or Alan Alda sidekick! or circus performer! or something else truly eccentric! - the odds of getting into an elite school have lately shrunk to Powerball-like improbability...
...public clamor for it; no one knows if it works; most of America's friends and rivals hate it; and the incoming rogue ICBMs it is supposed to obliterate don't yet exist. But Bush's insistence on deploying a Son of Star Wars a.s.a.p. formed the edgy subtext of his meetings with European leaders in Genoa and the top talking point for his second sitdown with Russian President Vladimir Putin...
...point out. Indeed, just as Sharon does little to hide his contempt for the idea of Arafat as a negotiating partner, so have some of Arafat's aides begun to openly state their skepticism that any progress towards a peace agreement will be made while Sharon leads Israel. The subtext, then, may be a continuing war of attrition as each side awaits the internal collapse of the leadership on the other side. But along the way, both sides will also do the minimum necessary to satisfy the concerns of the Bush administration, which gives Powell some leverage to prevent...
...learns from everything. He observes a lot—the surface conversation, the subtext, the demeanor, the tone,” says Fineberg...