Word: subtext
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...other striking thing about her lyrics in Boys for Pele is perhaps the gay subtext that surfaces in a few of the tracks. In "Blood Roses," for example, she sings, "You think I'm a queer/ I think you're a queer/ I think you're a queer/ Said I think you're a queer." Or in "Hey Jupiter...
This is the primal theme -- rying to bring the dead back to life- - that has preoccupied Casper's executive producer, Steven Spielberg, in E.T. and Poltergeist, Always and Jurassic Park. The new film is sprightly enough to conceal its subtext from censorious politicians. But children, who dwell in fear at least as much as in innocence, may get the message: that it would be cool, bitchin', totally awesome to join the Dead Kids Society...
...subtext of the riots and the protests,integration was just a blip on the politicalscreen," Frank says. "Women's lib was justbeginning, and there wasn't that much change...
Actually, I interviewed. William Gibson, and the conversation I had with him kind of became a subtext in the book, because when I talked to him he said that he could never get on the net because he would feel crushed by it. I didn't really understand what he meant at the time, because I was so entranced by it, but by the end of the book, I understood completely what he meant. You can get crushed by it. The man who coined the word "cyberspace" doesn't have an e-mail account...
...antimonopolist reform impulses of the early New Deal--in which modern industrial capitalism was seen as a flawed system that needed to be repaired--gave way to a rights-based liberalism that accepted capitalism as it was and concentrated instead on civil rights and a full-employment economy. The subtext of Brinkley's book is that the unremembered battles fought by idealistic liberal bureaucrats in the '30s and '40s are part of a never ending American struggle between the conflicting national impulses that Alexis de Tocqueville described as communitarianism versus individualism...