Word: subtext
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...similar scenario was played out when Magic Johnson announced that he had AIDS: the subtext was that even straight (read: blameless) people got AIDS. Because he was a convenient illustration of this fact, Magic became a spokesperson for AIDS education and prevention (there was even a children's special about him on cable TV) in a way that no gay AIDS patient has been. The same thing will most likely happen to Ashe unless he chooses to protect his privacy from further intrusions. He is to be respected for living with AIDS for three years and refusing to make...
...subject of comedy. Carson enlisted the audience as collaborators, with everything from the chorus of straight lines that arose from the studio audience whenever he complained about the weather ("How hot was it?") to his ubiquitous savers -- the ad libs meant to salvage jokes that have bombed. The subtext of Carson's comedy is always his own plight: How foolish, he says to the audience, to be a grown man earning a living trying to make people laugh...
...SCTV mimics -- Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Martin Short -- did have a problem. On TV they hid like a subversive subtext inside their brilliant impersonations. But in movies an actor doesn't disappear; he displays himself. So Short has put his mimetic, improvisatory genius on hold and marketed one facet of his personality: the winsome whiner...
...Ever since high school I've had experiences with close women friends involved with eating disorders," she says. "It's just been like this subtext plague that everyone knows about and no one really wants to deal with...
This time, I didn't need to look far to find the hidden message. Rudenstine took the time to respond to what I had written. That meant he had read it. It meant that he had taken it seriously and tried to understand it. The subtext of those letters is simple: Rudenstine cares about what students have...