Word: subtext
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...once fled the hell of war and totalitarianism; like them, he suffered unnamed-and perhaps unnameable-trauma. Cockpit seems to be a refraction of those anguished early years. If it is, then the novel's epigraph need not be from Dostoyevsky but from Auden, whose insight remains the subtext for all acts of vengeance: land the public know What all schoolchildren learn Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return...
...Guthrie Theater. At first he was discomfited by the Guthrie's classically English style of acting. "I didn't see the value in being able to say nine lines on one breath," he says. "What was missing is what American actors are known for: interior work, subtext work." But with the advent of Director Mel Shapiro, Moriarty found a mentor whose approach to acting meshed with his own, and he soon was playing increasingly important roles in everything from Mourning Becomes Electra to Merton of the Movies...
Whenever Sidney Lumet and Sean Connery get together, the subject seems to be sadomasochism. It was the major theme of The Hill, a subtext of The Anderson Tapes, and now, in The Offence, it is once again a central preoccupation...
...think it's wrong to ignore the sense of fear and melancholy that really does pervade the subtext of On the Town. The plot itself is simple enough. Three sailors--Ozzie (Bill Gerber), Gabey (Kurt Peterson), and Chip (Jess Richards)--are on their first, one-day leave in New York City. They're cornfed types and, although between the three of them they don't want to miss a bit of what the city has to offer, they're mostly interested in girls. Particularly Miss Turnstyles, a subway poster girl with whom Gabey instantly falls in love, and who becomes...
...instantly snatched a towel to his loins. In a sense, all of Director Nichols' work, from Virginia Woolf to The Graduate and Catch-22, has included the same scene: knowledge precedes shame. On the surface, Nichols' new film, Carnal Knowledge, is an unfettered sexual farce. But the subtext carries the chill of fastidious puritanism: sex is dirty; touch it and you get a disease...