Word: subtexts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...verbal vollies of the Gore and Bush camps have been relatively straightforward, but barbed. The subtext of Jim Baker's remarks was, "Al, you lost, give it up, don't put the republic through this." The subtext of Daley's remarks was, "Something's rotten in the state of Florida. Let's find out what...
...reason? The media have been telling you for the past several days they thought this election was too close to call. They were lying. Oh sure -margin of error, blah blah blah. But behind it all, for the past few days, the subtext, not too hard to catch if you watched a lot of cable news, was that we were about to meet President Dubya. (Which, again, we still might.) Bush was confident, Gore was struggling; Bush was striking broad, presidential themes, Gre was still trying to find his message...
...Roseanne's John Goodman stars in Normal, Ohio, which echoes its predecessor's discordant small-town setting, if not nearly as well. Creators Bonnie and Terry Turner (That '70s Show) conceived it as a buddy comedy between a gay and a straight man (The Odd Couple without the subtext) but retooled it; now the gay Butch (Goodman) returns to his small town to reconcile with his unaccepting parents and his grown son. Terry Turner says the creators wanted to base the show on a universal--"Family is one of those things everyone knows"--rather than on gay jokes. (Right...
...starting Nov. 1) - starring "Roseanne"'s John Goodman - which echoes that show's discordant small-town setting, if not nearly as well. Creators Bonnie and Terry Turner ("That '70s Show") conceived it as a buddy comedy between a gay and a straight man ("The Odd Couple" without the subtext) but retooled it; now the gay Butch (Goodman) returns to his small town to reconcile with his unaccepting parents and his grown son. Terry Turner says the creators wanted to base the show on a universal - "Family is one of those things everyone knows" - rather than on gay jokes. (Right...
...response was to call for a "secular revolution" that would end the Orthodox rabbis' lock on institutions like marriage and allow civil weddings. And though most observers believe Barak was just looking for political leverage, it's clear that the balance of God and power in Israel--always a subtext in political exchanges--is teetering again...