Word: subtexts
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Well, you have to expect a little melodrama--though Bull provides more than a little, saddling its well-heeled heroes mawkishly with personal burdens to up their sympathy quotient. More unsettling is the subtext of Ditto's crusade. Bull has internalized the trendy, bogus messages of Ameritrade ads, "new-economy" magazines like Fast Company and career gurus like Tom Peters: that entrepreneurship is heroism, that job insecurity is emancipation, that work is art and love and rock 'n' roll. Ditto mocks "the suits...who want to stay [at the firm] for the rest of their lives nice and safe...
...race. But Dubya managed to hit every amiable, feel-good note he intended to. He told us, "There used to be a slogan in Midland, 'The Sky's the Limit.' It's such an optimistic slogan, really." (Let it never be said the man can't read subtext.) He talked baseball. He showed Laura feeding him cake at their wedding. He took us out for a drive. He hung out in the yard with us. Knowing his greatest political asset is likability, he gave us that and more, all but offering the American people a frosty cold long-neck...
...Sprewell shows the racial subtext of the league," says Shields. "His hair forces conversation about a taboo subject. The librarian-like glasses [which he often wears postgame] press you to consider him a mental as well as a physical being. His nonchalance and distance force talk about how black men are 'supposed' to act. Sprewell is sophisticated and transgressive. He pushes the envelope...
...plans for Harvard Law School and work on a film screenplay. The result of his intervention is _Keeping the Faith_, a new romantic comedy first-time director/producer Norton jokingly refers to as his "$30 million rabbi priest joke." However, while the film certainly pays lip service to its religious subtext, it certainly takes its time in exploring them. The movie's two-hour and ten-minute running time is too long, really, for what is essentially a fluffy date movie with a serious undertone...
...constantly urging players to sacrifice their individual games for the sake of the team. His subtext is persuasive: Hey, Jordan gave up some of his individual stats to help the Bulls win six. Why can't you suck it up for the team too? "He's definite about things," says his longtime assistant coach Tex Winters. "He doesn't let things slip. He's not afraid to go face to face with Kobe or Shaq or anybody...