Word: subtexts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...President-elect was not there himself). Surfing an Australian news website, I noticed that its top story was a report of a speech that Obama had just given by video to U.S. state governors on the need for Washington to stake a leadership position on global warming. The subtext: See, he's not just not George Bush; he's almost...
...course, there may be a simpler reason for what seems like a farcical outcome. Stevens himself offered it in an answer about his legal status during an online video debate posted on the website of a local television station. His seat belongs to a Republican, he said. The subtext was: Vote for me, and in the worst-case scenario, you can vote for another Republican in a special election if I step down. Voters may have followed that logic. While Democrats would have loved to have sent Young and Stevens packing, Alaska is a deeply red state, and Obamamania never...
...delicate dance that Michelle is required to perform calls to mind the axiom that blacks must be twice as good as whites to get half as far. A few Democrats - and feminists - expressed disappointment at her convention speech, with its subtext of, Ignore my race and my Ivy League education and look how warm and maternal and unthreatening I am. But others, including, presumably, Michelle herself, recognized this soft approach as a necessity...
...working-class-hero stuff as well. Palin should leave the overcooked hockey metaphors in the penalty box, lest we hear some clunker about the "puck" of reform smashing through the good-ol'-boy goalies of D.C.'s terrible status quo. And both will need to avoid the unintended subtext blunder (see "pig, lipstick...
...language. Dashboard Confessional, evidently, does not make albums in Mandarin. What was even more troubling was that even some of the fans of the Carsick Cars—among the most progressive Chinese—were still smoking the metaphorical Zhong Nan Hai and not picking up on the subtext. It took one night in a club with three walls for the stupid American in me to remember that dissent in art begins at the bottom, and that it can take a long time to rise to the top. —Staff Writer Ruben L. Davis can be reached...