Word: subtexts
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...plot itself is sometimes suspended altogether for moody dance sequences, slide shows of the AIDS quilt and sights of Baltimore. In these interludes the poignancy of The Baltimore Waltz becomes clearest, indicating the links between the satire of the play itself and its deadly serious subtext, AIDS...
...part of the new prissiness. But evil has traditionally been an equal-opportunity employer. Where would Barbara Stanwyck and the other ladies of the noir have been if their only subtext had been female victimization? Every once in a while a girl has to stop brooding over gender injustice, start thinking about sexual revenge, and slip into her thigh-highs and stiletto heels to lure a few dopes to destruction...
Zayas uses humor to explore some of these themes, with mixed success. The Wombs of Angel Street has some compelling well written dialogue. When his wife chides him for his insensitivity Antoine quips, "Oh great, now I have to start reading for subtext." The scene in which Antoine pours out his heart to the bartender provides another interesting look at the present day confusion over sex roles...
...disturbing subtext runs through our recent media fixations. Parents abuse sons -- allegedly at least, in the Menendez case -- who in turn rise up and kill them. A husband torments a wife, who retaliates with a kitchen knife. Love turns into obsession, between the Simpsons anyway, and then perhaps into murderous rage: the family, in other words, becomes personal hell...
...moral opinion is a subtext in Cole's landscapes, it is the essence of his big historical-didactic cycles, notably The Course of Empire, five large allegorical paintings of the rise and fall of an imaginary state -- by implication, America -- that he did for Luman Reed at the then immense price of $5,000. It was meant, he said, to show "the natural changes of Landscape and those effected by Man in his progress from Barbarism to Civilization -- to the state of Luxury -- to the vicious state or state of Destruction etc." He stirred in all manner of different cultures...