Word: subtexts
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...boil down the essence of each scene to its subtext acts as a close-up, a distortion, so that while you may lose the general reality you will gain a specific and different dimension...
...actor is a part of the experience of education and enlightenment," she explained. "The playwright just gives the words; you must give the subtext and the understanding." And, she added later, "the audience is a large part of the dramatic experience going...
That night Candidate Dewey addressed the U.S. and a pack-jammed Chicago Stadium audience on "Honesty in Government." He took his text from Thomas Jefferson: "The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." As a subtext he took the lead sentence of a P.A.C. pamphlet advocating Term IV: "politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why." Dewey's speech was a straightaway attack on the veracity of Franklin Roosevelt. He recalled the WPA vote scandals, the attempt to pack the Supreme Court...