Re "The Bradley Trip" (column, Feb. 24), by Bob Herbert: The implicit message in Al Gore's "step-by-step" approach to health care reform is that the steps will be in the right direction: the Clinton administration's approach since the failure of its comprehensive health plan.
By emphasizing difference, the implicit message is the need to bridge that gap via imitation: if only the global south were more like the north, then life would be better.
Ironic, when you consider that the product for which the ad in question shills is one that disturbs a healthy V's natural, self-regulating biology, one that's counter-indicated by medicine, and one that carries the implicit message that your body, as it is, is bad.
In advertising, implicature refers to the implicit message carried out by an image in an ad.
And, even as the G.O.P. continues to inveigh against the perils of deficits, the implicit message it'll send by nominating Romney is quite different: Debt for me, but not for thee.
Not the least of this book's rewards is the implicit message that dangerous possibilities can be controlled by a combination of expertise, bravery, wisdom and just plain muddling through.
Whether it's Greg Mortenson building schools in Central Asia or a Harvard economist running deworming trials in Africa, the implicit message is that humanitarianism is something carried out by Westerners on behalf of poor people elsewhere.
But by the time Ozon got round to making his Rendell film, he rejected the implicit message that the heroine, Christine Clairere in his adaptation – is terrified of confronting her latent lesbian urges.
The implicit message here is that inequalities can be addressed simply by virtue of better use of resources facilitated by joint commissioning.
The state-controlled media loved the implicit message.
