Answering machine messages from her mother and the ghostly voice of her deceased father interrupt Yoon's performances, their Korean dialogues becoming added threads in Yoon's moving yarn.
And by bringing King into the picture, Modi was able to highlight the intertwined threads of dialogue that tie together the two post-colonial nations: the Bhagavad Gita, Thoreau's civil disobedience, Gandhi's satyagraha, and King's dream.
In the words of Stephanie Spahr LaFroscia, the museum's Senior Manager of Public Programs who I interviewed, "[our programs] pull out threads of dialogues and ideas that are not fully explored within the exhibitions".
The students were paying me zero attention, the thread of dialogue was going in a completely different direction than I had planned, and I felt like a complete failure as a member of the faculty.
Nonetheless, according to a 2009 Harvard Business School case history an internal research study entitled Womenomics -- prepared in Goldman's Tokyo office -- triggered a companywide thread of dialogue that reached top management.
"These students were continuously involved in discussions and were often among the first to post a message, and to respond quickly to other messages, thereby creating "threads" of ongoing dialogue between students".
Back then you could get a live person on the line simply by dialing "O" on a rotary phone, and it was impossible to imagine, except in some episode of Star Trek, that we might one day beam each others' faces onto screens and speak in real-time on iPhones or Skype, or feverishly ichat in long threads of electronic dialogue.
While much of what is on screen in Shelter couldn't be further removed from the luxurious life led by a Hollywood couple, scratch beneath the surface and Bettany's personal experience is threaded through the dialogue and plot.
India has now offered to hold Foreign Secretary-level talks with Pakistan, but has rejected Islamabad's attempts to condition resumption of discussion on picking up the thread from the Composite Dialogue India paused after Mumbai.
Stoppard's dialogue is delivered with clarity and a rhythm that makes the threads of philosophical thought easy to follow.
