That was a problem in the longer pieces, but in Bill's shortest, most implicit stories, and in his occasional poems, the exactitude and poise of his writing could carry you away.
I'm not interested in definitively telling people what to see, or choreographing a set of photographs into a concept; I'm looking for possibilities and for implicit stories.
By evaporating the humor, the whimsy, the theatrics, the implicit narrative, Pollini told another story, about a moment, a century ago, when, across a varied range of inspirations and experiences, classical music underwent a revolution that's still being fought and disputed.
"There's comedy and there's satire implicit in the story," he said.
Implicit in the story is that Ms. Maddow is gay, something well known to listeners of her radio show.
Implicit in this story is a radical and rather insane notion that there is a moral cause-and-effect to everything, even bad weather.
There are strong, complicated emotions implicit in the story, and Ms. Gerwig, with her guileless smarts and agreeable openness, makes a game effort at exploring them.
Implicit in the story of Pilecki's own survival are two others: the slow replacement of German prisoners by Poles in the lower administration of the camp, and the successful conspiracy of Pilecki's group.
The cross-cutting of images -- islanders leaving, a plane in flight, streaming numbers, a radar display -- mirrors Mr. Reich's agile maneuvering of different textures and harmonies, while his pulsings actuate the forward drive implicit in the story.
All of these questions address issues implicit in your story but miss what makes it work — and that's the genius with which you lure readers into believing that we are going to get one kind of story and then give us another: we are, in effect, as deceived as the brawny Nordic types.
