Yet what is not said is the subliminal theme of the evening.
"There was a definite underlying, subliminal theme within the party that we needed to nominate a hip young conservative, somebody who can directly relate to baby boomers, who understands them," said Greg Mueller, a Republican strategist in the Washington area.
The subliminal theme throughout the film series is that the power of art lies in its ability to produce beauty, change, and liberty, if you have the desire for it.
There are, of course, different kinds of themed puzzle: light themes, heavy themes, subliminal themes that make the solver feel clever to have spotted it, but which do not have to be identified to make it possible to complete the puzzle.
Subjects form elaborate stories about the characters in the drawings, but their narratives actually reveal, or so it is believed, subliminal themes that drive their own behavior.
Or, more importantly, I wondered if they would care at all about those subliminal themes.
Malamud was a brilliant novelist who weaved those myths in the tangled roots of his work, but I wondered if baseball movie audiences would be hip to the "meaning beneath the meaning". Or, more importantly, I wondered if they would care at all about those subliminal themes.
Leather Man, or the Pleasure Chest, might well have been the source for the bound, harnessed and corseted looks on some runways, where control and captivity were the none-too-subliminal themes.
With Thriller, Jackson would begin his association with the subliminal motif of paranoia and darker themes, including supernatural imagery in the album's title track.
Lingeman's discussion of films is never less than interesting, and he understands the paradox of a politically repressive period leading to some of the most inventive films ever made, often with subliminal blacklisting themes.
The overdubbing of these craggy, worn voices is a kind of subliminal foreshadowing of the movie's theme, which is that while youth may be pretty to look at, ripeness is all.
