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That's the running joke, though some might call it a subtext, on Madonna's new album, "Music" (Maverick/Warner Brothers 2-47598), her latest foray into electronica.

That may well be the subtext on Tuesday night, when President Bush goes to Congress for his State of the Union address.

Whatever the subtext, on Saturday Mr. Gould revealed having posed as a neo-Nazi to the former SS officer, the 97-year-old Bernhard Frank, once a trusted aide to Heinrich Himmler, the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany.

For as much as the White House and lawmakers throughout the Northeast have asserted that the government's response to the storm should not be a political issue, Mr. Obama's visit carried an unmistaken political subtext on several fronts.

BEN RATLIFF HANS GLAWISCHNIG "Panorama" (Sunnyside) Latin jazz is the expected subtext on this sophomore release by Hans Glawischnig, a bassist who has devoted much of the last decade to nailing down the style.

Lance's doting on this allegedly ungrateful hound provides a comic subtext on the main-plot themes of friendship and fidelity (this echoing of themes is itself another characteristic Shakespearean device here tried out for the first time).

The subtext of "Girl on Fire," full of collaborations with other singer-songwriters, is that marriage and motherhood have given her new freedom, confidence and momentum.

One of his subtexts on Tuesday night was that doing big things these days may require a bit more humility, a lot more work, and some international partners that Americans rarely thought about 20 years ago but whose competition they have now grown to fear.

It makes explicit what some believers of many creeds -- though not the Bush administration -- say is the real subtext of the war on terrorism: that it is a battle between Judeo-Christian and Islamic values, beliefs and territorial ambitions.

Things started to change in the 1990s, when Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith peopled their films with characters who knew as much about pop culture as they did, but their extended riffs on the subtext of "Top Gun" were still the mark of a geeky, alternative sensibility.

My ultimate goal was to lead people to consider the deeper meanings and subtext of what occurs on the show.