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The 149-day lockout was mostly about money and partly about competitive balance, but with a subtext of control.
What actually brings reporters to Fort Bragg these days, however, is not so much curiosity about deployments per se as a preoccupation with a subtext of questions that have never been squarely put to an Army spokesman.
I read a good deal in translation and this year a discovery was Daniel Pennac's Belleville novels, part crime stories part fairy tales with a subtext of protest against the destruction of a vibrant Parisian district.
Ms. Moorhouse's picture is a romantic melodrama with a subtext of fear, jealousy and the relativity of truth, brought to life through a triangle involving Martin, a blind paranoiac (Hugo Weaving); his housekeeper, Celia (Genevieve Picot); and Andy, the dishwasher who enters their lives (Russell Crowe).
tells the mythical saga of life's evolution on Earth, with a subtext of a creation myth and polytheistic evolution.
There is a subtext of violation to these images, and the viewer becomes complicit with it.
We always had a subtext of pop.
The result, Anvil! – The Story of Anvil, has been widely acclaimed as a real-life Spinal Tap saga with a touching subtext of artistic dedication, and looks set finally to secure a grateful trio of superannuated longhaired rockers their day in the sun after three decades of disappointment.
Conway's own staging of Dvorak's Rusalka transposes the action to colonial Haiti, where the Czech water-sprite's tortured dealings with humankind are infected by voodoo, with a menacing subtext of racism.
Questions from male journalists were rebutted with a charming subtext of 'I can't remember if I ever slept with your wife/girlfriend but if I did, then no harm done eh?'".
Sitting down with Editorial Director Montserrat Dominguez, the president spoke of hope for a solution even as the contentious talks seemed to inject his answers with a bitter subtext of criticism toward the Greek government.
