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suhbtahy tuhl

  • n  translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen
  • n  secondary or explanatory title
  • v  supply (a movie) with subtitles

  • It made him a best-selling author, of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (a book whose subtitle cued Fox News to sue him, unsuccessfully .
  • Both this and the subtitle, "an account in words and pictures," rather than "a novel," clearly point towards straight autobiography.
  • There are logical rules as well, such as finishing a subtitle when a character stops speaking and not extending it over a cut, which can be disorienting.
News & Articles

  • Book Review - The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Football Is Wrong, by Chris Anderson and David Sally
    What the subtitle does is place Anderson and Sally firmly on one side of the ongoing culture war between the nerds and the jocks, the savants and the savages, the iconoclasts and the establishment.
    June 17, 2013 - Philly.com
  • Address Absurdity: Rotland Press – ‘Black Eye 2? (…an interview: Part 2)
    Learn to love the bomb.   Strange-love…   An interview with Ryan Standfest “Dr. Strangelove” (1964, dir. Stanley Kubrick)- was co written by Terry Southern, another key influence upon the multifaceted Ryan Standfest, local publisher / artist / writer / performance artist… and that startlingly satirical, horrifyingly hilarious film’s subtitle is telling of Standfest’s own tweaked take on life: to ...
    June 16, 2013 - Detroit Metro Times
  • Cowboys LB Sean Lee tantalizes in practice
    The subtitle of Todd Archer's final review of Dallas Cowboys minicamp is "Sean Lee is everywhere," and this is no surprise. That's how Sean Lee rolls. From Todd's account, it sounds as though watching Lee in minicamp practices this week was a lot like watching Lee play games: Lee was everywhere. He opened team drills with a breakup of a Kyle Orton throw to TE Jason Witten, picked off Orton in ...
    June 14, 2013 - ESPN Blogs
Quotes

  • Julian Fellowes in Baltimore Sun
    The film has no villains,Fellowes says, "not even a minor one. Mary Poppins arrives to fix the problems of a family that don't have any. If the stage show had a subtitle, it would be, On the Saving of George Banks. The children are...
  • Keith Urban in CMT.com
    These songs are like my children,Urban explained. "That's what prompted the 18 Kids subtitle."
  • John Carey in Sydney Morning Herald
    That doesn't mean the subtitle is wrong,Carey adds quickly.

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