There is merit to the suggestion that Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) interviews be
sub rosa when unresolved policy questions are injected into the equation.
But, for a good few, fearless writing never really stopped completely during those dangerous times, though much of it done
sub rosa or in the so-called 'mosquito press,' sometimes called alternative or underground press.
Racism that once may have remained politely
sub rosa, a kind of muted theme in everyday life, has risen again to the surface, a blatant affront to human dignity and all that is decent.
"This slice of personal nostalgia isn't really enough to make this logo meaningful to others, and frankly, I think there might be more to the story," said Michael Ventura, founder and CEO of strategy and design consultancy
Sub Rosa. "I'm not a fashion designer, but I have always found Versace's work to be 'sexy ugly'--using garish patterns and loud, borderline obnoxious color combinations to make something of beauty.
Take me, I am the drug of your morning, the bees knees endlessly buzzing--that hum under your tongue,
sub rosa, tabula rasa.
"And if you enter a place na hindi naman kayo kilala [where you are not known], keep a
sub rosa style of movement," he said.
That I was unaware of this back then--although Artforum's offices, where I worked at the time, were just across the street from the gallery, and Rene wrote for the magazine and was often around-suggests a kind of
sub rosa life the space had, a place in the daily routines of a distinct self-defined culture.
This brings us to the so-called "
sub rosa sales," a variation of [section] 363 sales.
This is an overt use of courts to drag more of the public business back into the shadows and enforce a type of
sub rosa censorship.
Gentlemen would regard such confessions as "
sub rosa" - under the rose.
She has also been active as a director and a composer herself, and she has recorded the premiere of the complete Cage's Songbooks for
Sub Rosa on CD, as well as Frederic Acquaviva's Aatie on CD/DVD.