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Still, the performance includes some unmistakable allusions to Nijinsky's life.
The lyrics are full of references and allusions and shit.
There were no vague allusions here — only true call-outs.
They also made vague allusions to his wife and child.
The word "carnage" was one of many allusions to violence.
Tones clash; idioms and allusions brush up against each other.
"Tangerine" is full of allusions to other books and writers.
There are allusions to Mother Nature, motherhood and womanhood throughout.
It is often veiled in memes, allusions and insider jokes.
Polaroid snaps, lists of sources and literary allusions punctuate this trip.
His works are packed with symbols, referential allusions and invented hieroglyphs.
Biblical allusions and after-church oddities are strewn across his catalog.
The world was fixated on her allusions to her private life.
Allusions to gas chambers and ovens became almost a verbal tic.
There are the marks, the layering, the allusions to current events.
" (Bloomberg View) • Lex (going overboard on "Star Wars" allusions) writes, "M.
Subtle and flagrant allusions to non-Dead songs pepper their shows.
The movie includes allusions to casual, even institutional lesbianism on Paradise Island.
And then there are the more subtle allusions that dot popular culture.
A diligent visitor can grasp the honey allusions without substantial background knowledge.
Throughout the press conference, Allred made numerous allusions to Clinton v. Jones.
In its various genre allusions, it draws from a deep, idiosyncratic well.
She is unabashed in her allusions to Philip Guston and James Ensor.
Without the show's usual subtle allusions and abstract allegories, these scenes drag.
For all their learnèd allusions, the boxes just plain work as objects.
In some cases, there are sly literary allusions that deliberately transpose gender.
There are specific memories and allusions to paintings, books, poems, and biblical imagery.
But its use of Christian allusions didn't sit right in some schools, either.
We would like election processes to proceed without such allusions to our country.
But Dylan's got more than allusions and a sense of how words register.
On occasion, these allusions can be literal to the point of seeming silly.
The cinematic cosmos of the French director Arnaud Desplechin teems with literary allusions.
Maybe the allusions to color on a song like "Pink Matter" mean this.
Mr. Biden's appearance in New Hampshire was bathed in allusions to the presidency.
Correspondents covering the team did their best not to overdo the battlefield allusions.
The light tone diffuses the pretension of this and other art-historical allusions.
But these allusions don't detract; in fact, they indicate a compelling, unthreatened awareness.
The allusions have grown denser, though, and more specifically knotted into art history.
Possibly thanks to plentiful pop cultural allusions, even millennials recognize the name Zapruder.
To feel that the witticisms and allusions are not only clever but insightful.
Corbet, as you might be able to tell, isn't subtle with his allusions.
If you say Al Capone, that can fit a multitude of allusions or references.
Again, it was Sally's allusions to his financial status that prompted Shepherd's masterful shade.
The 2014 blog post is not the only time Caracciolo has made such allusions.
There are strong allusions to the issues Indigenous Australians face, such as institutional racism.
Throughout the movie, allusions are made to rumors surrounding Goodwin's reputation with young women.
But outside the classroom and the public square, official allusions to religion fly freely.
There's National Comics, allusions to a Doctor Who-style show, and of course, Anomaly.
I love the footnotes about the publishing history, the allusions and all that stuff.
With the larger plates, the playfulness and street-food allusions are mostly left behind.
But Mr. Riley isn't constructing yet another postmodern playhouse out of borrowings and allusions.
Its sheer formal poetry kept the aviary and female allusions from tipping into kitsch.
There are even custom chrome Norse god trim pieces and allusions throughout Thor 24.
" She also slips in allusions to "Day of the Locust" and "The Big Sleep.
It includes praise for the female form and oblique allusions to Brazil's polarized politics.
That's clear in the book itself, which makes unmistakable allusions to the Yale ugliness.
Alissa: There have always been a ton of religious allusions sprinkled throughout The Leftovers.
Her allusions to patience are at odds with his entrenched anxieties about meeting up.
Yet the fragrance line is full of subtle allusions to Indian scents, places and history.
As you can see in the picture above, the book isn't short on Bible allusions.
There are no flash-forwards, no winky allusions to the presidency that is to come.
Some get very specific, making allusions to Asian parenting, cuisine and even common Asian habits.
Many allusions are rather opaque to us 100 years on, especially because families were creative.
It also, in a largely gay congregation, contained frequent allusions to sexual tolerance and AIDS.
Subway Why do so many fast food restaurants have allusions to penises in their names?
This is also the first of many allusions similar to those in Southern Gothic literature.
Allusions to the present are in ample supply in this Russian doll of a novel.
I wonder if there are any anti-Trump allusions in the upcoming season of Thrones.
The book is riddled with pop culture allusions — from Beyoncé to Miley Cyrus to Lululemon.
Dawnbringer is its own abundant world, with its own symbolism, patterns, allusions, and so forth.
David Rockwell's set design combines timeless imperial imagery (giant gearlike constructions) with pointed American allusions.
Like other projects from Major Food Group, it is packed with ideas and historical allusions.
With an awareness of the exhibition's unifying thread, however, the allusions to travel unravel themselves.
Allusions to climate change, though she does not reject them, are not the main aim.
Even the duo's most famous work is filled with allusions to identity being a construct.
There are enough nods to the HP canon — allusions, symbolism, character references — to satisfy Potter nerds.
He also avoided any allusions to the Democratic field - or his own chances in the race.
Allusions to Nicole and Jacques' secret romance in episode 206Perhaps the best part of Nailed It!
Again: language is where I can still make inroads and make allusions to a larger world.
There are allusions to King Arthur and golden days of yore and alternate-timeline dystopian futures.
And as opaque as his allusions may have seemed outside Poland, his international reputation grew steadily.
Mr. Anderson has always drawn liberally from film history, folding allusions to favorites into his work.
Less crude than earlier books, there are still plenty of adult allusions to keep parents amused.
Here is a guide to some of his more memorable allusions from the last 30 years.
There is narrative within narrative; from art historical allusions to references to pop culture and Blackness.
Some attendees, however, found the allusions to opium bars and Asian courtesans to be tone-deaf.
Earlier works of his in particular are laced with darkly comical allusions to negative emotion and death.
Content warning: the following article contains graphic allusions to abuse—and rape—and arcane psychiatric treatment procedures.
There have been a number of allusions to Harvey Weinstein's "open secret," as Lena Dunham called it.
This season has been full of religious allusions, and this episode brings us the most mystical yet.
But Magnus instills this bland domestic setting with multiple allusions to the composer's avant-garde serial technique.
Donald J. Trump has made winking allusions to Mr. Clinton's infidelities and other controversies from the 1990s.
The simple evil of the sign far surpasses the brief allusions to inequality of the original film.
The Malley poems make extremely subtle allusions to a dozen poets, from Shakespeare to T. S. Eliot.
" His portraits, she observes, "embody allusions to 'the women question' that are far from straightforward to read.
The result is a movie that, for all its operatic allusions and actorly expertise, feels dismayingly passionless.
There are no peacock displays of pointless erudition in her work; no recondite allusions are dragged in.
A blend of Somali slang and geographical allusions are heating up the city with a new sound.
Mr. Boesman's score is an exuberant, slippery mix of styles, full of onomatopoeic effects and witty allusions.
And Broadway plays and musicals have recently made subtle (and not so subtle) allusions to the president.
With allusions to "The Arabian Nights," Cervantes, and Chaucer, his tale weaves memory, dream, philosophy, and illusion.
Nathalie is a philosophy professor, and the script bristles with casual allusions to famous and obscure philosophers.
Professor Rest decorously avoided the word "sex," but Stern's imagery seethes with allusions to bondage and predation.
Graduate Minneapolis, which opened last month near UMN, has hundreds of visual allusions to Prince's Purple Rain.
In an early exchange on immigration, he dropped one of several allusions to Bernier being a fraud.
Our reporter found the only allusions to the building's dark past buried on the extensive cocktail menu.
As a result, Chinese art has metaphors and allusions that can be lost on non-Chinese audiences.
Around the fire, stories turned starkly philosophical, full of allusions to the ancestors and the spirit world.
For insiders plugged into the world of Wall Street, Billions is an entertaining (and accurate) parade of allusions.
Allusions to catastrophe, though, made him question whether "the centre cannot hold" was perhaps too morose a theme.
Beyond vague allusions to old age and youth, the characters ages on Game Of Thrones isn't discussed much.
No vague allusions on when this stuff is going to be released, but hey, that's Google I/O.
" —Briggitte Suastegui "I love books about other books, and this one is full of literary puns, allusions, etc.
The movie was criticized by reviewers for its preciousness and over-done allusions to the "Kill Bill" franchise.
Allusions are made to "watching through keyholes" and once having a temper that is, for now, under control.
Allusions are made to Kafka, Dostoyevsky, David Foster Wallace and many other writers (nearly all of them men).
Startups struggled to sell new products with advertising that allowed only veiled allusions to how they are used.
In the first body of work, there were allusions to Russian Suprematism and Kasimir Malevich's love of airplanes.
When they warned him against lashing Arizona's Republican senators by name, he made snide allusions to them instead.
Mr. Peres, who frequently drew on historical allusions, thought of himself as a philosopher more than a politician.
The song is critical of the United States' presence in the Middle East, with multiple allusions to Iraq.
These allusions don't amount to anything and come off like futile, nonsensical bids to explain the German setting.
The diasporic tale he's telling is as understated and subtle as the allusions to Ailey's choreography and biography.
Literary allusions are sprinkled through the new novel: a bit of Kundera here, some Yeats and Akhmatova there.
While blue recalls Yves Klein, and the bread evokes his paint-soaked sponges, the sculpture exceeds those allusions.
Experienced together, the paintings conjure a vibrant, eclectic mysticism, based in fertile allusions and buoyant color and texture.
For all its echoes and allusions, "La La Land" is too lively and too earnest for mere pastiche.
Critic's Pick The beguiling shapes in her first New York retrospective are filled with allusions to women's bodies.
Whether it is a mask or a vessel, Moon's works contains multitudes of different overlapping allusions and evocations.
The Curse must reside somewhere, or sportswriters will have no historic context for our painful metaphors and allusions.
You can imagine its dancers as dragonflies, fauns, larks — though any such illusions or allusions come and go.
Biden on Friday issued similar warnings against those fears in the United States, making plain allusions to Donald Trump.
All attempts of imposing unilateral pressure will be reward- less and no one should have allusions in this regard.
There are brief allusions, but it's difficult to feel their poignancy in the absence of a fully drawn biography.
The books are filled with a tricky mix of wordplay, invented words, songs, allusions, British cultural references, and more.
Again and again, the memo makes allusions and suggestions that it does not manage to back up with facts.
In a speech to supporters peppered with literary allusions, Baudet said the arrogance of the elites had been punished.
She puns with gusto, potently and unabashedly, until one begins reading double meanings, allusions and ulterior motives into everything.
Its music is studded with sonic and structural allusions, though it doesn't linger on any particular style or era.
Matthews is not the first MSNBC anchor to be criticized for using allusions to the Nazis when discussing Sanders.
The literary allusions have been dropped in the series, understandably, but the novel holds a greater challenge for adapters.
There are allusions to the "Iliad," and echoes of Icarus and Daedalus as Ethiopians take flight from the cliff.
It's not a comforting vision but an incisive one — and worthy of archiving in your collection of cultural allusions.
In contrast to their previous work, the pieces here are more introspective — no allusions to Michael Jackson this time.
Stone then wrote some over-the-top texts to Credico with allusions to "The Godfather" and threatened Credico's dog.
And there are allusions to what Stone was allegedly telling top members of the Trump campaign about WikiLeaks' plans.
In this frozen aftermath, the memory of horror surfaces indirectly in Frits's gruesome nightmares and, very occasionally, in overt allusions.
It's probably not a deliberate reference, but given the depth of nerdy King allusions on this series, you never know.
There was Lemonade (2016), a palimpsest of Beyoncé's heartbreak and allusions to both familial and historical depictions of black womanhood.
The tune bore some hallmarks of its era, particularly in its embrace of synth melodies and allusions to geopolitical struggles.
It's way more deliberate with is allusions and connections — it practically whacks you over the head with the Gutenberg Bible.
Until now, Sentient has been treated as a government secret, except for vague allusions in a few speeches and presentations.
One thing that has bugged critics of Kitaj is that his work can be simultaneously accessible and full of allusions.
Although their references to the border might be lost on some, fronterizxs can quickly cue into all of their allusions.
Personally, I think almost everything is funny, but after a while the allusions to female body parts can grow tiresome.
Aside from a few vague allusions to Soviet and Russian greatness, Putin made little reference to ideology along the way.
In this tribute to ballet, Ms. Kunikova has included allusions to classics and also incorporated passages from lesser-known works.
Cain incorporates three-dimensional elements like backpacks, canvases, vinyl flooring, and a bench, with painted allusions to abstraction and graffiti.
And the film itself was densely packed with visual references and allusions, the work of other artists and Beyoncé herself.
He's advanced the time to just after World War II, so there are cigarettes and mafia allusions and a Vespa.
Inspired by these, we created a playlist for the "Odyssey," which focuses on allusions or retellings of Homer's epic poem.
Ulysses is a famously difficult work, more than 200,000 words long and densely packed with allusions and fragmented, hallucinatory language.
As familiar as those from the Bible, these stories saturate our literary history, in renditions and translations, allusions and transformations.
Full of allusions to Cervantes, Dostoyevsky, Rafael Alberti, and the Bible, the book feels like an allegory without a key.
Allusions to painting are still present, however; it's just that Ms. Barth's focus has shifted to still lifes and monochromes.
Arcade Fire has always been acutely conscious of music history, using stylistic allusions to underline or tease against its messages.
Who has time to parse the dense layers of musical and verbal allusions that went into peak 1990s hip-hop?
Meanwhile, what he's telling his "baby" is far from affectionate, even if it's couched in allusions to Dionne Warwick hits.
With that backdrop in mind, the team suggests that some of the allusions in the inscription may be climate-related.
Here's hoping we all remember the deeper allusions and messages about issues like climate change, empowerment, diversity and human connection.
But most of the show was strained attempts at wisecracks, mixed in with misfiring allusions to passing time and regrets.
Mr. Croes is actually Belgian, not from Africa, but cross-cultural borrowing and cryptic allusions are central to his work.
It's hard not to see the constant allusions to all-out nuclear and biological warfare in season four as incredibly ominous.
His first foray into fiction, at the age of 72, is nonetheless stuffed with literary allusions, along with much wonderful writing.
The story also notes emails that make mention of Milo passwords that were apparent allusions to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.
Yet readers expecting Mr Gaiman's typical style—gentle, rhythmic prose intricately plotted and stuffed full of allusions—will come away disappointed.
Al Sharpton "a disgusting pig directly responsible for the murder of two good policemen," or using allusions to homosexuality as insults.
We're always looking for red herrings, allusions, symbolism, double meanings, and clues in order to come up with the best theories.
In posing the question, the reporter made allusions to Clinton's support of abortion and Trump's statements vilifying migrants and religious minorities.
De Bruyckere's work is always multilayered, with rich allusions to art historical traditions of the Northern Renaissance, mythology, and Christian iconography.
The album contains several reflections on mortality, and fans have pored over the lyrics for possible allusions to Bowie's eventual passing.
For him, the past was fluid; historical periods and literary allusions were meant to flow together as gracefully as the Tiber.
From that year-long experience he has fashioned a subtle and touching book, offered as fiction but rich in topical allusions.
Mr. Dylan soon emerged as a fountainhead of allusions and aphorisms himself — he's got more one-line life lessons than Aesop.
With its sight gags, verbal wordplay, pop culture allusions and jokes about high art, the show has humor of every stripe.
Rippling below these allusions is the question: Can artists still be social critics, tricksters and renegades when they're accepting corporate money?
Biblical allusions and echoes of gospel structure were part of his songwriting from the beginning (as in "Blowin' in the Wind").
With its sight gags, verbal wordplay, pop culture allusions and jokes about high art, the show has humor of every stripe.
His book is peppered with brief stories and artistic allusions, and it moves quickly from idea to idea, study to study.
When it works, the allusions give you a contact high, like when a friend turns you on to a favorite movie.
Her subjects — family life, children, sex, aging — lay close to hand but resonated with deeper meanings, often enriched by biblical allusions.
There is a miraculous quality to watching a dry riverbed fill, and the video circulated online with allusions to the Bible.
His presidential campaign made frequent allusions to Zelenskiy's on-screen character, who is scrupulously honest and outwits corrupt lawmakers and oligarchs.
From his "Imagine" tattoo to lyrical allusions to their first kiss, Buzzfeed outlined the ways Grande paid tribute to her late ex.
There are a bunch of good songs on this, like "Fly In" and "Fireman," but still no allusions to giving lip service.
It was as funny as always, and as surreal, looping through word games and allusions and all the usual stuff we did.
From his "Imagine" tattoo to lyrical allusions to their first kiss, Buzzfeed outlined the ways Grande paid tribute to her late ex.
The president made some allusions to events in Washington, but his attacks on a "witch hunt hoax" were brief and somewhat perfunctory.
Dense, challenging, aphoristic and swarming with recondite allusions and puns, these novels display an authoritative grasp of a breathtaking range of subjects.
Even Obama's yearly Ramadan statement was peppered with indirect allusions to Trump, who has proposed banning all Muslims from entering the country.
"The rules" are not really rules, but a series of in-jokes and allusions, along with the (rare) piece of useful advice.
Plot twists hinge on characters picking up slight allusions to Kierkegaard, or learning to question not just what they do but why.
From his "Imagine" tattoo to lyrical allusions to their first kiss, Buzzfeed outlined the ways Grande paid tribute to her late ex.
The allusions to natural phenomena connect Bradford to Romantic notions of the sublime, in which nature was used to convey overwhelming power.
Not to mention there's also a lot of allusions to duality in the track list alone...Pride/Humble, Lust/Love, Fear/God.
But what felt most familiar about the DRL, which announced its existence to the world today, is its allusions to professional wrestling.
Take the first verse of "Desolation Row," a song that is really a catalog of literary allusions: Cinderella, she seems so easy.
There are several allusions to Shakespeare's "Tempest" in these pages — the possibilities of a "sea change," and Prospero's sorcerer abilities to enchant.
There is a quick look at Damon Herriman as Charles Manson, and allusions to the BTK killer and the Atlanta child murders.
Unsurprisingly there are multiple allusions to death and rebirth, but they feel much less linked to questions surrounding religion or the afterlife.
There are biblical allusions to Jesus, Mary, Judas and perhaps another disciple, but the story line is muddled and hard to interpret.
As the protests took on a sense of permanence, Ms. Najjar's bravado became alloyed with increasingly frequent allusions to her possible demise.
" Titling the dance after its score is a nod to Balanchine, as are understated allusions to the opening and closing of "Agon.
Most of the other allusions in this shaggy-dog tale of wild conspiracism and male petulance are not quite so blatantly meta.
These delicacies and others were described in language that was anachronistic in its rolling, deliberate gait but exquisitely contemporary in its allusions.
There's no doubt that same-sex encounters and relationships occurred on plantations — there are allusions in at least a few slave narratives.
For the most part, though, the multiple allusions to canonical ballets feel gratuitous — ingenious but discrete, like many of the production's ideas.
Rich with multileveled allusions, the raps confront gentrification, nativism, the dumbing-down of hip-hop and the rise of Donald J. Trump.
Because you guys do tend to layer so much meaning, you get a lot of fans obsessing over identifying symbols and allusions.
While The Lighthouse's ambiguity and allusions lend themselves to all sorts of metaphorical deep-dives, there's also a few more straightforward reads.
Because Immendorff''s pictorial allusions, very often, refer to details of contemporary German history, his work was (and still is) more elusive.
Afrofuturist allusions crop up less overtly in the sprawling canvases of Kerry James Marshall, whose exhibition at the Met Breuer, through Jan.
Part of this has to do with the charming exoticism of her old-time world with its winking artifice and cinematic allusions.
His architectural setting comes from a Renaissance set for tragic theater; there are quotations from Renaissance painting and allusions to Latin literature.
There are frequent allusions to "bids" (tours in prison), "guys in the yard" (fellow prisoners) and "shankings" (stabbings with a makeshift weapon).
Perhaps James Delos' speech, with its allusions, twists, and turns, implies that there's another, better way, than Ford's and Arnold's (and Delos' own).
This time around I caught some Poltergeist allusions thanks to Eleven's (Millie Bobby Brown) use of the TV as a psychic communication device.
After two weeks of allusions to extraordinary additional support for the company, we think $207 million in additional measures is a stunning disappointment.
While Clinton didn't mention Trump directly in Kansas City, there were allusions to him, including his questioning of President Barack Obama's American citizenship.
Despite some folkloric allusions to Morrowind, and a heavily touted continuity with the events of Oblivion, Skyrim's story and setting were vastly different.
It's the latest in a week when Trump has repeatedly made allusions and nodded to symbols that are usually considered beyond the pale.
"'Queen of Mosquitos' is a term of endearment," Coomers wrote in an email to Noisey, clearing up a few of those textual allusions.
While the previous series makes allusions to danger, Yokosuka Again places Miyako's camera at the epicenter, or root cause, of her childhood anxieties.
The trio have now released a video for the song that does not feature Scotty himself, nor any other allusions to pro wrestling.
Meanwhile, the paintings' titles are peppered with allusions to nurses—those archetypal female caregivers—forcing the viewer to confront stereotypes associated with femininity.
"Sisters" moves quickly, and the less practiced reader may be slower to discern a narrative trajectory that leans on allusions to other works.
Its allusions to politics, lobbyists and other tropes are a diversion from the troubling new State Education Department guidelines that are its subject.
Each song offers its own gantlet of musical leaps and verbal allusions, though they keep circling back to personal breakups and societal breakdowns.
"Black Panther the Album" is very nearly as densely packed — with ideas, allusions and ambitions — as one of Mr. Lamar's official solo albums.
For years, people have talked about your songs as though they're puzzles, full of clues and allusions, but always avoiding a clear meaning.
"Air Above Mountains, Unknown Pleasures," Mr. Jafa's second show at Gavin Brown, is altogether different — a dense orchestration of artworks, subjects and allusions.
Elkin's inimitable language is an exuberant blend of high allusions and colloquial registers, as bounce-and-pop as it is stop-and-go.
The document was riddled with sarcasm, apparent red herrings and allusions to online meme culture, suggesting an internet-driven evolution of nationalist hatred.
Helen Mirra's complex weavings reverberate; Magalie Comeau's monochromes have architectural allusions; and Jennifer Wynne Reeves's work speaks in a voice shaped by Facebook.
The charge recalls the starring role of hate speech -- and repeated allusions to violence -- that have characterized Trump as a candidate and President.
I remember being completely awestruck by his provocative and gruesome photographs, complete with nudity, allusions to Christianity and traditional Chinese culture, and bondage.
Today the sport is popular in all three, but the piece begins with allusions to its introduction by Westerners into the two Asian countries.
In the windows that line the street, Weiwei has created 10 vignettes that mingle the wondrous creatures alongside a contemporary storyline with autobiographical allusions.
Calvin Harris and John Newman's highly-anticipated song, "Olé" has dropped, and it's already making waves for its allusions to a certain music superstar.
While Mr. Adjaye is known for incorporating local designs into his buildings, the poetry of the cathedral's allusions to indigenous traditions raises the bar.
There's a ton there to analyze in terms of, say, the religious allusions, which ranged from Judeo-Christian to Hindu to Renaissance era-art.
That means they can capture lots of relevant phrases and even allusions to get to the heart of what users think about different apps.
Outlandish dreamscapes now structure the narrative, full of dire allusions to the characters' pasts and futures, drawing out the darker regions of their psyches.
There are surface nods, like a shared title card font color and dialogue allusions (a character refers to getting lost in a hedge maze).
B.R. This is string-band music in the digital era, with riffs like loops and allusions to fiddle tunes, dance music and deep gospel.
Your scholarly article "Streets of Rome: The Classical Dylan" unpacks a less noted aspect of his lyrics — allusions to ancient Greek and Roman literature.
Frequent allusions from an unauthorized source have intimated that the document will have an important influence on the future attitude of Japan toward China.
His abusive use of pardons so far, and his allusions of implementing it to protect his allies constitute an unprecedented threat to our democracy.
There are allusions to Edvard Munch and Odilon Redon in the physiognomy of her characters, but psychic despair is replaced with a leering despondency.
The secrets often tumble out after the characters check into their rooms amid the jump cuts, flashbacks and cinephile allusions (Kubrick's "The Killing," etc.).
Mr. Thurber ups the ante with cinematic allusions ("The Lady From Shanghai") that feel like reviewer bait, and wouldn't you know, I took it.
They pack their lyrics with geographically specific references and cultural allusions, offering no concessions to the white American audiences that have nonetheless embraced them.
"We've heard allusions to many of the things that are in this letter, but not the details," said Schneider in an interview with CNN.
The 1968 Broadway production made waves by including nudity, featuring allusions to drug use and homosexuality, and with its treatment of the American flag.
"Paris 1919," the best known of his solo records, from 1973, is wry, expansive, and playful, featuring an assortment of literary and historical allusions.
Ms. Ward, with 14 years in the legislature, made no allusions to the current tensions between the police and black communities in her measure.
The viruses were all strains of hepatitis B. • Childish Gambino's provocative new music video for "This Is America" is dense with allusions and messages.
Admirers of his playing appreciated how he drew out allusions to music's past in contemporary scores, while conveying the radical elements of old music.
Some artworks tell jokes — Gavin Turk's "Core" (2005) is an apple core sculpture made of oil paint on bronze — and others make historical allusions.
For all its allusions and tricks, "Mason & Dixon" argues against the subjective divisions we create between each other, whether by lines or by walls.
It's fast and hard-edged and packed with allusions to sports, from rope-jumping to horse racing, and to tango, the cakewalk and tap.
The events in Iraq also prompted allusions to the 2012 attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, where Ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed.
Trump has made scattered allusions to the emails, but has yet to drill down on any of the messages during appearances on the stump.
As with Mulleady's giant in the central painting, allusions to folk tales serve to draw viewers into familiar terrain culled from childhood and stories.
The eighth part of the new "Twin Peaks" is especially replete with such allusions, to many films easily available to revisit on streaming video.
You might get lost in its allusions and references, particularly if you're not up-to-date on your Sophocles, Old Testament tales or Woolf.
Today, the Miller House is thought to be one of Girard's greatest extant works, and is emblematic of his allusions to fantasy and magic.
On a Fox Sports segment, former UFC contender Chael Sonnen made allusions that McGregor will be wholeheartedly targeting a Mayweather matchup as his next endeavor.
Biden's remarks to the Center for a New American Security didn't mention the real estate mogul by name, but the allusions to Trump were plain.
McQueen's allusions to experiencing a "sinister" time with sex, for instance, further described as a moment when he was finding himself, are not probed further.
The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin isn't easy going for the casual reader, peppered as it is with unfamiliar proper names and allusions.
That show had its own political allusions, lampooning the religious police and other aspects of Saudi society—humour that felt like a despairing rearguard action.
These allusions generate some knowing laughs that are soon forgotten, while suggesting that Shakespeare's skill was less as a writer than as an attentive listener.
Their only full-length, Agony Planet—also released on 2MR was riddled with allusions to alien encounters, even a psychedelic-induced abduction experience at Berghain.
Pretty without pandering, it contains fleeting allusions to folk music and sends the cellist on an excursion into the spidery upper harmonics of the instrument.
On Wednesday, Mr. Cruz garnered raucous cheers for a stump speech peppered with allusions to New York politics, including debates over fracking and charter schools.
His infamous feud with Fox News commentator Megyn Kelly was full of gender-based insults and allusions to menstruation that turned off some female voters.
Trump's repeated allusions to violence during his speeches and controversial platform have spurred protests and physical confrontation between his supporters, his critics, and law enforcement.
It includes praise for the female form and oblique allusions to Brazil's polarized politics, which some hope he can ease with his consensus-building manner.
Allusions jumped out: for example, an echo of the pummelling final bar of Strauss's "Elektra" as Bess goes off to New York with Sportin' Life.
Shows like The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones have certainly made allusions, but only in the last few years has the subtlety washed away.
Such allusions seem intended to send up that vacuous blockbuster, whose non-songs and bizarre sets are periodically enlivened by muscular acrobatics and outlandish costumes.
Mr. Ruby's gritty pastiche of graffiti techniques and allusions to prison surveillance jump-started his metamorphosis into a mercurial art star of the highest order.
At the same time, and despite repeated allusions to the Holocaust, Ohler says nothing about the well-documented link between Nazi genocide and alcohol abuse.
Inside, there were allusions to mysterious new Apple products—one of which could be an augmented reality headset—as well as some pretty pedestrian office injuries.
Fans of the video games will find a host of allusions, but there's plenty to please any moviegoer who can't tell a Sega from a Switch.
Newspaper caricatures, by contrast, need to be immediately accessible, though of course some of Rogers's contemporary references and allusions to life in Pittsburgh can be obscure.
It is perhaps unsurprising then, that allusions to rising waters can be found across the Venice Biennale this year, as well as among the collateral events.
But the allusions to seat belts (restraint), rearview mirrors (distance), and the physics of spinning wheels (life cycle) don't require under-the-hood knowledge to appreciate.
With those eyes, you'd miss the obvious allusions to an all-black congregation of nine being shot by a white Dylann Roof in Charleston in 2015.
Even on "Not Abel" with its wavering strings and constantly-changing pace and reworked biblical allusions, Hop Along seem to be following their own emotional momentum.
Mr. Nichols, whose fondness for high-stakes boys-adventure stories was especially evident in the Mark Twain-inflected "Mud" (2013), plays with various allusions and possibilities.
Taking place 34 years after the events of the original, the first episode of "Watchmen" has numerous references and subtle allusions to the 1986 graphic novel.
It is beautifully written, with many allusions to black music and culture — including the everyday poetry of the African-American community that begs to be heard.
Walkers, as its title might suggest to the pop-culture munchers among us, is meta-minded — stocked with allusions, doublings, and an expanding hierarchy of meaning.
Of all the sets of references and allusions in a book built out of them, Joyce seemed particularly obsessed with his detailed invocation of 1904 Dublin.
Movie allusions and Andrew Garfield's hard-working star turn as a Los Angeles slacker is about all that holds together this labyrinthine, wildly self-satisfied mystery.
A web of allusions, partial memories and teasingly Cubist fragments weaves through the stories and into the earlier novel, fortified by recurring images and memories. Look!
Mr. Slive was known for peppering his annual kickoff addresses at media days with allusions: to Mark Twain and "Star Wars," James Baldwin and Nelson Mandela.
My knowledge of American music is dilettante, which feels like a handicap when confronting the novel's multiple allusions — some overt, some oblique — to the American songscape.
Her costume, a-shimmer in crystals, was created with Grace Wales Bonner, a London designer whose work in the past has been rife with Afrofuturist allusions.
They're tinged with cosmic melancholy rather than battered, rust-colored allusions; their melodies are designed to be translucent, light enough to float away like little hallucinations.
So, while allusions to writers like Henrik Ibsen and Knut Hamsun might be familiar to non-Norwegians, others like Alexander Kielland and Hans Jæger require Googling.
Instead they made lose allusions to an embargo—which is when companies (as well as security researchers and often journalists) withhold information until an agreed upon time.
"It was as funny as always, as as surreal, looping through word games and allusions and all the usual stuff we did," Eno said of the email.
Most of these allusions arrive during her vino bianchi-drenched arguments with Bethenny, where she would randomly bring up her breakup, no matter the topic at hand.
Instead, it follows Britney as she prepared to promote her next album, Circus, with occasional allusions to her "bad" years and sobering references to her everyday reality.
The allusions to interactive theater are apt, but it does one further—by requiring you to actively investigate, or the play will not go on without you.
Grande's most recent tweet — the one right above her Wicked quotes/allusions to that massive rock on her finger — shows nothing but an emoji of a cloud.
These are the most obvious allusions of how Grande worked through the aftermath of the bombing, but there's also a much more understated tribute to the ordeal.
I saw no mention of the Affordable Care Act in the game, but Mae only makes broad allusions to a therapist she saw when she was younger.
This can be seen not only in Trump's admiration for Jackson, but also his frequent allusions to military generals like John Pershing, George Patton, and Douglas MacArthur.
During the campaign López Obrador did not have much to say about press freedom, and his transition team has so far made few allusions to the issue.
The dialogue, while sometimes frisky and funny (and bizarrely studded with allusions to movies and plays), is also overwritten and often seems to be going in circles.
Cavell's sentences were alive with allusions in hectic smart-alecky self-mocking prose that seem closer in spirit to a Marx Brothers movie than a philosophic tome.
PARIS — The Chinese-French conceptual artist Huang Yong Ping is known for fusing complex multicultural allusions into forms that are easy to recognize but hard to interpret.
There are so many references and small allusions to the series that if you haven't given it a watch in years, you may be a bit confused.
Like his blandly conventional appearance, his wide-ranging allusions to European literature upended the idea that Brazil was a place of mystical forests or man-eating serpents.
In the letter, Taubert praised Bowie's final album, "Blackstar," for its "references, hints and allusions" and "good-bye message" that coincided with the singer's death at home.
While her palette shifts in abrupt transitions from crystal cool to nearly nuclear, the allusions to her binary identity register as the steady hand in her work.
Game of Thrones dominates television, political pundits proudly reference Harry Potter to explain current geopolitical situations, and allusions to the occult are ubiquitous in hipster millennial culture.
And the video itself delivered—its five and a half minutes are chock-full of star cameos (Hello, Kris Jenner!) and allusions for Grande stans to unpack.
There are other occasional allusions to animal or human life in her work, as in a painting that is currently leaning against the wall of her studio.
The story's Cold War allusions and Berlin setting provide an apt — or maybe too cute — framework for a story of alternate worlds suddenly developing side by side.
Trump combined lies about his political opponents — Democrats who need to be investigated (for made-up scandals) — with allusions to a patriotic, violent response by ordinary citizens.
The manifold connections and allusions would now be instantly visible via hyperlinks, and the common reader would be able to appreciate the infinite recesses of Joyce's brilliance.
Western readers may find the allusions frustratingly indirect, but Kadare has accustomed himself to telling his tales slantwise, even in a post-totalitarian era where anything goes.
With their insets and clearly defined sections, Reed's paintings unify a surface of diverse elements and layers, while extending their allusions to include screens of all kinds.
Reflecting on the numerous allusions to "reason of state" that crept into White House discourse after Watergate, she notes how the term became synonymous with national security.
The memoir, at once elliptical, cerebral and peppered with literary allusions, sometimes lacks the visceral edge inevitable in an observer locked out of the couple's drug den.
There are allusions to unhappiness in the writers' room because of Stewart's autocratic rule, with one producer saying "plenty of people" would describe Stewart as a tyrant.
The artist's own memories are also incorporated—floral patterns from her grandmother's kitchen tablecloth, for example, or allusions to the post-glacial landscapes of her native Poland.
In a conversation with Hyperallergic at the gallery, Cruz referred to his upbringing as a devout Catholic, and the delicate allusions to his religion in his paintings.
Figurative allusions are scarce in this show (and I'm not one to go around looking for them); more common are landscape references, inadvertent though they may be.
The show is replete with references to American football, demonstrating how rich an area of inquiry it can be (though there are also allusions to other sports).
QAnon — which began relatively simply as a conspiracy theory about the Mueller investigation — now includes references and allusions to the Pizzagate conspiracy theory and "false flag" mass shootings.
But in action… none of it bothers me, and I've never quite been able to put a finger on why that is, besides vague allusions to subjective taste.
We couldn't find any further Twin Peaks allusions in the lyrics to this song by the Teutonic thrashers, but the title alone is sufficient cause for inclusion here.
He talked about shooting someone on Fifth Avenue and not losing any followers; he engaged in attacks on his opponent, Hillary Clinton, which included allusions to her assassination.
Having exhausted the more obscure—and therefore more reassuring—allusions to faith amongst those subgenres, we seem to finally be recognizing the straight up joys of gospel disco.
"Howl" (2003/2013) directly references both Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" (1893) and Allen Ginsberg's epic poem, and ultimately that overload of allusions collapses on its own weight.
Burying self-referential allusions in the background and merrily poking viewers till they bruise, The Square at times feels more like longform performance art than a narrative film.
Lahger, who is also known online by the names "Old Hag" and "Witch in the Woods," occasionally includes allusions to her and her husband's Gnostic spiritual practice, Thursatrú.
Allusions to non-Western cultures pop up, from patterned African masks to abdomen cowrie shells like those on Kongo figures to bandaged bodies that recall Egypt's mummified dead.
More likely, conspiracy theorists are seeing what they want to in the compositions' charged imagery, rather than Tanguma's overt allusions to the dangers of war and climate change.
The doll allusions are obvious, yes, but effective, both in making the connection to feminine beauty standards and being creepy as hell when used as they are here.
Obama's last name is never heard in Barry—unlike Southside With You, it avoids casting obvious allusions to the present but is rife with moments that suggest multitudes.
"My Golden Days," the latest film from the French director Arnaud Desplechin, is a constantly shifting catalogue of allusions to literature, film — even some of Desplechin's previous work.
Also, that line of thinking would imply that the movie takes a sympathetic tone in its allusions to foreigners invading our way of life, which it does not.
Now, those allusions mostly appear within images of water or the body, which—while formless and temporary, respectively—are easier to hold on to than a belief system.
So if you can't wait until 2018 for the next film, or just want to catch up on the references and allusions you may have missed, read on.
While their dialogue is stocked with allusions to redemption, their despair is such that the place they wish to "pass over" is revealed as the valley of death.
But in his treatise "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture," published in 1966, Mr. Venturi argued that ornament, historical allusions and even humor had a place in modern architecture.
Even "If You Were Born Today," a song thick with biblical allusions ("If you were born today / We'd kill you by age eight") was more depressed than creepy.
A few of the scrolls make learned allusions to religious and literary texts: Tamura Suio's "Courtesan and Elephant" (1716), for example, references Yoshido Kenko's Essays in Idleness (c.
A photograph of Keyser with the same basket hangs adjacent to the piece, one of very few allusions in the exhibit to the humans associated with these objects.
In conversations about police violence, allusions to "black on black crime," carrying the false implication that black people break the law more often, would float to the top.
Simple logic, homey phrases, ironic biblical allusions and well-timed crescendos and pauses made him adept at solidifying the support of the committed and winning over the skeptical.
Speaking to reporters after the debate, Feinstein laughed when asked whether she was bothered by De León's frequent allusions to her age and her long tenure in Washington.
But this document is distinctive in being riddled with sarcastic language, deliberate red herrings and allusions to online meme culture, suggesting an internet-driven evolution of nationalist hatred.
While she drew fire for disrespect, some of the criticisms included digs about her spreading her legs and raunchy allusions to oral sex, Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton.
Eliot's poem is renowned for its fragmentation — in addition to being broken into five sections, it's also filled with a rich range of voices, allusions, imagery, and scenes.
There are subtler allusions as well: E.T. is evoked in Eleven's ghostly Halloween costume, similar to the sheet used to disguise Elliot's alien pal as his little sister Gert.
In the era of possible Trumpian collusion, these allusions are a reminder of the massive geopolitical transformation the world has undergone even since the era of the first Expendables.
And he did so in his usual antic style, matching and mixing allusions from a broad range of sources, from fairy tales to science, from the Bible to Shakespeare.
Indonesian readers quickly discovered the allusions, and Facebook user Haykal Al-Qasimi sent a public letter to Marvel explaining the references and asking the company to address the controversy.
At Friday night's recording of the comedy talent show, the audience, many in their 20s and 30s, laughed and cheered at references and winking allusions to his presidential bid.
During an interview with CNBC that airs Monday, her father Ren, who is known for using military allusions during speeches, asked an aide to hand him a Huawei phone.
Beyoncé's "Halo" Complete with tender caresses and allusions to bridal wear, Beyoncé's I Am… Sasha Fierce-era video still makes us cry and smile uncontrollably at the same time.
Of course, there are plenty of dudes who just eat regular ole nut mixes, and many, many women who enjoy beer without having allusions to high heels on them.
Biblical allusions aside, Faust 3 also playfully alludes to a wide range of material, including Shakespeare, Billie Holiday, Christmas carols, Roman history, Yeats, Donne, and of course Goethe's Faust.
Mr. Dylan has often sprinkled literary allusions into his music and cited the influence of poetry on his lyrics, and has referenced Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine and Ezra Pound.
Like the most enduring animation series, the writing in "Beat Bugs" is crafted to appeal to children as well as to their parents, with plenty of allusions to lyrics.
Allusions to commodification and exchange, rest and activity, and pleasure and guilt are plentiful in this uncanny, refreshing exhibition, as is a recurring concern with the experience of art.
" In her speech, she made several pointed allusions to Trump, saying, "people in power are trying to convince us that the villain in our American story is each other.
Given the novel's sheer quantity of allusions, some readers may feel that one kind of artifice has been banished only for another to come in through the library door.
Although Hoganson's history does not proceed much beyond World War I, it seems in conversation with our contemporary moment (there are many sly allusions to building, or desiring, "walls").
And I loved the way a caraway brioche, pickled mustard seeds and cucumbers completed the deli allusions begun by a foie gras terrine with layers of soft, smoky pastrami.
Mr. del Paso's sprawling novels were based in history and rife with digressions, allusions and metaphors stacked on metaphors; his sentences could stretch on for a page or more.
Working with a hitmaking producer, Greg Kurstin (Adele, Kelly Clarkson), he makes every track a glossy tour de force, with quick-changing arrangements and ever more encyclopedic pop allusions.
There are allusions to charging tanks and the impermanence of life, punctuated by bright chords redolent of rave anthems and the shrill tone you get from disconnected phone numbers.
He was, perhaps, making a performance of how problematic translation can be, particularly for a songwriter like Mr. Zé who builds tricky wordplay and local allusions into his lyrics.
With just the slightest bit of effort, a boring conversation is suddenly filled with allusions to Siberian graveyards and stolen flamethrowers, polar bears' toenails and Georgia asphalt in July.
His hit single and official mixtape, "#SantanaWorld," released July 18, are rife with allusions to his own legal status and those of his collaborators in the group Daytona Boyz.
Owens also offered more subtle allusions to athleticism, namely sporty tank tops and puffy comforter capes that resembled the foil insulation blankets doled out to runners after a race.
Now that we've gotten through the more grounded readings of the movie, let's dive headfirst into what the many mythical and literary allusions sprinkled throughout The Lighthouse could mean.
The parallels between the Greek story and Ms. Acogny's situation are slightly forced, as are the allusions to the migrant crisis in Europe and a final note of forgiveness.
The fringe U.K. vocalist and producer has typically left bewildered fans on their own to make sense of the scattershot allusions, subversions, and red herrings that litter his work.
Grace Talusan's memoir, "The Body Papers," finds unexpected points of connection between her experiences of abuse, immigration and genetic testing; the allusions she makes are powerful yet delicately drawn.
His paintings offer a rich stew of allusions to the power of natural forces, humankind's relationship to the animal world, primeval spirits, and the irrepressible fecundity of the earth.
And the Fall found and built a loyal audience that welcomed the music's corrosive intent while it parsed the spite, mockery, allusions and non sequiturs in Mr. Smith's lyrics.
The two channels on either side feature multilayered drawn landscapes of foliage, as well as historical drawings and photos which include allusions to the Darfur genocide and Sally Hemings.
Another fan argued that both the video and the campaign are allusions to the story of Romulus and Remus, the mythological founders of Rome, and thus fair game for inspiration.
Wheeler appropriates Faure's orientalized vision of the paintings, with its many allusions to exotic colors, precious stones, and glistening metals, almost as if the MoMA curator had invented the metaphors.
Below are examples of how the novel's been referenced since 29, showing an evolution in its political usage, from vague allusions to government overreach, to debates about mass government surveillance.
The props are the only blatant allusions to danger, but other suggestions of crisis emerge in the choreography itself, as the dancers combine emergency hand signals with more graceful gestures.
Similarly, some of the most insightful allusions to Brexit in fiction refer to it only subliminally, maybe even subconsciously, rather than placing the campaign and its aftermath in the foreground.
I spoke with James Mangold earlier this week about the trouble with comic-book films, Logan's timely political allusions, and capturing the film's frantic sense of action on the screen.
Artistic allusions to rising waters can be found across the Venice Biennale this year, and they strike home with a particular power given the ongoing destruction of the natural world.
Aside from those brief allusions, the night was a largely self-laudatory one for Mr. Trump, who has a comfortable lead in polls here and picked up a key endorsement.
That said, there are allusions in the teaser to the Marvel Cinematic Universe specifically, so expect those films to form the narrative backbone of whatever Square's studios are working on.
Unfortunately, this one has so few far-reaching ramifications that both Mr. Philbrick and the jacket copy writer have thrown in allusions to Shakespeare as a means of elevating it.
Other allusions include a popular comparison between a Winnie the Pooh car toy image and the Chinese leader presiding over a military parade from the back of a moving vehicle.
As a Catholic, goodness knows I didn't know any of the biblical allusions that were buried in Frederick Douglass or "The Grapes of Wrath," but my Jehovah's Witness students did.
The novel is invested in its literary allusions, which haunt the narrative almost as relentlessly as the past haunts the main characters, Soledad and her twin children, Isabel and Ulises.
With allusions to Plutarch and Shakespeare, Bannon's speech was yet another shot across the bow of the Republican establishment, which Bannon has pledged to take on in 2018 and beyond.
In that sense, the works are less successful as indicators of the Iranian coup of 1953, but they certainly attest to Behbahani's imaginative allusions to the beauty of Persian gardens.
The visual and musical allusions are eclectic enough that nobody is likely to feel left out, and everybody is likely to feel a little lost from time to time. Nostalgia?
His new work, despite its seeming discontinuity of formal vocabulary and its allusions to the built environment, retains that deliberate bluntness and is no less awkward for being distinctly architectural.
If his unadorned high-art allusions can make him an acquired taste, his latest farce, "The Son of Joseph," is his most accessible film since "The Living World," from 2003.
Some of these were familiar Lynchian fixations, including the allusions to "The Wizard of Oz," with its different yet familiar alternative world, those terrifying vortexes and all those ruby slippers.
Whether you do will largely depend on your enjoyment of (or tolerance for) narrative ellipses, and your curiosity about how these faces, quotes, allusions and interstitial moments together create meaning.
" The lyrics, Mr. Bixler-Zavala said, are suffused with allusions to the novelist Philip K. Dick, "because his vision is the most paranoid, the most close to reality right now.
He now specializes in — and has patented — a process of covering large wooden disks with gold leaf, then projecting slow motion films infused with allusions to old masters onto them.
The father of seven children and fond of speaking in biblical allusions, he rose to prominence more than a decade ago as the Republican Party's co-chairman of Catholic outreach.
The defense team said Stone's allusions to a Godfather film and statements such as "prepare to die" are typical of a long history of outlandish banter between the two men.
But on Sunday, Trump completely undermined Tillerson's allusions to behind-the-scenes diplomacy in a stunning series of tweets: ...Save your energy Rex, we'll do what has to be done!
When it comes to the show's supernatural monster, 1980s allusions are a particularly limiting lens through which to examine the complex threads of its science fiction genetics — starting with its name.
Allusions to Classical mythology and the animal kingdom were most likely attempts by promoters to play up to stereotypes about black fighters, and to present them as somehow foreign and exotic.
In his remarks at the summit, Obama peppered his address with allusions to Clinton, at one point calling for more women in corner suites -- noting the Oval Office itself would qualify.
McGregor gave further allusions of extending the jurisdiction of his boxing eligibility by applying for a license in Nevada, since Mayweather has competed in the state for his last 14 fights.
So, while lyrical allusions to her home and her past are strewn across the record, the often lonely intensity of living in Manhattan in one's late teens still hangs over Clean.
It's also a lousy argument, one that relies on conflation—that the trolls and Sanders's base are one and the same—and a series of counterfactuals and half-baked historical allusions.
Without the allusions and nods and winks and endless circling back most of us would be left with a corrosive silence that'd suck the foam off every pint on the table.
But it was the rotund, courtly son of an Austrian classics teacher who was the dazzler-in-chief, inexhaustibly unearthing facts, analogies, literary allusions and personal connections from his elephantine memory.
T2 is a kaleidoscope of clever visual tricks—spot-on allusions to Raging Bull, myriad callbacks to specific shots from Trainspotting—that demonstrates that Boyle remains a master of kinetic busyness.
So as the first months of President Trump's administration and the protests against his policies unfold, you might start to see more direct allusions and reactions to it on narrative television.
Late Sunday, Mongeau posted an Instagram Story of herself singing a parody of "Thank U, Next" by Ariana Grande, replacing the lyrics with allusions to her own topsy-turvy love life.
Padgett wears his knowledge lightly so that the real delight of Motor Maids across the Continent comes from reading it, and not from knowing literary history or catching all the allusions.
It would be less embarrassing if he was posting videos where people pissed in his mouth or making sly pro-Trump allusions to reporters or taking 125th place in Scrabble tournaments.
He speaks in simple analogies, making allusions to the most universally recognized parts of the Constitution and the Bible, cuing the audience to cheer by speaking faster and faster and louder.
Nothing he says seems particularly new or revelatory—it's mostly his standard stump speech, a political sermon filled with right-wing rallying cries and other allusions to God and the Constitution.
As usual, there were a lot of genius allusions to the musical theme of the passage — I count ÉTUDES, HENDRIX, LAMENT, OCTET, PRESTO, VERDI and a few others among this group.
Last year's sleeper trend with its treacly allusions to butter churns, quilting bees and starchily kitted-out sister wives, has given way to something less like a costume, less aggressively maidenly.
The show, a tragic love story with prescient allusions to contemporary geopolitics, has been in development for more than a decade, and is now running at the National Theater in London.
Yet "The Waste Land" begins with a clutter of Decadent elements: quotations from "Tristan und Isolde," allusions to Verlaine and Mallarmé, chatter about tarot cards and séances, intimations of vegetation cults.
The play's few poignant allusions to the Holocaust are meant to prompt young viewers to inquire about real-life histories of people like Mr. Levin and Mr. Reich, Mr. McEneaney said.
Out of the Blue In Maggie Nelson's "Bluets," waves of allusions to art and literary history part to reveal depths of heartbreak in 240 prose poems — devotionals to the color blue.
Condemnations of his comments about wages being too high were far more common in speeches during the convention's first three days, as were allusions to his mockery of a disabled reporter.
These recent mural pieces also proved to loosen up a practice that was tightly closed, in terms of its self-referential methodology, to allusions of the figure and of the written word.
Matthew's story already had allusions to Carrie — in Episode 7, he acted a lot like Margaret White — and here's another: Margaret also tried to kill her daughter when Carrie was a baby.
Her critical style is as immersed in literature as it is in philosophy — an encyclopedic range of historical allusions, personal experience, and deep reading, which she expressed with elegance, simplicity, and force.
Longstreth's 2005 release, The Getty Address, is an experimental pop opera loosely based on Don Henley with allusions to ancient Mexico and post-9/11 America tossed in there for good measure.
But it's hard to look at his recent string of alt-right allusions as existing in a vacuum during a moment when neo-Nazi politics has abruptly jumped into the international spotlight.
Digging through fan theory pages for Twin Peaks or Westworld to see people digging through shot sequences and visual allusions for the skeleton key that makes it all perfectly logical and crystalline.
The family moved in her middle and high school years to Montreal after her mother got a medical research job there, but many of the speakers made allusions to her Oakland roots.
The Shakespearean allusions—Lear-like King with his three daughters; shipwrecked sailors delivered, " Tempest " style, into a tiny fiefdom—and the absence of any modern technology contribute to the novel's timeless languor.
It alleged, through a series of allusions, tangential facts, and seeming misdirections, that law enforcement officials had abused their power in obtaining a surveillance warrant against former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.
In a work like "Untitled (The one who will bring vengeance)" (2019) Gilbert tacitly infuses the oil-painted image with allusions to liberation theology and the Virgin Mary as Aztec mother goddess.
Think pieces, blog essays, books (from bios to queer theory works like J. Jack Halberstam's Gaga Feminism) erupt around her videography and discography, interpreting and situating the densely encrusted references and allusions.
The right tends to go for pithy but broad slaps across the face, while the left seems to go for too-cute-by-half allusions or apt but un-sexy descriptive labels.
His highly photogenic plates — luscious duck breast in subtle pipian verde, translucent scallop aguachile, rich chicken confit in mole rojo — make fond allusions to his homeland while showcasing his precision and wit.
But Wayne is just as effective when her allusions are to the quotidian, like a cardboard portfolio cushioned by doggy pee pads leaning on a painted ultramarine quilted seat in "Contra" (2017).
Renata Adler's wry, thrillingly associative novel "Pitch Dark" ranges over political events, romantic hurts and literary allusions, each of her scenes — with animals, among friends, between lovers — holding a measure of heartbreak.
Han incorporates flowery language and allusions to 80s movies in the text to assure readers that Lara Jean is still the sweet and girly individual who loves to bake treats and daydream.
The only allusions to the building's dark past are embedded deep within the restaurant's extensive cocktail menu, where tipplers in the know might notice the B Sample — tequila, sambuca and Tabasco sauce.
The works have innumerable visual and verbal puns, juxtaposing high culture references like Salvador Dalí, Gustave Courbet, David Smith, and Louis Nevelson, against allusions to pop celebrities Marilyn Monroe and Barbara Streisand.
Despite his repeated allusions to the state as an important base for him, he also hasn't held quite as many events as other frontrunners, a proxy for face time, in the state.
At times like this I questioned my distaste for the man and his work — many of his Latin names are thoughtful and carry physical and quantitative characteristics, metaphor and allusions to myth.
Yellow Earth takes place in the fictional eponymous town in North Dakota, on the Three Nations Native American reservation, prior to the Standing Rock movement, but with allusions to this future event.
By then nearing his own middle age, Rumi went searching for him and eventually turned that search inward, infusing the lines of his masterwork, the "Masnavi," with allusions to his spiritual teachings.
But there was possibility for substance to arise from Isle of Dogs' ocean-crossing style — and unfortunately, it feels like it was buried under a heap of aesthetic allusions and recycled beats.
Produced with Patrick Kelley, the videos are set inside a black-and-white world of bespoke props and costumes where ancient Greek mythology mingles with allusions to art history and popular culture alike.
A horror movie in miniature, eerie and tense throughout, "Teddy Perkins" reveals itself slowly as a musing on generational trauma and artistic genius, heavy on allusions — and eventually, explicit references — to Michael Jackson.
Opera and theatre were his passions, and he loved to drop classical allusions as well as names; back in Newport during his second trial, greeted by his labradors, he felt "like Ulysses returning".
For all its allusions to nature, "Composition #25" defines a specific and original form — a unique approach to materials and space that should be seen in the same company as Asawa and Noguchi.
The Fall create a "tissue of allusions", singing about "men with butterflies on their faces" and making a thick montage of literary references and self-referential sounds, like the hiss of recording cassettes.
Even before the first of the novel's ­multiple allusions to it, I was reminded of "The Corrections," Jonathan Franzen's saga of three siblings struggling to get by at the turn of the millennium.
One of the show's funniest monologues was his recitation of a lengthy, fictional music review, replete with academic jargon and bogus literary allusions that sounded authentic until it morphed into pretentious absurdist nonsense.
He was dressed casually, with only subtle allusions to his trendy tastes—a Supreme x TNF baseball cap, rare Nikes—and was accompanied by his mother, his manager, and a couple of friends.
His pedestals, columns, stools, chairs and sculptures, with their clean lines, allusions to the human body and affinity for hollow spaces, are all around us, the California cousins of Brancusi and Henry Moore.
In such celestial allusions lies the DNA of Heather Taylor-Johnson's quirky debut, "Jean Harley Was Here," a novel about stars and oceans and destiny, but also about bicycles and point of view.
PARELES Angst wrapped in mockery surrounded by pop-history allusions with deniable lyrics bonded to endearing melodies — yes, Weezer has released a new album called "Weezer" with a parenthetical color (The Black Album).
There will be allusions to the mansion's erstwhile bacchanalia, lounges with names like the Grotto Lounge — a nod to the notorious Jacuzzi cave that teemed with licentiousness (and eventually bacterial strains including Legionnaires').
His is an architecture that seems at first glance to exude tradition and "Japan-ness," but it turns out to be one of allusions, tricks of the eye and uncertain thresholds and limits.
Throughout the demo, however, there were allusions to different kinks, and at times it felt a bit like a D&D adventure run by someone who just learned about doms, subs, and wikiFeet.
Lyrically, the result is often closer to a Gertrude Stein poem, thick with allusions and illusions and inversions that don't make a shred of sense until you've been through them a dozen times.
Watching "I'm Not Here" doesn't bring it to life as a movie, any more than the screenplay's allusions to quantum entanglement add novelty to its fragmentary structure or its hollow insights about regret.
To celebrate this moment, Sony has generously released a teaser trailer for the film, which is really just recycled footage from the original movie with a few vague allusions to the new plot.
Eschewing traditional rallies, his campaign relied heavily on quirky social media posts to his millions of online followers, jokey posters, comedy gigs and winking allusions to the fictional president he portrays on screen.
"For the most part, he probably let the work speak for itself and let people draw conclusions and allusions from that, rather than very clearly laying out his ideas behind it," says Marrinan.
Xi Thought is a smorgasbord of sayings, slogans, historic allusions and literary references, all of which are the subject of numerous dedicated social media accounts and spin-off books explaining exactly what Xi means.
He mixes classic Pitbull party hooks with 1980s pop sounds (the musical equivalent of the spandex clothing lining many Floridians' curves), allusions to his crime-ridden 80s childhood, and discussions about contemporary political conflicts.
Almereyda himself provides narration, balancing commentary on Eggleston's work (which includes a number of allusions to curator John Szarkowski's writings on Eggleston) with anecdotes about his life and how the two of them met.
In the years that separate his monochromes of the 1960s from the gestural paintings he first made in the late 1980s, Marden assembled large, smooth rectangles of color in configurations rife with architectural allusions.
Occasionally, there are the barest allusions to pop-culture feminism through Jailbreak's character, but she ends up sticking with Gene in Princess form, ditching her cool blue alt-girl side ponytail and knit beanie.
The film's writer/director, Robin Aubert, strews crafty visual allusions to the likes of Jean Rollin's "The Grapes of Death" and the quasi-apocalyptic TV series "The Leftovers," and shows solid scare flair throughout.
After all, where else are you going to find Lil Wayne making allusions to the devil, laying out roundabout references to the color of Big Bird on Sesame Street, and rapping Notorious B.I.G. lyrics?
Or maybe it was the commander-in-chief, about to make a huge climb-down, trying to cloud the issue by feeding the appetites of conspiracy mongers with allusions to an unchecked surveillance state.
Anguished allusions to the Vietnam War and the Second World War mark his films with political passions as well; the private furies that Bergman revealed are as tenacious as those of history itself. ♦
At the same time, Things to Come is a very concrete piece of work, filled with nods and allusions to real books, movies, and pieces of music—a specificity that is the director's signature.
But it offers many instructive allusions, useful judgments and important refinements on these themes — and provides reassurance by its mere existence that someone in the author's position is grappling so earnestly with such questions.
Though the homages and allusions are not obvious, the 18-minute work, starting with elegiac strings and ending with braying brasses, has a pleasing contour and gives the orchestra a good and imaginative workout.
So too are the White House's allusions to the president's pardon authority, and even Mr. Trump's recent pardon for the deceased boxing champion Jack Johnson, who was convicted of a racist charge in 1913.
Last October, the state-run newspaper Tribuna published an article that mockingly made allusions to the extravagant trips Antonio Castro, the son of former President Fidel Castro, took to Turkey and the United States.
In the case of Bucket Detective, allusions to sexual abuse are implied for two characters—one man, one woman—but it's made clear the cult's core ideas are built on its founders sexual narcissism.
It's no longer uptown meets downtown, skater girl goes to a ball—fashion designers from Gucci to Raf Simons to Supreme to Vaquera are sending viewers on scavenger hunts of inspiration, allusions, and muses.
Here, floral allusions abound, and his tables, lighting and seating create a goth-idyllic mise-en-scène: A low bronze table, for example, is inlaid with circular turquoise glass reminiscent of floating lily pads.
Frank took apart her set-ups after photographing them; the photos, rich in suggested textures and allusions to the artist's abiding themes, are both documents of ephemeral artworks and complete, finished images in themselves.
His second inaugural address, in March 1865, was infused with biblical allusions and mentions of God, and was often called the most explicitly religious speech ever given by a president while taking the oath.
He has worked allusions to other features of the state's cuisine into the menu, which makes forays into pasta and small seafood dishes, but the pizza grill is at the center of the action.
The rabbi, Michelle S. Robinson, made only brief allusions to the tragedy in Pittsburgh; the synagogue's main Shabbat service is Saturday morning, and Senator Elizabeth Warren was set to come and deliver a prayer.
" Some of his dances took on a dark political edge, as in "Three Atmospheric Studies," in 2005, with its allusions to the Iraq War and to Lucas Cranach 's painting "Lamentation Beneath the Cross.
Biblical allusions abound, alongside references to Greek mythology (Roy spends most of his journey on a rocket named Cepheus — a major player in the myth of Andromeda and Poseidon, aka Neptune in Roman parlance).
Black Widow, also known as Natasha Romanoff and played by Scarlett Johansson, has referred to the Avengers as her family throughout the franchise, which has included only quick flashbacks and allusions to her origins.
The first single that Swift dropped from the album was "ME!" featuring Brendon Urie, and along with it came hint after hint about upcoming music and allusions to her personal life, past work and more.
Despite the Kennedy allusions, he avoided taking any explicit sides in the current presidential race; an image from a democratic debate appeared just before one from the GOP side in the slideshow of American decline.
"I used to rap super openly about really dark shit," Miller told Vulture in an interview this month, when discussing his early music and its allusions to hard drugs and the theme of dying young.
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The chain of literary allusions is a reminder that the loss of one's father — whatever the particular circumstances — is a universal fact, and that many writers have discovered their subject in the loss of home.
For a third piece, he chose (voluntarily) to respond to Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto with "Lyra," for the New York Philharmonic, having been interested in allusions to the Orpheus myth others inferred from the work.
Then Trump sat down with Henry Kissinger, who served as secretary of state under President Richard Nixon, apparently unconcerned that the photo-op could fuel already circulating allusions to the Watergate scandal in the 1970s.
" HOCA says the title acts as a subtle acknowledgement of the cultural allusions in his artworks as well as an appeal to the viewer to "contemplate assumptions of hierarchy and homogeneity in our postcolonial society.
She doesn't think of them as monsters, but she likes to exaggerate their monstrosity, to showcase their invasive power rather than just toss in a few sprigs as wistful allusions to some lost pastoral idyll.
I also could have done without the strained allusions to Donald J. Trump, Fox News and the far right, which seem to have blown in from some neighboring land until they finally reveal their connection.
Kesha's promotion of her raw new music — including op-eds she has written for publications like Rolling Stone and Mic — has relied on not-so-veiled allusions to her oppressors without mentioning Dr. Luke explicitly.
In a style that danced with literary allusions and arch rhetoric — and composed with pen and ink (he hated computers) — he produced thousands of critiques and a dozen books, mostly anthologies of his own work.
The winking allusions to Homer, and the mania to fulfill certain midcentury entertainment expectations, ensure that pressing matters of love and fidelity, pride and temptation, are, except in those arias, too blandly packaged to sting.
Rutkow is a graceful writer with a penchant for well-placed classical allusions, yet he possesses a distracting literary tic: a heavy reliance on the adverb "finally," which occasionally occurs twice on the same page.
Bourland describes herself as "an amateur artist" but a "professional-grade enthusiast," and her dedication to the subject is clear on every page: The book brims with allusions to Lucy Dodd, Laura Owens, and Marina Abramovich.
The final episode released six days after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke and a day after Mark Zuckerberg apologized for Facebook's failings on CNN — not exactly enough time to make allusions to it in the game.
There's the influence of European history in J. R. R. Tolkien's vision of Middle Earth, or the allusions to Nazism and genocide in Voldemort's pure-blood ideology, or the white colonialist narrative in Avatar, among others.
In the book, there are allusions to OASIS' massive servers in Columbus, so all the processing power is probably not coming from the headsets themselves but rather sent via 5G (or higher) network to each user.
The single and video are emotional and intimate, revealing a painful story about betrayal and hope for the future — though, as Vox's Caroline Framke points out, the allusions to Beyoncé's Lemonade detract from the song's impact.
Both contain literary allusions; Mitchell was drawn to Cohen's bookishness: Just before our love got lost you said I am as constant as a northern star and I said Constantly in the darkness Where's that at?
In the red, black, and yellow "Composition #25" (2017) Chiappa's offbeat humor, impeccable craftsmanship, and allusions to furniture made me think that he was channeling De Stilj furniture designer Gerrit Rietveld through a Dadaist's mischievous sensibility.
But the opera amplifies the farcical aspects of Wilde's comedy of errors while leaving its rich autobiographical subtext — with allusions to the homosexual double life that eventually doomed its author to prison and exile — largely unmined.
Those kind of allusions were in the script, but with Anna the connections became much clearer to me because she had gone through it in a deep way with the reactions to Skyler on Breaking Bad.
A better historical analogy for Trump Raising allusions to war leaders could also come back to damage Trump should deficiencies in his administration hamper what is shaping up to be a prolonged fight against the pandemic.
The threats also spread to Treviño's family and other associates; it was the constant allusions to violent rape, she told me, that caused her to start considering moving herself and her family out of the area.
No doubt some readers looking for steadier footholds will find the narrative too restive and ruthless for their taste, but this book rewards total immersion: Come for the inevitable Borges allusions, stay for the wild ride.
And, in collaboration with a number of photographers, including Awol Erizku, she filled the announcement with references and allusions that position her firmly at the center of a long visual tradition of mothers and of womanhood.
It's chock-full of footnotes and allusions to modern-day right-wing obsessions over everything from how "the Republican party continues to alienate their conservative base" to NSA spying and the threat of a nationalized police force.
But, then, the Arie name-drops and references and allusions came so fast and furious, I was too busy rolling my eyes permanently to the back of my head to actually keep track of anything at all.
And even as BoJack skewers the entertainment business, it also makes countless allusions to real-life projects and celebrities — some even voicing themselves, like this season's Jessica Biel and Zach Braff — in a way all its own.
Yes, it would have all of the expected flourishes, mesmerizing meditations, ear candied dialogue, cinematic allusions and instances of hyper-stylized violence that the filmmaker has become known for over the course of his 27-year career.
As a conservative interpreter of America's founding documents, he attaches importance to the allusions in those texts to God-given rights, and to the First Amendment right to practise a religion, albeit without state support or establishment.
The FBI apparently closed the case before making vague allusions to possible charges just days before the election—and then said that actually they were right the first time about not wanting to charge Clinton with anything.
It is a disturbing concoction of sadomasochism and allusions of incest (the Papin sisters were said to have been found naked in bed together after the murders took place) that sets the tone for Jamie Lloyd's production.
There are gasoline lines and a running joke about "The Waltons," but the era is evoked mainly through musical cues, details of production and costume design and allusions to other films, not all of them terribly old.
Violence and allusions to it have punctuated Mr. Trump's campaign: Punches have been thrown at his rallies, protesters have been roughed up by Trump supporters, and the candidate himself has repeatedly deployed a lexicon of physical aggression.
"It's a Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt World" has more than enough allusions and symbols for us to tease out at great length, but I like the way that it ultimately comes down to a kind of synthesis.
The kid angle makes Sonic Forces all the stranger, set in a war-torn Earth where Sonic is presumed dead, only to be found in a space prison, where allusions are made to months of horrifying torture.
Each of his works in the Biennial — and in a solo show now at David Lewis Gallery in New York — juxtaposes photos on disparate themes, set in vintage frames, creating a puzzle of ovals, rectangles, and allusions.
With wordless syllables and occasional lyrics, and vocal styles suggesting a world of allusions, the songs hinted at games and rituals, with hints of comedy, and a group embrace at the end became an affirmation of solidarity.
The poetic allusions in the last story to visual and rhetorical references earlier in the collection (and to the earlier Vernon book, though you needn't have read that one to appreciate this one) feel careful and lovely.
But the weekend melee — complete with dark allusions to billionaire donors, allegations of intellectual dishonesty and sarcastic references to political inexperience — showed how difficult that task could be if the primary becomes a prolonged and acrimonious affair.
Although it's since evolved into a massive international organization known more for its charitable work than for its ministering, the Salvation Army has never really strayed from its religious roots — or from its use of military allusions.
There are occasional topical references in these stories, snatches of pop songs or allusions to the Troubles, but many of them take place in a changeless, timeless Ireland where ancient patterns and identities are always asserting themselves.
And it may have been partly in response to this, and to her father's death at that time, that Ms. WalkingStick — an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation — introduced allusions to Native American history into her art.
In the video, Thor pals around with his new "average, everyday" flatmate Darryl Jacobson, attempts to get in touch with the feuding Iron Man and Captain America, and throws in some light allusions to the Marvel movies.
In that setting, Burnett speak-sings his way through free-associative songs that contain biblical allusions, echoes of the blues, tall tales, lovers' plaints and warnings about disinformation, the cult of personality and the encroachments of technology.
Though the account has since been deleted, it included threads like this one: The insider references to subpoenas, the legislative process, and working in Congress (as well as allusions to taking down Crooked H) prompted some additional digging.
"Alita: Battle Angel" not only invokes this trope, but also fails to allow its own hero to stand on her own without allusions to her "womanly" form when Alita gets a new, sleeker, and more sophisticated cyborg body.
" If you didn't understand that reference — to the 1962 song "The Loco-Motion," recorded by Little Eva (who really was the Goffins' babysitter) — then you won't get many of the nudging allusions that pass as jokes in "Beautiful.
The film made waves when it debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival for its not-so-subtle allusions to controversial filmmaker Woody Allen, as well as C.K.'s own commentary on sexual assault, feminism, and provocative language.
If not for the violence and allusions to the gun, policing and Black Lives Matter debates, or the references to the corrupting, evil effects of money, Gambino's "This is America" video would be considered nothing short of beautiful.
Allusions in Radiohead's artwork, online postings and stage shows suggest that "Burn the Witch" has been marinating for more than a decade, and all that deliberation has resulted in music that starts tense and grows tenser every second.
Editorial The accounts of Park Geun-hye's rise and fall have drawn on "Game of Thrones," Rasputin, classical Greek tragedy and a variety of other allusions to capture the extraordinary drama now being played out in South Korea.
For someone whose books contain frequent allusions to how lazy he is, Dyer is relentlessly productive; he is constantly undertaking something new, whether it's writing about a film by Andrei Tarkovsky or about life on an aircraft carrier.
This is an artist who annotates her own lyrics on her own Genius page, explaining metaphors and allusions (re "Three Kids No Husband": "I think [in] both choruses, what I love is the way we use the cigarette").
In another instance, Ms. Leif said, an administrator asked students to delete a message promoting a school fund-raiser at "Blaze Pizza" and "Baked Bear" — actual pizza and ice cream establishments — because of the apparent allusions to marijuana.
The characters' rapport and repartee (rapportee?) were like throwbacks to the great "Thin Man" movies, and the series cultivated such a literary vibe during its original seven-year run that websites compiled vast reading lists from its allusions.
The shadow of Ms. Lawson, a former Southern beautician who is a lifelong collector of black contemporary art, hovers over the artsy allusions in "Lemonade" to intergenerational African-American motherhood, marital strife and their family's deep Creole roots.
But if you look back at the show's first five seasons, you can find parallels to the things we already know about the 45th president, as well as allusions to what could potentially happen in the years to come.
" If you care to lean in close, there are allusions to this in Dougy's music—on the delicate "Soldier On" ("Just keep your head low / Don't think about it at all"), the sketch of a song that's "Little Boy.
At his rally on Wednesday night, he warned against political violence, but got in a few barbed allusions to Democrats (and winked at the audience about his unusually somber tone, repeatedly saying that he was on his best behavior).
Most of the news from the developer's conference wasn't too earth-shattering: there were no new apps being ported to Android, no allusions to any Apple hardware whatsoever, and Tim Cook even seemed a little off during his presentation.
There's one story in your book that stood out for me, and it didn't have any Nazi imagery or allusions to race-based slavery or anything else that would make it difficult to find the sex appeal in 2018.
The Asia Society's programming director explained the disjunctive styles and narrative strands prior to the show, and the printed program included some notes about the apparently numerous and dense allusions to the history and mythology of Islam in Indonesia.
Capture the Flag sneers and thrashes for 37 minutes, right down to its closer, "The Chalice and the Blade," in which the band takes a prehistorical approach to societal gender roles, with allusions to androcracy's barbaric usurping over gylany.
The ten essays in The Psychology of Zelda, written by various psychologists and theorists, illuminate how Link's simple, plot-driven quests are actually rife with allusions to Carl Jung's archetypes, meditations on grief, and patterns of childhood trauma resolutions.
Leading the charge against Israel initially was Egypt's military dictator, Gamal Abdel Nasser, a self-styled prophet of Arab nationalism; that ideology was a nominally secular blend of socialism, fascism and brute authoritarianism, infused with Islamic tropes and allusions.
Suggesting more than it can show, "The Black Cat" somehow eluded the moral enforcers of the Production Code despite its allusions to incest, necrophilia and human sacrifice, not to mention a black Mass staged beneath a stylized crooked cross.
In other posts from 2013, Frey also makes misogynstic and anti-Semitic remarks, and promotes far-right tropes about Christian crusaders (the mosque shooter in New Zealand made numerous allusions to those same tropes in his manifesto posted online).
If page upon page of metrically stringent and dutifully rhymed lines with clunky allusions to Wittgenstein, Derrida, Mallarmé, Althusser, Joyce, Marx, Brecht, Benjamin, Adorno and Badiou — to name a few — strikes you as illuminating, then you'll enjoy this book.
The movie's story, inspirations and allusions (Hitchcock!), though, more rightly announce it as a 20th-century artifact, one that begins when Alita's head and shoulders are found and refurbished by a paternalistic doctor, Ido (an atypically uneasy Christoph Waltz).
But unlike the posters' attempts to tell stories, Drexler hones in on the male figures, extracting them from their pop cultural homes and examining them in isolation, picking apart the allusions to character and reducing them to mere men.
From the twangy, falsetto-laden Big Star allusions of opener "I'll Be There" through the McCartney-like delicacy of "Oh, Clever Boy" up to the playfully simple "Out of the Light," Rault seems to be wide awake and grinning.
As you've probably heard, Beyoncé released a new visual album over the weekend called Lemonade, and Beyoncé fans have been in a frenzy about how her thinly veiled allusions to husband Jay-Z's extramarital affairs on the new tracks.
Take, for example, allusions to a popular Cameroonian hit song about being drunk, or the fight scenes based on the donga, a stick fight performed by the Surma people in Ethiopia, which Madiba describes as having no winners or losers.
Each candidate's Hail Mary has its own style, but they generally take two forms: hard line statements designed to appeal to their niche supporters, and allusions to Trump, either to appeal to his supporters or to mark themselves against him.
Sir Christopher Ricks, a former professor of poetry at Oxford University and one of the most famous living literary critics, wrote a book about Mr Dylan's verse with a particular focus on his allusions to T. S. Eliot and John Keats.
Prosecutors argued that by taking his own life, Hernandez forfeited his right to protection under the law, pointing to the suicide note addressed to his fiancee and found in his cell that read "You're Rich," among other allusions to his intentions.
The Body, the Blood, the Machine, released in 2006, will be the bulk of their legacy, and that's just fine—it's a witty and brilliantly paranoid response to the Bush-Cheney era, thick with biblical allusions and near-perfect pop songs.
For all of his allusions to gospel music and religious history on songs like "Ultralight Beam" and "Low Lights," there's no larger point being made here; if you're feeling charitable, you can say he's summing up his discography to date.
What should have been a high point in Kitaj's career turned into a disaster, as many English critics appeared to find a sadistic glee in being nasty and dismissive of Kitaj and his work, its heady allusions and obscure citations.
The allusions to photography make sense when considering the nature of Boersma's artistic process: "I take long walks with my camera through my hometown and major cities, and I take pictures of what impresses me the most," he explains to Creators.
Beyond Milton Nascimento's "Ponte De Areia," delivered as a twinkling lullaby, every track is an original, with some shades of influence: "Ode to Satie" broadcasts its allusions, while "Silver Hollow" has a stately melancholy that evokes Keith Jarrett, a longtime associate.
Her contradictory messages—of claiming to value Muslim Americans, followed by allusions to them having information that can thwart attacks—also doesn't help counter the Islamophobic rhetoric of GOP members who make blanket statements about all Muslims being potential threats.
The entire tapestry of the oratory was laced with nautical references, definition of the quest as exploring a new ocean and discovering lands far beyond our own conjuring allusions of every notable exploration quest pursued over the course of human history.
In terms of tone and theatricality, there were plenty of allusions — intentional or not — to crowd-movers like Coldplay, My Chemical Romance and Calvin Harris, but the show's momentum was built on Mr. Joseph and Mr. Dun's vision, charm and athleticism.
The hints of "Hansel and Gretel"—a handful of pebbles tossed off a cart "so we can find our way home"; the camp's nickname, House of Candy—are fairly subtle, but the novel channels a larger network of mythical allusions.
In the most piquant of the film's dozens of allusions, one of the central characters of "Rise and Fall" emerges from the inevitable shipwreck of the Hadley project to present himself for employment at another company, this one called Albatross Films.
In fact, the World War II analogy that is being increasingly used -- partly because it stirs cherished memories and allusions of a time when all Americans came together and triumphed -- may not be the most appropriate one for Trump's situation.
Over a long career, she has worked in various media and genres, and may be best known for her paintings and sculptures, in which abstract and figurative elements with allusions to history and myth come together to mine psychic depths.
Sisman, the author of exceptionally good biographies of Boswell, Hugh Trevor-Roper and John le Carré, here in a subsidiary role, provides copious and helpful footnotes not only uncovering Fermor's many buried literary allusions but also explaining who is who.
Sure, Mira y Lopez relies too much on rigged-up profundities and allusions to Greek myth, but the dirty secret of completing a book is sometimes you have to shift your goal from writing a masterpiece to merely pulling things off.
Roland, by contrast, lives in Mid-World, an incoherent realm of foggy woods, digital boogeymen, cinematic allusions, slavering nods to Mr. King's voluminous oeuvre and some geological formations that may cause you to uselessly flash on images from John Ford westerns.
But on Sunday, Mr. Biden declined to keep up the offensive against Mr. Buttigieg, limiting his criticism on the stump to veiled allusions to Mr. Buttigieg's failure to win over people of color and speaking broadly about the importance of experience.
Stuffed with allusions and Easter eggs for close listeners, Bleachers' songs are "supposed to sound like a person going crazy in a room alone — that's what it is," said Mr. Antonoff, who is consistently self-deprecating about his pileup of neuroses.
In the 1970s, Ms. Rama tried out Minimalism with a twist: She took strips of rubber — allusions to her father, who committed suicide after the failure of his automobile-parts factory — and flattened them into suggestive shapes on monochrome canvases.
Writers like Ambrose Bierce and Robert W. Chambers all used and borrowed allusions from one another's works of cosmic horror, which in turn made their way into Lovecraft's own fiction and were subsequently sampled by those who came after him.
While some of these The Society theories are ones you've probably speculated around yourself already (come on, we've all tried to figure out who's the father of Becca's baby), others deep dive into the some of the more hidden allusions throughout the show.
There's A LOT going on: We've got snakes, and dancing, and naked people in jagged, dangerous masks (designed by Marly Hall) trying to touch each other, and myriad other allusions to temptation and the pursuit of desire that remains just out of reach.
Yet their complexions match the profiles and images that African-American rappers have long relied on for their drug-dealer allusions, the real and make-believe kingpins with empires spanning the Caribbean to Colombia and then further down the South American continent.
Audience members know the material so well because half the humor comes from merely reproducing every ludicrous plot twist and trope from the TV show (including Zack's giant cellphone, Becky the Duck and other allusions that will be familiar to longtime fans).
Though she doesn't do it as obnoxiously or as frequently as most other celebrities do, Sedaris does occasionally post shout-outs or allusions to her friends, and they're an impressive bunch: Jennifer Aniston, Lena Dunham, Marcel Dzama, Amy Schumer, Sarah Jessica Parker.
Even for those unfamiliar with the Yoruban and Greek allusions throughout, Black life clearly "matters" here not simply for the distinctive draw of each of these characters, but for their collective strength as they pull the rug out from under our colonized consciousness.
Such allusions —along with those to his childhood memories of the comestibles unloaded on the docks of his native Piraeus — point to the myriad ways in which Kounellis's work has long eschewed the ascetic strictures attendant upon the 1960s exploration of objecthood.
It's not just that she wears badness uncomfortably, like leather pants tried on in the wrong size; for all their borrowed swagger, the songs, with their vague allusions to dive bars and lipstick marks, lack the sharp specificity of her best work.
Bishop was joyously obsessed with maps, and the four collections of poetry published in her lifetime, not counting "The Complete Poems" (1969), all made territorial allusions: "North and South" (1946), "A Cold Spring" (1955), "Questions of Travel" (1965) and "Geography III" (1976).
The formula for Marvel Comics evolved helter-skelter as Lee and Kirby poured out many monthly titles: flawed heroes, stories that mixed folklore with space opera, open-ended plots, and allegorical allusions to contemporary politics (frequently touching on the evil of discrimination).
At the time, prosecutors say, Carl Rogers told police, as well as Debra's family, that his wife had been depressed about her job at a nearby state park and had made allusions to suicide during a fight the night of her disappearance.
Theory 1: It's a facility for child abuse or sacrificeA favorite among online conspiracists, this theory combines the more fantastical elements of the Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theories, including cryptic allusions to pagan deities and underground chambers for abusing and murdering children.
But as Yussef Cole illustrates, the history of racism takes insidious forms, and in the process of trying to scrub those elements away, it unknowingly replicates the archetypes of the era, keeping allusions to those racist depictions while whitewashing their cultural origins.
The show's intelligent script and complex plotting has always set it apart from pure magician smut, but it's allusions like this that really drive home the fact that Game of Thrones is a TV show for smart adults, and not my teenage brother.
But she also cited several precedents where employees, in the course of "concerted activities regarding working conditions," exceeded the bounds of protected speech, such as accusations that a foreman was a Klansman, or making degrading allusions to a co-worker's sexual orientation.
"As things continue in this direction, the question arises whether reform and opening up will come to a halt and totalitarian rule will return," Professor Xu said in the essay, written in a densely classical style speckled with recondite phrases and historical allusions.
The word calls to mind a multitude of allusions: empty lots, our lots in life, even the biblical figure Lot, the patriarch who fled the crumbling Sodom and whose wife became a pillar of salt, utter ruin coming to an allegedly nefarious place.
Mr. Sinno, a self-described "pretentious writing snob" (his lyrics teem with allusions to Sappho and Sylvia Plath), described the students as "all extremely woke," and outlined a syllabus that includes Bertolt Brecht, Judith Butler and the French rap duo the Blaze.
The pianist Kenny Barron, a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, has a subtly instigative style, full of allusions to the broad-shouldered swing of Oscar Peterson, Hank Jones's eloquent bounce and, from time to time, the tart cubism of Thelonious Monk.
Mr. Villeneuve nods to "2001: A Space Odyssey" here and there in the astronaut-like hazmat suits, the allusions to the abyss (the humans sometimes float, as if in space) and of course the looming monoliths, one of them named Stanley Kubrick.
Warren, in her very lawyerly way of hiding behind allusions to intricacies of convention rules and delegate counts, avoided the simple form of her answer: No, the will of the Democratic voters is irrelevant unless it ends up in a delegate majority.
Central to the movie's modest pleasures is how it engages with screen history; at the same time, as the too familiar story of good men and bad, loyalty and betrayal emerges, these allusions can remind you that you're not watching Howard Hawks.
Together with the artist Machine Dazzle, whom he met around 2000 in the clubs and who designs all his costumes, Mac has created his own subgenre of drag: more poetry than clothing, bristling with juxtapositions and winks and historical and artistic allusions.
Neoconservative foreign policy views have been discredited in much of the GOP, or at least are treated with a great deal of skepticism — Haley made several allusions to ISIS and attacked President Obama's deal with Iran, but didn't say anything about, say, Syria.
Conversely, Katy Perry wearing a "Resist" armband during her Grammys performance, as she promoted her lead single "Chained to the Rhythm," with its veiled allusions about white picket fences, didn't help with her album sales and was critically panned as an inauthentic bid for relevance.
One of the show's highlights was a room full of Berman's verifax collages that placed images taken from mass media, pop culture, religion, and science into a grid of hand-held transistor radios, often with allusions to Jewish mysticism, encapsulating Berman's wide-ranging aesthetic vision.
The movie's stubborn staginess can make it difficult for you to overlook the original's literary construction: There are too many metaphorical allusions to that fence, and a supporting character named Gabriel actually comes with his own trumpet to blow in the direction of heaven.
There's no direct English translation for the word "mitate" — roughly, it means "look and compare pictures" — and its definition shifts depending on context, but it broadly refers to the use of indirect visual metaphors and allusions to lend an image multiple layers of meaning.
James Lowe conducted the New York City Opera Orchestra in an energetic reading of the score, a hodgepodge canvas of Coplandesque allusions, blues and jazz and sometimes literal accompaniments, like the swooping sounds that accompanied a drunken Ava as she vomited in the bathtub.
I asked GM's chief marketing officer, Deborah Wahl, about the moniker, and she explained that apart from the obvious allusions to concepts such as "ultimate" and "ultra," GM landed on the name because it "represented next-generation technology" and sounded both energetic and grounded.
Dialogue whips past in huge, devastating chunks, dense with pop-culture quotes, literary allusions, legal and financial jargon, elaborate and often profane metaphors (Jeffcoat's story about the role of "teasers" on his family's horse ranch is particularly juicy) and a ton of brutal bon mots.
Just like his ready-to-wear designs, which jumble elements, patterns, time periods and allusions that were seldom if ever jumbled before: pussy bows on men's shirts, babushkas atop power suits, sneakers under gowns, stripes with plaids, the old-fashioned meeting the space age.
With its time-warp soundtrack and allusions, this 10-part thriller has drawn comparisons to the streaming service's mega hit "Stranger Things" — though its creators, Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, delightedly insisted otherwise when the series debuted at the Toronto Film Festival in September.
No matter how much its supporters say that enforcement wouldn't be dogmatic, the order provokes inevitable allusions to authoritarian regimes of the past that imposed their own architectural marching orders, and dredges up images of antebellum America, when classicizing Federal architecture was all the rage.
The hedge fund later disclosed what had been in that missive: strange insinuations that Mr. Singer had embarrassed himself at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, and allusions to a Native American feather headdress and a "Singin' in the Rain" performance in a public fountain.
As in Star Wars, Harry Potter or Avatar: The Last Airbender (probably the most analogous series), there are so many side characters, mysterious subplots and allusions to pre-book history that readers accustomed to simpler narratives might end up with a case of whiplash.
In a rambling six-page letter addressed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Trump weaved together a tapestry of lies, self-pity and warped allusions to history, in an effort to craft for himself a mantle of innocence on the eve of his likely impeachment.
In regular Hallmark Channel films, violence is so seldom seen that even allusions to it can be shocking—such as in "From Friend to Fiancé," from 2018, when a party scene at a paintball range features a shot of people wielding semiautomatic paintball guns.
He launches into a series of sly allusions to contemporary art failing to be critical or revolutionary, but rather being placating and self-serving instead, and I can't help but think of other professional provocateur Ai Weiwei and the crowd-pleasing work of Yue Minjun.
President Obama's final State of the Union address Tuesday night was notable both for its allusions to at least four Republican presidential primary candidates—Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Jeb Bush—and for the relative extent to which it concerned itself with each one.
More than a year since the debut of Beyoncé's Lemonade — the queen's opus full of infidelity allusions, laments for love lost, and praise for love won back again — JAY-Z is sharing his side of the story, and the plot points are pretty are much the same.
That gives the show's creators, which include Mr Handler as a screenwriter, enough time to linger on the various fiddly details that made the originals so much fun to decipher: the sly literary allusions, the recurrence of mysterious objects and the innumerable appearances of the letters "VFD".
People flooded the post with more than 125,000 comments, most of which are just inside jokes from Friends, ranging from allusions to Ross's canonical doppelgänger to the running disagreement about whether or not he and Rachel were on a break when he slept with another woman.
So it's no surprise that Kobach's memo included partially obscured allusions to the "voter rolls" and "draft amendments" to a law—apparently the National Voter Registration Act—that is intended to make it easier for citizens to get on the voter rolls and stay on them.
It's a very similar plot to that found in Seth Rogen movie 'Sausage Party' You might recognize this story: Samsung's ad shares almost exactly the same premise as upcoming R-rated animation Sausage Party, albeit without the regular swearing and constant allusions to a horrific death.
" Released shortly after her 2015, Ceci N'est Pas Un Viol—which translates from French to "this is not a rape"—is a website that displays a trigger warning ("The following text contains allusions to rape") then questions the viewer's reasons for visiting ("Are you searching for proof?
Kurtág is of part-Jewish descent, and these intertwined allusions to Beckett's fondness for Jewish jokes, Mussorgsky's caricatures of Jews, and Joyce's portrait of Leopold Bloom make one wonder if the composer thinks of "Endgame" as a post-Holocaust work, as Theodor W. Adorno did before him.
Under his steady gaze and severe hand, with the ever-present threat of violence (there are rightfully ominous allusions to a basement), she has been raised amid material plenty with luxuriously appointed rooms as well as drawers and shelves stuffed with elegant feminine frippery — gloves, hats, gowns.
" (Visitors probably won't miss the allusions, particularly to the Eric Garner case.) Mr. Elms added, "I was prepped by Rodney that it was going to be a pretty dark show, that we were starting with heavy material, and it was probably only going to get heavier.
Unwittingly (though the allusions to mass culture could be generously read as commentary on the loss of the sacred), these "totems" are located in the degradation of a community-based art form of the Tlingit, Haida, Kwakwaka'wakw and Coast Salish peoples into mass produced tourist tchotchkes.
Van Gogh fashioned a different type of self-portrait when he emerged from the Arles hospital: his first work was a still life with a plate of onions that includes allusions to his health, from a pipe and a bag of tobacco to an empty absinthe bottle.
Some readers of Book 1 will feel as though they're on a treasure hunt for allusions to the French masterpiece: There are reflections on how different rooms feel, meditations on famous paintings, a preoccupation with a beloved grandmother, early fumblings with girls that result in premature ejaculations.
In an address to Mr. Sisi and a collection of political and civil authorities, Francis gently sought to encourage the authoritarian government's progress in protecting Egypt's religious minorities while at the same time making subtle, diplomatic but nevertheless clear allusions to the leader's crackdown on human rights.
Mr. Depp is not the first celebrity to come under fire for making violent allusions toward Mr. Trump, spurring a debate about where to draw the line regarding incitement, political commentary and art when it comes to a president who has shown no reluctance to antagonize opponents.
Melissa Mark-Viverito on Thursday delivered her last State of the City address as the speaker of the New York City Council, peppering the speech with policy, Spanish and invocations of immigrant contributions — and lacing it with allusions to, but no direct mention of, President Trump.
The barrage of period allusions functions as a connective tissue binding the disjointed parts of "Black Monday," which tries to stitch together an over-the-top comedy of the go-go '80s and a tut-tutting, cautionary morality tale, fitted out with appropriate music, fashions and hairstyles.
There are some allusions to Ally not wanting to "sell out" — she refuses to dye her hair platinum blonde (instead she goes for a violent orange, as if in a sort of compromise) or to perform with coordinated backup dancers — but the movie never really embraces her pop music.
Writers like George Peele and Robert Nashe, for example, were blamed for the leaden classical allusions that occasionally weigh down "Henry VI, Part I". Similarly, acknowledging Thomas Middleton's hand in a particularly choice section of "All's Well That Ends Well" recognises that Shakespeare's contemporaries often matched his skill.
It proposes training students and staff to spot warning signs of possible violence in others; improving security infrastructure at schools; implementing threat assessment and crisis intervention teams to identify and analyze problem behavior (like online allusions to mass shootings); and bolstering channels of communication between schools and law enforcement.
"I wanted to get out of childhood as soon as possible and escape it, and now that I'm making movies, I'm chasing it," he said during an eight-hour interview that had all the intensity of a Dolan film, accented by allusions to Proust and a heavy snowfall outside.
No one can dispute the work involved (the slither of a finale gown had a train covered in hundreds of mother-of-pearl flowers), but the designer's attempt to bridge east and west is still a work in progress, perhaps because the allusions themselves feel mired in stereotype.
"Listen, I don't have the foggiest whether there are tapes are not, but the fact that the president made allusions to that and then the White House would not confirm or deny, it is not anything we have seen in recent days," Warner told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday.
And not just because of the interview that Inge (Daniel K. Isaac), an aspiring playwright, attempts to conduct with Williams; this is the dialogue of characters obliged to fill in not only the details of their lives, but also the themes, along with unsubtle allusions to their plays.
Influences, allusions and cross-references are significant and powerfully enriching in virtually all artistic creation, and those among us who look past what Harold Bloom and others call "mastering allusiveness in particular poems" are a little like tone-deaf concertgoers at the philharmonic who merely enjoy a loud noise.
No. Ms. Beach's essay was not a straightforward tell-all but rather, a stylized confessional, filled with imagistic asides ("cracked-open pill capsules rolled across the coffee table"), and knowing literary allusions, most importantly to "Cyrano de Bergerac," a play in which the title character is a ghostwriter.
Instead they are tethered to psychotically specific set pieces — a mole who is displaced by construction work, a couple in Alaska who cook a beaver tail — and riddled with allusions to arcane inventions (dumbwaiters), exotic locales (rice paddies) and nightmarish images (an anthropomorphized sun with a zipperlike mouth).
Now, let's get something straight here: Mandel and his crew did not have to remove these accidental allusions to the horrific shitpile that is American politics right now, especially since other TV shows haven't been shy about adding a dash or two of Trump into their own fictional universes.
While there's a fine line between Tom Verlaine singing about dressing like cops and seeing what we can do and Rønnenfelt's somewhat more vague poetic allusions to staying up late as a mutiny in heaven, it's no less hogwash than the diaristic impulses of so many of their rock peers.
Faure's analysis is purely aesthetic; his romantic imagery, his allusions to flora, fauna, jewels, and gleaming metal, reveal how much the text of this important art historian, working in France in the late 1920s, is indebted to the prose of the Symbolist critics, who wrote more than two decades earlier.
We're 1,500 words deep here, and I've barely even touched upon the film's treatment of gender and sexuality, or its intriguing implication that this entire Biblical storyline is a cycle that repeats itself over and over, or any number of other themes, allusions, and references crammed into this movie. mother!
For every The Fire Next Time, Baldwin's 1963 book of "letters" about the racial injustices he experienced growing up in Harlem, he also wrote a Go Tell It on the Mountain, his 1953 novel about a young black boy discovering himself, featuring a number of allusions to his developing homosexuality.
I don't think because the allusions were especially funny — the sentence "Adolphe Menjou is threatening to walk off the set" is not exactly a gut-buster, even in context — but because they signified a cultural awareness that the laugher in the dark wanted the rest of us to know he shared.
That Mr. Simons's allusions led to no place in particular hardly seemed to matter to a mob that included Jake Gyllenhaal, Marc Jacobs, Julianne Moore, ASAP Rocky and hundreds of other New Yorkers, who are never happier than when being crowded, deafened and herded in the direction of something new.
The latest example which is representative of a general trend is the recent theatre by Matteo Ghidono at the Milan Triennale, a mishmash of allusions to Aldo Rossi (the ephemeral wooden theatre), Sottsass (the self-definition of "pagan temple", the gaudy colours on the backdrop) and Rem Koolhaas (the balloon).
" But while such lyrical allusions may be clever, Styles is a more impressive storyteller when he's at his most raw and real, as is evident during the lugubrious closer "From the Dining Table," where he apathetically sings, "Woke up alone in this hotel room / Played with myself, where were you?
Bell's balancing of the terms "abstraction" and "materials" is significant — especially with regard to the works from 1978 on display here — by differentiating the absolute thingness of these paintings from the allusions to the observational world that you find even in something as densely materialist as Richard Serra's black oil-stick drawings.
Whitten's sculptures are deliciously rebellious and fiercely lyrical, bursting with personal narrative, as well as African, Classical, and literary allusions, though their impact upon his accumulative, jazz-inspired paintings is clearer in the show's second iteration at The Met Breuer, where 3D works and paintings hang side-by-side to emphasize their parallels.
As Polygon's Julia Alexander noted, this trailer brings back some of the vibe that defined the first outstanding season for the series, teasing a weird mystery that's divided up into a couple of different time periods as a detective works to solve a case, with allusions that something supernatural may be going on.
He loves to work in allusions to the title (here he says "she want the green light, let the bitch go") or shout out the person he's on the song with—it's as if at the end of the day Wayne can't help himself from being a bit of a rap nerd.
Although some Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders will express "serious concern" over the "escalation of activities" in the disputed sea, ASEAN will drop references, or even allusions, to China's construction of artificial islands and the military hardware it has placed on them, according excerpts of the draft seen by Reuters.
Variety: "Rogue One" is loaded with allusions to other films in the franchise, and though that's fun for the faithful, it also makes this the "Battlefield Earth" of the series: an elaborate, complex-to-the-point-of-confusing space opera that will earn few converts, while appealing primarily to the already-converted.
His Democratic rivals accused him of seeking to buy the presidency, and Mr. Bloomberg often came close to embracing that idea: In his speeches, he frequently made allusions to his vast personal fortune and presented himself to Democratic voters as the candidate with "the record and the resources" to win the general election.
Ostentatiously peppering a shaggy-dog story with allusions to Greek myth — and, depending on how you take the title, Dante — the Quebecois director Denis Côté's "Boris Without Beatrice" appears to have something to say about the hubris of the modern business tycoon, but it never coalesces into more than a self-amused goof.
Long ago, I contacted Kidd about working on an article together, because I was fascinated by one of his other projects — he had produced a digital edition, one that used embedded hyperlinks to make the novel's vast thicket of references and allusions, patterns and connections all available to the reader at a click.

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