The infinitely detailed reference guide to Nabokov's richly allusive novel.
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But judging by advance press, the show is gonna be allusive.
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Private Parts is a magpie nest of language: allusive, glittering, broken.
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It is the most economical, elliptical and allusive form of exchange possible.
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Yet the setting has the effect of imbuing "Cabin" with allusive poetry.
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She is a difficult, allusive, dense poet, haunted by myth and by language.
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It is the art we need now: rich, allusive, tongue-tied and unanswerable.
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Clever, allusive, with a capacious sense of humor, the book sizzles with intelligence.
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Like actors in Godard, Sontag's characters speak a sighing, allusive language draped with erudition.
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Nunez's dry, allusive and charming new novel has the makings of a broad comedy.
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Emphasizing the personal, Goldstein neglects the allusive, mythological and abstract dimensions of the works.
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He has written song lyrics with imagery as allusive, resonant and occasionally enigmatic as Dylan's.
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Jonathan Miller's production of Debussy's seductive, allusive opera returns, but unfortunately for only five shows.
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But nothing in this richly allusive play is exactly as it seems at first glance.
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Today we revere "Lolita" for Nabokov's bold, multilayered subject matter and his dazzling and allusive prose.
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Lovely, allusive passages like that suggest a much better, more subtle adaptation nested inside this one.
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Abu Milhem's tactile and allusive works invoke the tradition of Palestinian embroidery only to unsettle it.
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Certain allusive shapes reappear: a bearish hump; repeated curlicues; double curves terminating in horizontal or vertical lines.
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While the Gentileschi paintings are suggestive, allusive to the sex within the story, Rubens leads with it.
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Sounding like an almost familiar aphorism, the isolated and allusive phrase captures the spirit of the exhibition well.
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Gossage's images were more abstract and allusive: a curving road through overgrown hedgerows; a view over Welsh hills.
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Between you, you have come up with one very blunt one and one that is both elusive and allusive.
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Its young director, Georgia Azoulay, attempted to craft coherent story lines out of Woolf's allusive, stream-of-consciousness novel.
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"Ulysses," James Joyce Yes, it's dense and difficult and allusive, but it's also funny and vulgar and full of life.
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Gently allusive and perfectly titled, "Hunter Gatherer" is clear about Ashley's selfishness and scam-filled past, but never condemns him.
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The fallout of the divorce is almost its own film — the various allusive quotes and photoshoots all feel cinematic and sad.
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In the end I hope to produce works that have ideas at their heart, but that are allusive rather than descriptive.
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The production is dark, allusive, unique and completely indivisible from what we like to think of as the distinctive Giggs sound.
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The references were allusive rather than pointed, and exceptions included an appropriately lewd Harvey Weinstein joke Rivers would probably have loved.
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The existence of a debut as confident and allusive as "Columbus" is almost as improbable as the existence of Columbus, Ind.
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Logue's is a contemporary poetry set atop the always recognizable ancient story — fragmentary, jarring, allusive, "Cubist" (to use another of Logue's anachronisms).
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In this allusive, formally complex work, the picture plane breaks into three vectors within which a thickset pink figure bends and twists.
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" It would be easier, he claims, "to be allusive and charming and rather subtle, you know the sort of thing, and tender.
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Some of the better offerings are more allusive, like fried-chicken sliders with Japanese katsu sauce, transfigured by a bright streak of calamansi.
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He constructed songs so that each one is a drama in itself, with an allusive, erudite verse leading to a simpler storytelling refrain.
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He notes on the blog that, back in the fourth grade, he was given a school assignment to find the allusive Golden Crowned Kinglet.
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This allusive complexity would have flattered the sophistication of the original audience, but today it can leave everyone except specialists flipping to the endnotes.
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"The Complete Essays" comprises 68 texts, most of them brief, in which he presents an allusive, fragmented and recursive account of his photographic philosophy.
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The allusive character names and the absurdist spectacles of the depicted auditions suggest that the proceedings constitute an elaborate inside joke, which they do.
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The work does indeed feel like a kind of ensorcelling, because all the action seems to take place on that other, allusive plane of reality.
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You can imagine the cube being more allusive if the four screens showed four different videos that mixed together and became abstracted in the reflections.
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Wry and playful, except for when densely allusive and willfully obtuse, "Ninety-Nine Stories of God" is a treasure trove of bafflements and tiny masterpieces.
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Watch: "Cities of Last Things," Wi Ding Ho's delicate and allusive film, follows the life of a violent and vengeful cop in three parts — backward.
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Whereas his poetry was usually dense and allusive, worked over again and again (and thus of great appeal to commentators), his paintings could be quickly made.
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After teasing the upcoming Chocolate Chip palette last week, Too Faced cofounder and creative director Jerrod Blandino is at it again with another allusive Instagram post.
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No allusive echo is merely random in this play, written in a vernacular epic style that brings to mind both Tarell Alvin McCraney and Sam Shepard.
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Again hewing to the darker side, the Dutch animator Jorn Leeuwerink's deceptively childlike "Flower Found!" creates an allusive pastel nightmare of mistaken identity and mob injustice.
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For someone who had little technical training, her ability to pen #1 songs, sometimes in as little as 30 minutes, is as allusive as it is magical.
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She starts off nasty and allusive, confusing you with bits of history you don't know, then curdles the thought into something between an aphorism and a punchline.
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In the end, the House of Names, at once allusive and blank, seems all too apt a symbol for the novel that shares its mysterious name. ♦
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A romance and a tragedy stretching across decades, it's rich and allusive, a movie that promises to take its audience seriously and then delivers on that promise.
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I had wondered ahead of time if Ms. Leonard's austere, allusive, intensely personal work would be able to cast its spell in the Whitney's wide-open reaches.
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Scenes, allusive and eclectic, exploded into barbed romanticism reminiscent of Prokofiev, and the humor in the writing had the sweet/sour qualities of someone schooled in Soviet tradition.
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These alchemists of allusive include Collette Ballou, the founder of the eponymous Ballou PR; Katy Turner, the managing director of Multiple; and longtime public relations pro, Joanna Kirk.
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Even as they prize their roots, Brazilian musicians have assimilated jazz, rock, reggae, metal, hip-hop, electronic music and more; they also pack pop lyrics with complexly allusive poetry.
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Acutely sensitive to these misgivings, Luiselli has delivered a madly allusive, self-reflexive, experimental novel, one that is as much about storytellers and storytelling as it is about lost children.
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Like a totem of her own personal folklore, it isn't entirely new or old, homespun or exotic, but, rather, allusive: to the many-colored stories that live somewhere in between.
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Reached by way of doors concealed from view on the store's main sales floor, the windows were, at less than four feet, surprisingly shallow for all their weird allusive depths.
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The album was recorded entirely to cell phones, and Bat Dawid played every instrument, layering mantra-like vocals over these elliptical, allusive arrangements that are both slow-moving and deceptively complex.
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But a closer look reveals how Mr. Wa Lehulere's art offers allusive, layered references to his own complex personal history and its deep entwining with that of his country, South Africa.
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In a show that ranges broadly and deeply across history, scaled to the epic even as it evokes the intimate, Kayode Ojo's "Untitled" (2017) offers an allusive note of personal intimacy.
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H: Your work has generally avoided overtly political references or statements, but your use of materials and forms are highly suggestive and allusive to issues of race and the female body.
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Working through Faulkner's layered and allusive prose, line by line at a snail's pace in a few snatched moments at the end of the day, is a meditative, joyous and colorful experience.
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While the military subject matter differs markedly from that of Watteau's fêtes galantes, there's an allusive, bittersweet poetry about these early works that looks forward to the later visions of pastoral dalliance.
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In place of the raw archaic potency of Homer's epics, which seems to dissolve the millennia between his heroes and us, Virgil's densely allusive poem offers an elaborately self-conscious "literary" suavity.
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While the military subject matter differs markedly from that of Watteau's fetes galantes, there's an allusive, bittersweet poetry about these early works that looks forward to the later visions of pastoral dalliance.
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While the military subject matter differs markedly from that of the fêtes galantes, there's an allusive, bittersweet poetry about these early works that looks forward to the later scenes of pastoral dalliance.
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Music, mostly a plaintive piano score played live by Deborah Lennie-Bisson, is overlaid with lyrics from David Bowie's "Heroes" and children's voices: Like the movement onstage, it is gentle and allusive.
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Her voice — deep, velvety, slightly raspy — is instantly recognizable, and she brings a welcome level of sophistication to Duras's allusive style, which she has tackled in multiple stage productions over the years.
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In Joseph Losey's lean and allusive "Secret Ceremony," Ms. Taylor becomes a surrogate mother to a young woman (Mia Farrow, in the same year as "Rosemary's Baby") who resembles her dead daughter.
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In addition to being widely recognized as one of the greatest lyricists of his generation, Mr. Lamar is a formidable presence onstage, running through his richly allusive verses with ease and style.
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Because he mines the painful bedrock of his life, it is worth knowing some of its most harrowing incidents, the ore from which he extracts the allusive, metaphorical poetry of his fiction.
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Amongst all the techno-flash, chrome-perfection of a world full of photographic imagery, an image that suggests an alternative reality in a non-figurative, allusive way can be viewed afresh, without prejudice.
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Of all the #MeToo stories this year, my favorite was the one that barely showed, peeking from the corners of "High Maintenance," on HBO, the dreamy, allusive pot-dealer series set in Brooklyn.
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It slowly occurs to the reader that Hardwick is developing her own sharp vision of a female narrative mode in her work: fragmentary, allusive, shifting in its layers of time, sharp as a Fury's whip.
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Also (often humorously) in extended and allusive use: a youthful… A new sense was added to the existing entry for the word "force" — which has existed in the dictionary for some time, given its many meanings.
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Jayne Joso has quietly and determinedly produced three novels over the past eight years — her latest, "My Falling Down House," about a mysteriously alienated young Japanese man, is an unacknowledged gem: subtle, allusive, and deceptively ambitious.
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Ms Wroe, Obituaries editor of The Economist and the author of allusive lives of Pontius Pilate, Shelley and Orpheus, holds St Francis up to the light and turns him this way and that to catch the gleam.
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It was there that he began making his name as a stage actor and a writer of plays that were edgy, surrealistic and poetically allusive in the manner of the progressive rock-and-roll music of that era.
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Sand is everywhere in this book, from the literal (deserts, dust, beaches) to the implicit (as a component of silicon chips or a sign of ecological crisis) to the figurative or allusive (Sandra Bland, Hurricane Sandy, Sandy Hook).
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As I hear this sprightly, allusive, elusive, technically accomplished collection, all but a few of its 18 melodic yet seldom uplifting or effervescent songs bespeak some fraught combination of lost youth, career anxiety, and, way down deep, political dismay.
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"These references seep out of his highly allusive, often poetic forms in waves, evoking the earlier Modernism of Brancusi, Arp, Noguchi and Duchamp, but also carpentry, basket weaving, African sculpture and the building of shelter and ships," she added.
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Although such an ambitious, allusive project risks the prospect of Woods's own work suffering by comparison with the legacy it addresses, she's solved a common problem that besets artists attempting to construct community — she makes community explicit in the music.
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Instead, he organises his book around seven themes, of which the other six are satire aimed at Jewish norms; bookish and allusive wordplay; vulgarity and the body; mordant metaphysical irony; the folksy quotidian Jew; and the ambiguous nature of Jewishness.
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"There is an urgent need for news communicated with serenity, precision and completeness, with a calm language, so as to favor a fruitful reflection; carefully weighted and clear words, which reject the inflation of allusive, strident and ambiguous speech," he said.
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Invariably, however, they are richly allusive, steeped in historical references or observations on contentious current issues, and thereby demonstrate Turner's desire to create scenes that act as portals through which the viewer can contemplate much that is not actually depicted.
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Mr. Muresan, who's taking part in next month's Venice Biennale, makes allusive "palimpsest" drawings, for which he copies every image from a book of Holbein paintings, or from an issue of Artforum magazine, into dense webs of images and information.
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Geoffrey Hill, often hailed as Britain's finest living poet, whose dense, allusive verses ranged from dark meditations on morals, religious faith and political violence to rapturous evocations of the English landscape of his native Worcestershire, died on Thursday at his home in Cambridge.
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Explaining the film's allure, Mr. Scott wrote, "It is a quiet, intimately scaled three-person drama directed in a patient, easygoing style, without any of the displays of allusive cleverness or formal gimmickry that so often masquerade as important filmmaking these days."
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Unsurprisingly, given the comic, allusive and metaphoric potential of the pairing, Comensal makes much of an angry, dying man's mute efforts to communicate while accompanied in his final days by a loud, caged bird prone to harsh expressions and indifferent to being understood.
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Art objects can be equally allusive, manufacturing a sense of knowing, even if they often act as containers for ideas from our own culture that we pour into them in our fumbling attempt to understand and control what they might have to say.
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The same goes for flashbacks that fill in backstory for some of the characters — you can see how both techniques might make parsing the plot a little easier, but in spelling out the details, the movie loses some of its allusive punch.
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Bob Crowley's ingenious set, with its allusive empty frames and moving parts, has a modernity feels at odds with the old-fashioned ballet tropes that Mr. Wheeldon slips into "Strapless" — as if Jonathan Franzen had suddenly decided to write in the style of Dickens.
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How much readers enjoy it will depend on whether they are charmed or irritated by its narrator's aversion to the practicalities of daily life, and how far they are prepared to go in admiring the drunken vicissitudes of his busy, elusive and allusive intellect.
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A student of American prose could hold up Adams's Grant-bashing memoir against Grant's own memoir to define the two furthest points of American recollection: one discursive, mordant, allusive, and hyperbolic—exaggeration of affect is the key to Adams's "education"—the other pointed, reduced, and understated.
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The father in "Disgrace," the searing book by the Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee, turns to his daughter when looking for his own redemption; and "The Saskiad," Brian Hall's gorgeously allusive novel from 1997, follows a precocious teenager who reunites with the father she has tragically mythologized.
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Woods has embraced an approach to intellectual Black pop that peaked with Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly (2015) and gradually became less common since, where the complexity of the historical connections drawn in the lyrics is matched by the delicate intricacy of the equally allusive beatwork. Legacy!
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Nari Ward reworks a liquor store sign into a flower-strewn altarpiece, as redolent of Afro-Caribbean rites as the French Rococo; the married artists Julie Mehretu and Jessica Rankin duet in a suite of allusive works on paper, an act of creation and an act of love.
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I remember being a little confused by the relative obloquy, among art-world cognoscenti, of a related and, to my naïve eye, equally wonderful artist: Alexander Calder , whose mobiles had taken Miró's influence to literal heights, with variations on the Catalan's repertoire of catchy, nature-allusive forms suspended in air.
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Michael S. Harper, whose allusive, jazz-inflected poems interwove his personal experiences as a black man with an expansive view of a history shared by black and white Americans, and who was a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry in 22013, died on Saturday in Rhinebeck, N.Y. He was 21973.
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While Butterly's forms are wildly allusive, with the female body humming at the center of our scrutiny, it seems to me that by refusing the commonplace option of citation, especially of well-known fictional characters littering Pop culture, she rejects the view that fabricating an original copy is the best we can do in this mechanized, digital world.
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Listen Up Philip is often taken to be in dialogue with the life and work of Philip Roth, but that's only because of liberal use of a retro font in the titles (reminiscent of the cover of Portnoy's Complaint) and some allusive naming (Schwartzman's Philip has an aging mentor named Ike Zimmerman, close to Roth's alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman).
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A spectacular example of such a conflicted creative sensibility is "Kai Althoff: and then leave me to the common swifts (und dann überlasst mich den Mauerseglern)" at the Museum of Modern Art, which has more than 200 of Mr. Althoff's poetically allusive, delicately made paintings, drawings and sculptures folded into an unfortunately messy and confusing installation of found materials.
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There are stretches of the museum in which a feeling of sameness and emptiness sets in, with a stylistic specificity, centered on the clean and geometric, that makes more allusive terms of expression, such as the sculptural installations of Louise Bourgeois or Joseph Beuys's drawings based on the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, feel like outliers.
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The story of a one-of-a-kind blue diamond made from the cremated remains of a Pritzker Prize-winning architect being offered in exchange for a trove of documents held by a mysterious Swiss corporation may sound like the plot of a James Bond movie, but this is one of those allusive moments when reality is stranger than fiction and life imitates art.
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That from-the-shoulder motion that draws the white line into and across the canvas is integral to the composition, and expresses a non-verbal thought process related to allusive and elusive elements in the other works, as well as, in this case, the Summer's Gun series, as the emerald areas, emphasized by what look like paw prints, and given focus by the line, call back to that earlier series.
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It is hard to identify Swift's final judgment of the poetry; he declares that "the grand bad faith of the 'Cantos' — its pomposity, its anger — is a constant, running line after line," but this is so instantly untrue that one wants to chalk it up to the spiteful impatience every reader has felt who has engaged deeply with Pound's allusive and polyphonic poem and emerged occasionally inspired but also baffled and frustrated.
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The exhibition — which also includes a colorful jigsaw composition by Mel Bernstine; two muted, planar paintings by Eric Brown; Kellyann Burns's starkly vertical evocation of a cityscape; a diamond-patterned acrylic on canvas by Paul Corio; Gary Stephan's abstraction superimposing a Swiss cross over a large X-shape; and Laura Watt's spiraling, expressly architectural composition suggesting the interior of a dome — doesn't lean too heavily on its premise, avoiding the literal in favor of a more allusive approach.
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