| 单词 | allusion |
| 例句 | Going a bit further back, Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” speech, as it became known, was based on a classical allusion: “Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It tarried, however: days and weeks passed: I had regained my normal state of health, but no new allusion was made to the subject over which I brooded. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “In the place where there is no darkness,” he said, as though he had recognized the allusion. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The vast majority consisted of allusions to prior communications whicb Major Major had never seen or heard of. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The discussion of Mr. Collins’s offer was now nearly at an end, and Elizabeth had only to suffer from the uncomfortable feelings necessarily attending it, and occasionally from some peevish allusions of her mother. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z He would merely give out the communion with the usual disturbing allusions to eating flesh and drinking blood. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the place with no darkness: he saw now why O’Brien had seemed to recognize the allusion. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But now it was okay, almost required, every now and then, to make some jokey allusion to these things that lay in front of us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t remember any direct allusions to my sexual apparatus. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He had traveled half around the world and his talk was pitted with vague allusions to European cities. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Do you recollect the magnificent lines at the beginning of "Paradise Lost"? The lecturer was lucid in his allusions. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt a burning glow mount to my face; for bitter and agitating recollections were awakened by the allusion to marriage. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The fog cleared as suddenly as it had appeared and yet nobody made any allusion to it, nor did anybody look as though anything unusual had just happened. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He made written allusions to Bursa, and now Desdemona began to worry. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “It will be called,” Mrs. Baker told us, “Operation Pegasus. Now, someone tell me the meaning of the classical allusion.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z It had all the elements—romance, sadness, an allusion to the war, and faithful love. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The recorded songs of the humpback whale, filled with tensions and resolutions, ambiguities and allusions, incomplete, can be listened to as a part of music, like an isolated section of an orchestra. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It does not mention the sacrifice of Iphigenia, and makes only a dubious allusion to the Judgment of Paris. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout there was a strange bitterness; an absence of consolatory gentleness; stern allusions to Calvinistic doctrines—election, predestination, reprobation—were frequent; and each reference to these points sounded like a sentence pronounced for doom. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z There are many allusions to him in prose writers as well as poets. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I made vague allusions to personal problems and went away from them cold with despair. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The souvenir pamphlet noted that even a full load of passengers had “no more effect on the movements or the speed than if they were so many flies”—an oddly ungracious allusion. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I thought if I just ignore them and their allusions of grandeur, then they’ll eventually forget about it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Not a word, however, passed his lips in allusion to it, till their visitor took his leave for the night; but as soon as he was gone, he turned to his daughter, and said: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z “Fate” being the writer’s coy allusion to marriage. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Not only ancient history—the mythical age of the brothers’ feud—but my own history one second ago, has vanished utterly, dropped out of existence. in Time. is an allusion of language. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Strauss’s allusion to a “humanitarian” H-bomb drew derision from critics of the arms race. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She seems somehow more reconciled; or else the very subject seems to have become repugnant to her, for when any accidental allusion is made she actually shudders. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I saw allusions in passages that Danny and his father overlooked, and I resolved a contradiction with an appeal to grammar. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z With Mom, that means a guilt-laden experience with many allusions to her struggles as a single mom. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z There are no early sources for his story except a few brief allusions in Hesiod, in the eighth or ninth century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazan uses it to explore the relationship between painting and photography, his riff dense with allusions. The Invention of Paris by Eric Hazan and Parisians, by Graham Robb 2010-04-16T23:07:00Z A video screen showed mysteriously costumed people doing mysterious things; the rhythms, decisively underlined by live drumming from Michael Italia, were dreamy processionals or allusions to kinetic trance rituals. Music Review: ‘Purity Ring’ at Webster Hall 2013-01-13T21:06:29Z Reagan tapped into this Lone Star love affair with his frequent allusions to the frontier spirit and near-constant appearances on horseback, waving and smiling like Roy Rogers. Riff: When ‘Dallas’ Was the Capital of America 2012-06-02T04:00:06Z Religious allusions shoot through the album, most carrying a feeling of funereal gloom. Cold Specks: I Predict a Graceful Expulsion ? review 2012-05-17T20:15:01Z But allusions without resonance are merely manifestations of self-indulgence. English teacher: I was wrong about “Hunger Games” 2012-07-19T18:30:00Z It’s another allusion to Central African nkisi figures, which often have organic medicinal substances contained within the abdomen. Review | After death, major works by artist Jack Whitten discovered 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z But part of the novel’s genius is that these allusions never really lead anywhere — they don’t coalesce into some superstructure of metaphor. An Epic Storm Turns a Summer Holiday Into Potent Allegory 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z For years, people have talked about your songs as though they’re puzzles, full of clues and allusions, but always avoiding a clear meaning. Stephen Malkmus Doesn’t Think He Was a Jerk 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z In roundabout ways, through allusion and metaphor, this is a crisis room, and a room that is particularly meaningful during new periods of uncertainty. Perspective | On a last walk through the National Gallery, I’m reassured by images of an uncertain future 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z “You don’t need to fix anything here,” Joe tells Ruben at one point when he tries to mend the roof, the allusion all too clear. ‘Sound of Metal’ Review: When the Music Stops, the Healing Begins 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z His nickname among them is Party of One, an allusion to how much beer he can hold, and also to more elusive qualities. The National Agenda 2010-04-23T13:00:00Z The age of the camp persona, the biting comment, the ironic allusion is not passing, exactly, but it is moving towards a particular section of a particular gay community at a particular point in time. How to Be Gay by David M Halperin – review 2012-08-29T09:00:00Z That may be so, but his sculptures are rich with allusions. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z The contemporary Russian designer Denis Simachev has found success in making wry allusions to many of the Soviet fashions that Bartlett chronicles. T Magazine: Comrade, That Suit Is So Chanel 2010-12-09T20:47:00Z And the novel’s contemporary setting exhibits the markings of Gothic terror, with wry allusions to Frankenstein, Edgar Allan Poe and even Stephen King. Review | In Sadie Jones’s “The Snakes,” parents are more venomous than reptiles 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Her mural features a greyhound — a sly allusion to the lot’s past life as a bus depot. Art takes hold in one of downtown’s last gritty spaces — but only for a while 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z His first foray into fiction, at the age of 72, is nonetheless stuffed with literary allusions, along with much wonderful writing. “Darke”, an unforgettable figure 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Even spectacles that advertise their all-ages, universal accessibility — child-friendly animation sequels, say — traffic in winking allusions to various canons of cultural arcana. Catch That Reference? There?ll Be a Quiz 2011-06-24T20:21:53Z That dismembered and repositioned tongue isn’t the only visual allusion to the artist’s own missing digit. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z In Ms. Kahraman’s hands the delicacy and stylization of the source are writ large and on raw linen — evoking the pages of a Persian album — and complicated with allusions to other times, places and styles. Hayv Kahraman: ‘How Iraqi Are You?’ 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z The album's working title, one of six being mooted by the group, is an allusion to the factors that hold U2 together after 36 years of making music. U2 reveal working title for new album 2013-01-17T11:25:28Z He even layered in musical references: The show’s opening number includes musical allusions to Peabo Bryson’s “One Life to Live” and the opening of “Another World,” sung by Gary Morris and Crystal Gayle. Michael R. Jackson on the Soap Opera Origins of ‘White Girl in Danger’ 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The lyrics “takes you down” are written in bold black letters on the stairs — a playful allusion to the song. Is Leonard Cohen the New Secular Saint of Montreal? 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Chekhov’s plays and Ingmar Bergman’s films are also among the allusions. Art in Review 2010-02-18T23:04:00Z That ornate line — with its melodratic allusion to Copernican astronomy — is typical of this novel. Review | Kevin Powers’s first novel exposed the horrors of the Iraq War. Now he takes on the Civil War. 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z The great writer himself is referred to, with mock disdain, as “The Year Million Man,” an allusion to Wells’s youthful article about future humans as eggheads with attenuated bodies and limbs. ‘The Massacre of Mankind’: a sequel to H.G. Wells’s ‘The War of the Worlds’ 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z And Classical allusions pervade pictures made in memory of the Alexandrian writer Constantine P. Cavafy. Art in Review: JOHN O?REILLY: ?Recent Montage? 2011-06-30T21:24:36Z But it’s also hard not to see an allusion to a wharf. Charleston Needs That African American Museum. And Now. 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z All are freighted with complex references and allusions, which Carpaccio could be relied upon seamlessly to integrate into single images that could be read at various levels of sophistication. Puncturing the Myth of Carpaccio’s Waning Powers 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z As familiar as those from the Bible, these stories saturate our literary history, in renditions and translations, allusions and transformations. Turning Circe Into a Good Witch 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z The American west was Dorn's imaginative home, and his poem is an extraordinary feat of imagination, humour, allusion and lyric invention. Collected Poems by Edward Dorn – review 2013-02-01T16:01:01Z No one got the joke, or even recognised the allusion, and I was asked if the name was a reference to Russian roulette? William Blake brought me face to face with my literary fundamentalism 2012-11-06T12:09:21Z In a period of later repentance, Remi cleaned up “Tintin” panels that were tainted by racist portrayals of black Africans and anti-Semitic allusions to Jews. In His Year of Working Furiously, Spielberg Makes a Summer Stop 2011-07-22T23:39:18Z You can imagine its dancers as dragonflies, fauns, larks — though any such illusions or allusions come and go. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z As that comment suggests, Morton can be as slippery a writer as she is a painter, and many of her oils on canvas are packed with literary and art-history allusions. Sarah McRae Morton’s painterly talents serve her vivid dreamscapes well 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z There’s no need to decipher all her allusions because her delivery and production say it all. Nicki Minaj Returns Ready to Rumble, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Often Rankine drops only the sparest cultural allusions into the book. Claudia Rankine on the Ways Race Haunts Her Imagination, and America’s 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z It’s the final song on his album, and the one on which the allusions to Mr. Cooke are the strongest, taking advantage of the slickness of Mr. Bridges’s voice. Review: Leon Bridges Reveals Classic Soul and Something More Personal 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z As contemporary allusions are worn away by the acid rain of history, the profound insights of a great work of satire grow more prominent. Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Set just outside Dublin during the run-up to Halloween, “You Are Not My Mother” leaves much of its supernatural thrust to vagueness and allusion, focusing instead on Char’s responses to her mother’s terrifying transformation. ‘You Are Not My Mother’ Review: Parental Misguidance 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Through this fog of glib allusion and secondhand thinking, the wistful glimmer of Fitzgerald’s prose shines like the green light at the end of Daisy Buchanan’s dock. Movie Review: ‘The Great Gatsby,’ Interpreted by Baz Luhrmann 2013-05-09T12:00:01Z The odd allusion to mind-numbing bureaucracy sounds the requisite Kafkaesque notes. ‘Closet Land’ is courageous and uncomfortable, but also predictable 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Some allusions are probably so obscure they will be lost on all but the biggest fans of the subgenre. 'The Walking Deceased' a good-natured spoof of zombie subgenre 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z They treated the allusions to contemporary politics as an extraordinary occurrence. Art Review: Iran's Mirror of the World 2011-02-25T12:00:05Z There may be a Tybalt in the mix, and there may be a jokey, verbal allusion to the real ending of "Romeo and Juliet," but ceramic gnomes can only mean one thing: happily ever after. 'Gnomeo & Juliet': Blame Elton John for this happily-ever-after version 2011-02-09T18:22:03Z There are obvious biblical allusions at work here — to Isaac, the son the prophet Abraham was willing to sacrifice, and in the chapellike structure of the cabin. ‘A Great Wilderness’: a crisis of faith, identity 2014-01-24T17:52:35Z Missing Matt, she was crying through the contest, but the allusion to Wolfe’s book was a little too pat. 'Friday Night Lights' Watch: Of Tragedy and Resiliency 2010-06-19T18:49:00Z For Kahlo fans, the narrow plant-lined path at the conservatory is like a concordance to the life and work, with allusions scattered right and left. In ‘Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life,’ Nature Melds With the Artist Herself 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z "The Lady's not for turning", an allusion to Christopher Fry's creaky 1940s verse-drama, The Lady's Not For Burning, bears the marks of a script-writer's midnight desperation. Margaret Thatcher's mark on books 2013-04-09T14:00:02Z And if a fair’s sexual allusions can ever be considered subtle, here even those masks are pulled away. ‘Funland’ at Museum of Sex Imitates a Carnival Visit 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z All of this is rendered in a style rich in idioms and poetic allusions, which have always been the greatest challenge to Murasaki’s translators. ‘The Tale of Genji’: The work of a brilliant widow 1,000 years ago 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z As long as we’re spitballing literary allusions, consider George Orwell’s Animal Farm, which posited that pigs would overthrow their landowner and commence to squabbling murderously among themselves. REVIEW: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Who Needs Humans? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z It’s such a challenge to reach them, in fact, that “princess in a tower syndrome sets in” — one of many fairy-tale allusions that should set off your inner Brothers Grimm. Review | Helen Oyeyemi’s ‘Gingerbread’ recipe: Fairy tales with a dash of surrealism 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Fans of Mitchell’s previous novels will enjoy the usual sprinkling of allusions and echoes, particularly a familiar character who wants to put a stop to these two “soul vampires,” but it won’t be easy. David Mitchell’s ‘Slade House’: A ghost story that began haunting Twitter 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Are they meant to be an allusion to “Alice in Wonderland”? New York Festivals, British Formula 2011-08-04T22:15:27Z When the others encased him in tires at the end, that locally derived allusion to the “necklacing” executions prevalent in Ivory Coast was both horrifying and global enough. Dance Review: Michel Kouakou’s Choreography Has Echoes of Ivory Coast 2012-11-19T22:51:01Z But — blasphemy — readers starting with “Utopia Avenue” are bound to feel baffled or irritated by a number of highly elliptical allusions. Review | In David Mitchell’s splendid ‘Utopia Avenue,’ a ’60s rock band finds its groove 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z And while they might not understand the movie allusions that swarm through “Rango,” children will immediately recognize its animal planet as the synthetic product of human animation. Film: All Creatures Great and Lizardy, and Humans, Too 2011-03-18T21:35:47Z Printed versions of the libretto have detailed footnotes citing not just the source of the text but the musical allusions. ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’: An affectionate comic opera look at the high court 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Amid the Australia-based band’s countless allusions to sex, bad women and the rigors of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle are many trigger-happy protagonists living outside the law -- or attempting to unsnarl themselves from its constraints. AC/DC, the law and Phil Rudd's alleged murder-for-hire plot 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Entering the gallery’s backyard, you step through the looking glass into a space dense with allusions to literature, history, anthropology and more. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z The problem was simply that my unfamiliarity with the novel's many classical music terms and allusions was more than my concentration was up to. Take out holiday reading insurance: stick to novellas 2010-07-21T12:38:00Z The production’s hip-hop aesthetic of sampling flaunts its freedom and wit with a range of allusions. Review: A Hip-Hop Take on Shakespeare’s Star-Crossed Lovers 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Crazy or not, he produced exceptionally inventive art, outsiderish in its oddity but formally sophisticated and ripe with historical allusions. Art Review: ?The Art of Dissent in 17th-Century China? at the Met Museum - Review 2011-09-08T22:36:02Z The site provides an atmospheric allusion to the museum’s dynamic ambitions. Web Site Review: The Metropolitan Museum?s New Web Site 2011-10-06T22:45:35Z Granted, Civil War has plenty of allusions, callbacks, flashbacks, and narrative bricklaying, but it accomplishes it with a semblance of elegance that renders it close to seamless. How audiences can triumph in the battle for superhero movie supremacy 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z As usual, I’m drawn to the occasional literary allusions that are presented. How an impeachment unfolds: Inside the 1974 Nixon hearings, day by day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z I thoroughly enjoyed the show, but it was definitely thinking-cap theater, involving long monologues about the fascinations of prime numbers, jokey allusions to string theory and more. It?s Been a Gloomy Summer on New York Stages 2010-07-28T17:57:00Z If indeed Pasteur said the line, the reference to “the terrain” was an allusion to the “terrain” of the human body, and to the immune system in particular. The Deadliness of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak Was Not Inevitable 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z But its best movie allusion comes in the episode Contemporary American Poultry. The Martian lands in Marvel: the most brazen TV ripoffs of movies 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z More than a mere reimagining of the primary text, “The Meursault Investigation” is layered with allusions to Camus’s life and his other work. An Algerian novelist takes on Camus in ‘The Meursault Investigation’ 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z He initially defended his decision to run the letter, citing Trump campaign commercials that made similar allusions, but then apologized following a boycott threat, saying he recognized “the exceeding sensitivity in the community to this.” They wanted to hear their readers’ opinions. Then the proslavery guy wrote a letter to the editor. 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z 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. The Best and Worst of Cannes, Maybe Coming to a Theater Near You 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Now, the trick is to see the life in them, once we squint past the visually overwhelming chaos of Element City, a smelting pot of puns and allusions. ‘Elemental’ Review: Sparks Fly 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Some are full of diluted strains of art history: assorted trickle-down styles, vague allusions, instinctive adaptations or absorptions of things in the air. Still Life: Flea Market Paintings as Art Discoveries 2012-08-28T16:24:10Z Wittgenstein’s last words were “I’ve had a wonderful life,” we learn, “which might’ve been a Frank Capra allusion, because he loved Hollywood films.” Review: In ‘The Undertaking,’ Considering the End With Some Laughter 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z And I argue that even though he’s world-famous and globally acclaimed, he’s really underrated for the kind of sophisticated nuanced deployment of homophones, metonymy, simile, metaphor, braggadocio, allusion. Jay-Z is ‘Robert Frost with a Brooklyn accent,’ a Georgetown professor writes in his new book 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z That divide is sometimes a matter of self-preservation, as witness the novel's many allusions to police torture, political executions and ethnic massacres while its characters negotiate 43 years of Turkey's turbulent history. 'Strangeness in My Mind' explores Istanbul with the eyes of an amiable Everyman 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z “Air Above Mountains, Unknown Pleasures,” Mr. Jafa’s second show at Gavin Brown, is altogether different — a dense orchestration of artworks, subjects and allusions. Arthur Jafa’s Profound Meditations on Black America 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Many a cultural allusion has been made in recent weeks by journalists seeking to give some structure to what we former English A-level students call a freeform narrative of an election. | Hadley Freeman 2010-05-12T08:00:00Z In the years since that day, much has been made of the use of the iconography of terror as an allusion to travesty in movies. Disaster Films Plague the Box Office 2013-07-19T18:26:49Z It’s an elliptical allusion to – I think – equal pay and #MeToo in the industry. Daisy Ridley: ‘JJ Abrams warned me that Star Wars is a religion’ 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z At worst, which is most of the time, the Translator spells out the obvious, ruining the silences, allusions and, yes, lies that undergird many conversations, and by extension theater. Review: ‘Golden Shield’ Is an Exercise In Miscommunication 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z He’s crammed a great deal into this film, including cinematic allusions and theatrical lore. ‘Asteroid City’ Review: Our Town and Country 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Kawakubo’s clothes seem to simultaneously invite allusions and refuse them. Rei Kawakubo, the Nearly Silent Oracle of Fashion 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Indeed, for all its allusions to murder and drugs, this is Harlem’s gangster culture glazed with more humor than blood. Review | With ‘Harlem Shuffle,’ Colson Whitehead proves once again that he’s a master of reinvention 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z The madcap, vividly dramatic "Yowzie" includes allusions to some of those early dances even as it resonates with contemporary dilemmas. Twyla Tharp is marking her 50-year anniversary by looking ahead 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Scrambling to catch every esoteric aside and obscure allusion, you won’t be surprised to learn that Chapman runs trivia parties in New York. Review | ‘Riots I Have Known’ is criminally funny 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z Forty-seven songs; more than 20,000 words; fast-paced lyrics, abundant wordplay, complex rhyming patterns, plus allusions not only to hip-hop and musical theater but also to arcane aspects of early American history. They Translated ‘Hamilton’ Into German. Was It Easy? Nein. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z In its sources and allusions, the concert took for granted the broad-spectrum musical erudition of current composers: hip-hop, medieval motets, Broadway, Impressionism, dubstep. Review: Julia Holter and the Spektral Quartet in the Ecstatic Music Festival 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z As an allusion to hurricane-induced homelessness, this was too obvious, too easy. Dance Review: Simone Forti’s ‘That Fish Is Broke’ at Danspace Project 2012-11-14T16:40:57Z There are biblical allusions to Jesus, Mary, Judas and perhaps another disciple, but the story line is muddled and hard to interpret. Kenneth MacMillan’s School of Ballet Sex, Neurosis and Grit 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Asked if that was an allusion to Donald J. Trump’s proposal to build a wall between the United States and Mexico, Mr. Tranter said, “That phrase is definitely on purpose.” How the Orlando Charity Single ‘Hands’ Went From Idea to Reality 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Despite its troubled affect and a couple of jolting outbursts, it is not histrionic music; it always looks inward in its search for associations, allusions and meaning. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z The more it is identified, the more complex the networks of signification become, and once-hidden histories of reference and allusion emerge with new clarity. Perspective | LGBT artists sent messages from the closet to survive before Stonewall. Now, homophobes are coopting the technique. 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z 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. ‘I’m Not Here’ Review: J.K. Simmons Stars in a Superficial Study of Regret 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z That he is trailed by a fug of damaging allusions: Burisma. Perspective | Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and the politics of unconditional love 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z And the novel is brightly studded with allusions not just to “Hamlet” but also to “Macbeth,” “Lolita,” “A Tale of Two Cities,” Montaigne’s essays, Dante, Nietzsche and Kafka. Review: ‘Nutshell,’ a Tale Told by a Baby-to-Be (or Not-to-Be) 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z 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. Ismail Kadare Grapples With the Supernatural 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Yet Calvino's writing was already marked by a fabulous gothic undertow, with allusions to medieval artists such as Hieronymus Bosch and Albrecht Atldorfer. Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 – review 2013-05-29T13:42:12Z Is it an allusion to the Christmas story? My favourite Christmas film: Christmas Holiday 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z But of course, that description — with its allusion to Christ — opens only to greater mystery. As a house burns, its residents are sustained by memories in ‘Night of Fire’ 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z For the first hundred pages, all is atmosphere and allusion. Review | ‘Warlight’ is a quiet new masterpiece from Michael Ondaatje 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z In Barzun’s eyes, the drama of sport clearly motions towards the arc of the human condition: The rules keep pace with this imaginative creation so rich in allusions to real life. Opening Day: Spring’s other religious holiday 2013-04-01T22:13:00Z He speculatively connects that with fantasies about opium dens popularized in stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, among others, which “paved the way for the appearance of symbolic allusions to the unconscious and to death.” Review: ‘Flaming June’ Arrives in New York, Preceded by Its Reputation 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The play brings no discernible point of view, no contemporary perspective beyond a winking Viagra allusion and a self-congratulatory coda, and no social context that couldn’t be gleaned in a quick Wiki hit. | 'The Deep Throat Sex Scandal': Trials Caused by a Pornographic Film Are Brought to Life 2010-10-11T21:13:00Z In its message to Mr. Fiore in December, the company cited his cartoon’s allusions to torture and to last year’s White House party crashers as examples. Pulitzer Winner Gets Apple?s Reconsideration for iPhone 2010-04-16T23:49:00Z This is a direct and clear allusion to white male anxieties and racial stereotypes about the black male body and ownership over, as well as access to, white women's bodies. Has Trump wrecked our sex life? "Post-Trump Sex Disorder" is real, says sex therapist 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z It also has enough cinematic allusions to give critics something to chew on. ‘The Suicide Squad’ Review: Train Them! Excite Them! Arm Them! 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z “I incorporate subjective allusions into my work,” he told The Chicago Tribune in 1994. Nelson Shanks, Who Painted the Prominent, Dies at 77 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z True, the narration that bookends the show includes gabbled allusions to Chekhov’s life: apparently there are some incidental connections between him and a Russian baron in Lugano, Switzerland, whence hails Mr. Finzi Pasca. Theater Review: ‘Donka: A Letter to Chekhov,’ by Daniele Finzi Pasca, at BAM 2012-11-16T22:50:08Z In his magisterial study, The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell takes issue with In Parenthesis's extreme levels of allusion, judging it "an honourable miscarriage". The first world war's great novelist: David Jones 2011-02-04T13:58:23Z There are also biblical allusions and an evocation of the supposed origins of Aids. Rise of the Planet of the Apes; Project Nim ? review 2011-08-13T23:05:34Z No, it was not an allusion to the debt-ridden state of the Italian economy but rather the flowing weightlessness, or, as the designer said, the “absence of gravity” of her dresses. Gucci's Orgy of Gorgeousness 2012-09-19T17:33:55Z The three pilots this week have a lot of charm, and not just because the actors are appealing and deft at rattling off clever, rapid-fire dialogue and acerbic pop culture allusions. ‘Selfie,’ ‘A to Z’ and Others Refresh the Romantic Comedy 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z On his previous work he has sometimes come across as one of those men in his song, out to dazzle with clever allusions and involuted forms. New Music: ?SuperHeavy,? With Mick Jagger, and ?Where Are the Arms? - Review 2011-09-19T22:39:18Z The horse and cow surrounding the baby reference the source of serum but also create a clear allusion to a manger scene. Detroit museum roars back with powerful exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z “I want to write it down before I forget it” is there, too — an allusion to his plans to embark on some as-yet-undefined writing project. After 40 years on the air in Washington, Arch Campbell says goodbye — sort of Apart from this and the occasional fleeting allusion to romance — “haven’t kissed a boy in 209 days” — very little in here is of a personal nature, the sorts of things that typically fill teenage diaries. Taylor Swift’s Diary Entries Are a Must-Read Companion to ‘Lover’ 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Throughout the "Polar Chapters" there are allusions to mystical forces that court the men. Guardian First Book Award reader nominations: Dead Men by Richard Pierce 2012-07-18T14:04:46Z Facing such Goliaths, Mr. Fechter fires every literary allusion in his arsenal without ever nourishing any idea or observation into a coherent and full-bodied play. | 'Shakespeare?s Slave': A Love-Struck Romeo Finds Inspiration at Last 2011-06-01T21:11:06Z By the logic of “Certified Copy,” such allusions just affirm the originals’ value. What Makes Kiarostami a Modern Master? Start Here 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z She challenged the rigidity of Minimalism in the early ’70s with her hardened flows of polyurethane careening off walls and bristling with allusions to the body and landscape. Art: A Life of Melting the Status Quo 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z Halfway through a novel I might flip back to Chapter 1 to check a point or verify an allusion. Perspective | To read or reread? New books are alluring, but don’t discount the value of the familiar 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Berlin demurred at the idea, but a full-blown culture war sprouted over the two songs, with coded and overt allusions to the “strange and specious substitute for religion” that resulted in “God Bless America.” The Man Who Was American Music 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Earlier this month Drake released his own track with faint religious allusions, “Amen,” with rapper Meek Mills. Exodus 23:1: The Bible Verse Inspiring Rap Lyrics—and a Rap Feud 2012-05-25T10:45:25Z The original film’s flurry of joking pop-cultural references has become a white-out blizzard of allusions. Review: ‘Hot Tub Time Machine 2’ Heads Back to the Bubbles 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z So the train reference qualifies as an earnest literary allusion. Review: Jill Alexander Essbaum’s ‘Hausfrau,’ a Good Wife, With a Few Caveats 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z The multi-tiered wine fountain sprouting in the center could be seen as a sobering allusion to the purifying blood of Christ — but that only heightens the surrounding rainbow-colored action apparently in need of absolution. 'Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV': Splendid pomp and circumstance at the Getty 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Until the 1910s, aspiring literati devoted themselves to writing poetry, in an elliptical classical Chinese infused with millennia of allusions; vernacular fiction was scorned as a disreputably popular form. Rereading: Lu Xun's The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z 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. Laurel Halo Shakes Up Her Sound After Partnering With a Humanoid Pop Star 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z There is one obviously jarring effect of this landscape melange, apart from the weight of its own allusions. Review | The Haupt Garden demands constant work, and isn’t worth it 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z If rock lyrics were not poetry, they were "writing," real writing, with "tropes and devices," "rhetorical strategies," "allusions and imagery." Dylan inducted as honorary member of arts academy 2013-05-16T22:40:10Z To judge from these, any borrowings from “The Rite,” or allusions to it, are subtle, and little of its violence remains. Review: New York Philharmonic and Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble Join Forces 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Even in translation it's clear that there are many jokes and allusions that a non-Magyar will miss. The Finno-Ugrian Vampire by Noémi Szécsi – review 2012-10-12T21:55:02Z It’s the kind of regional homage that one might find at the fair, but also an allusion to the false impression of household bliss that the mastery of the “domestic arts” might imply. And the Blue Ribbon Goes to ... Anissa Mack 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z For all its echoes and allusions, “La La Land” is too lively and too earnest for mere pastiche. Review: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone Aswirl in ‘La La Land’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Perhaps . . . the magazine’s title and allusions flaunted the libertine ideal a little too brazenly.” Sex at the Satan Club 2014-03-08T00:00:00Z "He was my daddy — and my father and my daddy were two different people," he adds, in allusion to his birth parent Paul Haffer who disappeared from the family's life by 1932. Virna Haffer's son sheds light on her artistry 2011-09-25T21:47:04Z Even the pieces without such explicit figuration have auras of architectural allusion. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z That the phrase “phone home” is “a playful allusion to the Spielberg movie about an extraterrestrial named ‘ET’ who was trying to find his way home.” Review | Attention, Tom Hanks: Dan Brown’s new novel, ‘Origin,’ is ready for you 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z This surreal novel balances the lingering effects of immigration, family trauma and violence with highbrow allusions and humor. 13 Books to Watch For in June 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z The spirit of allusion extends to the casting: Sissy Spacek, forty-two years after “Carrie,” jitters through the role of a widow afflicted with dementia. “Castle Rock,” Reviewed: A Grab Bag of Stephen King Tropes Is Freshest When It Confronts the Real World 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z She populates her exacting free verse with deft classical allusion, with food, with nature, with fellow human beings and with abject majesty. Books of The Times: Louise Glück: ‘Poems 1962-2012’ 2012-11-08T22:39:48Z But each used literary and cultural allusions to tempt the viewer into a more interactive experience. 'True Detective' turns cautious at the beginning of Season 2 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z There's an allusion there to streaming and digital . CNN’s Brian Stelter reflects on “The View” venom and leaving Trump out of “The Morning Show” 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Johnson asks a friend who has just made a veiled allusion. Better than Bryan Cranston? Star of South Coast Rep's 'All the Way' delivers a most convincing LBJ 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z “Sisters” moves quickly, and the less practiced reader may be slower to discern a narrative trajectory that leans on allusions to other works. A Second Wife Haunted by the Shadow of Her Husband’s First 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Thrown in for good measure are some allusions to “Gilligan’s Island” and Disney’s “The Little Mermaid.” Caliban and the Taliban? Shakespeare as you’ve never imagined. 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Hence the dual allusions of “Holding the Man,” Australian actor and activist Timothy Conigrave’s memoir; the title also references a soccer term for a penalty-incurring violation. 'Holding the Man' a deeply personal exploration of the heart 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z A little audience participation is also thrown in, as are some historical and literary allusions. Theater Review: In Drag for 90 Years: ‘Vaudevillians’ at Beechman Theater 2013-08-11T21:12:07Z For years, Sagawa—the pen name is written with the characters for “left” and “river,” likely an allusion to the left bank of the Seine—was barely read. The Startling Poetry of a Nearly Forgotten Japanese Modernist 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Nolan is occasionally described as the inheritor of Stanley Kubrick's mantle, and there are allusions. Inception 2010-07-15T21:09:00Z The villains were much smarter than the heroes, and if they made some literary allusion to something, and if you actually read the book they were talking about, you were like, Wow, this is interesting. Creating “Luke Cage,” the First Woke Black-Superhero Show 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Along with its classical allusions, it melds the fable-like haze of Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” with a heady drag of noir. Review | Yan Ge’s ‘Strange Beasts of China’ is a luminous, beguiling chronicle of fantastical beings 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Despite all the prog allusions and big concepts, it turns out what Nero are really good at is something all the prog allusions and big concepts suggest they might disdain: pop music. Nero: Welcome Reality - review 2011-08-04T14:30:01Z He went on to produce poems that combined classical allusion and vivid everyday detail, and explored history, conflict and personal demons. Derek Mahon, whose poem consoled during pandemic, dies at 78 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z You could not miss the striking allusions to Stravinsky in Mr. Boulez’s splendid score. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s Contact! Series at the Met 2012-06-10T22:10:56Z He has world affairs and literary allusions at his fingertips. John Oliver Introduces ‘Last Week Tonight’ on HBO 2014-04-23T12:58:15Z Below is a guide to some of its many allusions and shout-outs. A Pop-Culture Glossary for ‘Da 5 Bloods’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z The plane, the sculpture, the allusions: it is difficult to imagine the same objects on display elsewhere having the same effect. Museum Review: Museum of History & Industry Reopens in Seattle 2012-12-29T01:25:41Z The allusion to the "Icaria sky" suggests both the myth and its setting. Poem of the week: 'Time has disappeared/Lo temps s'es perdut' by Aurélia Lassaque 2013-02-11T11:28:12Z That fairly direct allusion has been remarkably little noted, at least in print. The Unlikely Story of “A Change Is Gonna Come” 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Elsewhere the allusions feel more rooted in the realm of music, as when “House of Metal” coalesces around a dolorous, slow-to-unfold arpeggio, evoking Portishead. New Music: Albums From Neko Case, Ariana Grande, Gorguts and Chelsea Wolfe 2013-09-02T21:24:22Z Yet again, Mr. Kosinski fails to build on his materials and the allusions soon fade. Movie Review: ‘Oblivion,’ With Tom Cruise 2013-04-18T22:11:58Z But for McCartney, the most feminine of designers, the menswear allusions were only hinted at. Stella McCartney restyles pinstripes; Paul is late 2013-03-04T16:33:14Z Still, this concerto requires differentiation between the many allusions and influences that Shostakovich crams together. Osmo Vanska Conducts the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z Mr Yves-Ferri said there was an allusion to the independence referendum debate, showing all the clans divided and uniting. Scotland inspires new Asterix author 2013-06-28T05:40:07Z The lengthy speechifying — in language packed with allusions to ancient mythology — is as stiff as the songs are rowdy. ‘Nero/Pseudo’ by WSC Avant Bard fiddles away its glam-rock musical potential In a letter to The Telegraph Mr. Horovitz wrote that Mr. Lewis’s list “was at first sight quite intriguing, but contained few allusions to actual poetry.” When Titans Clash: Poets Edition 2010-06-15T15:38:00Z The exhibit was closed a few days after it opened after a group of altar boys defaced many of the contemporary paintings, which used religious allusions to express attitudes toward religion, culture and the state. Moscow curators face 3 years in prison 2010-07-07T12:28:00Z In its various genre allusions, it draws from a deep, idiosyncratic well. Review: Cults, Demons and Nicolas Cage in ‘Mandy’ 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z “Mitt Romney self-deported himself from the White House,” she wrote, an allusion to his plan to fix the immigration system by asking the undocumented to deport themselves. Ana Navarro and the P-Word 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z But to an American student reading it in 1993, the allusion was opaque. In Ireland, Chasing the Ghost of the Rebel Roger Casement 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Overall, though, The Whispering Muse is less dense with allusion and historical seepage than previous novels such as The Blue Fox and From the Mouth of the Whale. The Whispering Muse by Sjón – review 2012-06-22T21:55:06Z Despite the allusions to narcotics, the flowers, which nestle on sculptural bases reminiscent of Fabergé objets de vertu, are to be taken not as portrayals of drugs but as prompts for overheated narratives. | Fashion Diary: Drug-Fueled Fantasies (Without the Drugs) 2011-03-07T22:08:44Z To an unusual degree, it spun a kind of clockwork ecosystem, teeming with portentous allusions, callbacks and foreshadowing that encouraged the most passionate viewers to scrutinize its every frame. Meet the ‘Better Call Saul’ Staffers Who Kept Its Story Straight 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Judging by your allusion to dates you’ve managed two wives and three children in less than a decade. My ex-wife is angry that I’m happy with my new partner 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z At times, he bases his claim for Kissingerian idealism on a highly technical allusion to the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Ideas man 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z But usually, Rushdie’s allusions are more philosophical than historical, and his critique of Islamofascism — really, religious fanaticism in all its colors — is draped in silk scarves of comedy. Salman Rushdie’s new novel is a swirling tale of genies and geniuses 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Dylan instantly became a fountainhead of aphorisms and allusions himself, a writer other writers would build upon until, generations later, his wild innovations were just part of an American heritage. Bob Dylan: America’s Great One-Man Songbook 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The poem bursts with allusions to sunflowers, lilies and pansies. Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America by Roy Morris Jnr – review 2013-02-15T14:01:01Z 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. Review: An African Dance Matriarch Brings Out the Knives 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Its building, by James Ingo Freed, was acclaimed from the first; its allusions to 1940s Brutalist architecture and evocations of an industrial enterprise going about its horrific work do not descend into cliché. Exhibition Review: ‘Some Were Neighbors,’ at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 2013-04-25T22:05:38Z For example, that title, is it an allusion to Gertrude Stein's remark about Oakland, California: "There is no 'there', there." Sofia Coppola: 'Is this psychoanalysis?' 2010-12-01T21:30:00Z Outlandish dreamscapes now structure the narrative, full of dire allusions to the characters’ pasts and futures, drawing out the darker regions of their psyches. ‘JFK’ Envisions an Operatic Ending for Camelot 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z “My dad liked a painting of a woman named Eulabee Dix,” she explains in one of the text’s magpie assortment of cultural allusions, this one to an early-20th-century American painter of portrait miniatures. Her Best Friend Claims They Witnessed a Sex Crime. She Has Her Doubts. 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z The crass and unearned allusions to Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy are just reminders of how much better those films were. Marriage Story and The Irishman deserve awards love, but no Greta Gerwig is heart-sinking | Peter Bradshaw 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z 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. When Fake News Was Funny 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z This is string-band music in the digital era, with riffs like loops and allusions to fiddle tunes, dance music and deep gospel. The Playlist: Jay Z Sips Lemonade and Adele Divides and Conquers 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z A hand scroll dealing with the traditional theme of the “Noble Horse” that symbolized the scholar-official, depicts a gaunt stallion with salient ribs, a transparent allusion to the artist’s distress. Review: Groundbreaking Picture of China 2010-11-19T12:36:00Z For that work too is full of such allusions to earlier music, from Beethoven’s to some of Shostakovich’s own works. At chamber-music fest, program and performance in harmony 2013-01-22T18:54:33Z He was a master of the extended peroration, peppered with literary allusions, and of the bright, off-the-cuff remark. Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011: Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 ? Obituary 2011-12-16T06:27:29Z Along the way, the film offers faint allusions to economic change in China. ‘But Always,’ by Snow Zou, Follows a Couple Across Decades 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The sentient, sensitive, possibly treacherous robot is hardly a novelty in this kind of movie, and David is partly a collage of cinematic allusions. Movie Review: ‘Prometheus,’ by Ridley Scott, With Noomi Rapace 2012-06-07T12:44:28Z She decided to create a tribe of 12, an allusion to the biblical Jacob’s 12 sons. Buzz Over Ayana Mathis’s ‘Twelve Tribes of Hattie’ 2012-12-10T22:42:33Z That sounds more promising than what transpires in the movie, a busy, noisy clutter of action sequences, pop-cultural allusions, life lessons and cute critters. ‘The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part’ Review: Everything Is Not Awesome. Everything Is an Ad. 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z One thing is clear: Throughout “Bottle Grove,” he is not in control of his larks and allusions. A Series of Unfortunate Events 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z “Chinese readers would instantly recognize many of these allusions,” Rojas writes in a note to the text, but he’s decided to italicize them so English-language readers will know they are encountering Communist rhetoric. Cheat on Your Partner or Change the World: In This Novel, It’s All the Same 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z 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. How Did Rumi Become One of Our Best-Selling Poets? 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z To help answer any lingering D&D questions you might still have going into “Honor Among Thieves,” Daley and Goldstein explained some of the movie’s more arcane nods and allusions. A Beginner’s Guide to Dungeons & Dragons 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z There are also a number of more direct allusions to contemporary art. When Spider-Man Met Jeff Koons 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z The historical allusions kept on coming, as muddled as the merch and the metaphors. The Trump campaign held a Halloween ‘Witch Hunt Party’ and tortured a metaphor to death 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the theme of the Inquisition will be stripped of any allusions to the Roman Catholic Church and rather be depicted as a secret, oppressive power. An Opera That Travels Through Time 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z On four previous albums, Clogs — a quartet completed by Rachael Elliott, a bassoonist, and Thomas Kozumplik, a percussionist — blended a chamber music transparency and poise with rustic melodies, ethnic allusions and nimble improvisation. Hybrid Sounds by Clogs, Slow Six and Redhooker 2010-04-16T19:52:00Z The Dalí painting is filled with classical allusions, possibly reflecting the stories being written about her Capri villa. Salvador Dalí portrait of Mona Bismarck up for auction at Sotheby's 2013-01-27T18:00:03Z No, he stands like a statue, bloviating in verse about her suffering, piling up pretty metaphor upon classical allusion for what seems like an eternity. | 'Titus Andronicus': ?Titus Andronicus? at Public Lab - Review 2011-12-14T03:01:00Z The quote was an allusion to the 2011 feature film "The Help," in which Davis played a maid in the South in the early 1960s. People magazine retracts 'stupid & insensitive' Viola Davis tweet 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z That Schumer’s book title parodies the popular but highbrow Swedish crime novel “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is not just some random literary allusion. Reading Amy Schumer: The powerful missed message in “The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo” 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z As “Mad Men” hurtles like a Chevy toward its conclusion, on Sunday, fans have been working overtime decoding its pop-culture and literary allusions. Cultural Clicks: "Mad Men," the Radical Art of Chris Burden, and the Momofuku Empire 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Europeans are more likely than Americans to catch the poignant allusion in O’Brien’s title, “The Little Red Chairs.” Review: Edna O’Brien’s ‘The Little Red Chairs’ confronts Radovan Karadzic 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z “The Simpsons,” for instance, with its jovial, animated exterior barely obscures a deeper layer of social satire and allusion. The Hidden Depths of Sandra Boynton’s Board Books 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Mind-blowing allusions to America’s history of slavery and segregation. Perspective | Melvin Van Peebles was my father, too 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z “Obsolescence” shows a sidewalk mailbox with its open lower compartment revealing an empty interior, an allusion to the triumph of email. Review: Vern Blosum, ‘Late Work’ 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Still, even without understanding all of the historical allusions, it’s possible to grasp Eliot’s implication that the provincial society she is portraying is, for the most part, reflexively conservative. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z In amongst the totalitarian paraphernalia there are allusions to witches and princesses, as well as to stage scenery. Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner – review 2012-12-28T22:55:01Z The music stays nimble, with hopscotching melodies and arrangements that merge perky new wave with Minimalism, Baroque music and Afropop: enough allusions to rival the name dropping in the lyrics. The Week Ahead: Sept. 12 ? Sept. 18 2010-09-10T15:37:00Z It taps your temple with metaphor, allusion and maybe an oblique tease. That’s the Funny Thing About Grief 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z “Bachelor” host Chris Harrison, however, does not find the show’s allusions to his own franchise so flattering. Chris Harrison despises “Bachelor”-inspired show “UnREAL”: “They would love to jump on our coattails” 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z As a bonus, the book’s redoubtable editor, Edward M. Burns, identifies every name, reference and allusion, elevating his sometimes essaylike notes into an integral, invaluable part of the correspondence itself. Review | The most intellectually exhilarating work of the year 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z “Black Panther the Album” is very nearly as densely packed — with ideas, allusions and ambitions — as one of Mr. Lamar’s official solo albums. Kendrick Lamar Gives ‘Black Panther’ a Weighty Soundtrack 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z The differences are in his quiet allusions to less Starbucks-ready subjects. Sam Smith aims to please at a sold-out Greek Theatre 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z There are allusions to poetry and prose throughout the story. Andrea Lee on Cross-Cultural Encounters 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z As should be obvious to anyone who reads comics regularly, writers from the United Kingdom make far more literary allusions than American ones. Comics: Annotated 'Sandman' enhances Neil Gaiman series 2012-01-05T19:20:04Z But most of the show was strained attempts at wisecracks, mixed in with misfiring allusions to passing time and regrets. Review: Three Dance Legends Walk Into a Church … 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z This is possibly the first allusion to game designers in a major philosophical text. A designer's take: Moma is wrong to pretend video games are art 2013-03-07T13:30:00Z We included “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek, a host who’s made cryptic allusions to his political beliefs–in a recent New Republic profile, for instance. Alex Trebek tells Salon: Humans are causing climate change! 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z But the allusions are more hat tips than anything else. Music Review: Honoring Nils Vigeland at Symphony Space 2010-05-05T22:25:00Z The music takes a pastiche approach to pop: art as allusion. Ssion, a D.I.Y. Hero of the Technicolor Underground, Returns Refreshed 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Secondly, if Florio "censored" a possible allusion to himself in Hamlet, might he not have removed other possible slights elsewhere – in relation to Shylock, perhaps, or Malvolio in Twelfth Night? Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z In any case many of them would have registered the allusion to Giorgione’s picnic scene, except that Manet replaced pastoral poetry with a modern-dress farce, its focus drifting purposely in and out. Manet?s Reflections of Paris at a Cultural Peak 2011-05-16T13:33:21Z The Guantánamo allusions recede quickly, though, as we discover that the prisoners are aliens, not in the sense of immigration laws but rather because their passports do not suggest birth on this planet. Critic?s Notebook: Good Guy Up Against the Aliens and Sheen 2011-03-06T23:03:34Z Riccardo Tisci also had undulating shapes in his Givenchy show, with allusions to the sea and diving gear in the form of stretch pants with zips and dripping bits of fabric. Fashion Review: Chlo?, Givenchy, Herm?s, John Galliano, Stella McCartney: Fashion Review 2011-10-03T23:34:47Z This allusion to “The Night of the Hunter” can be seen as a cineaste tribute, as one great filmmaker nodding at another. One Indelible Scene: A Donkey’s Escape in ‘EO’ 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z An opera bearing such a name conjures a swirl of allusions even before the first note is struck, the first word uttered. Blood, sand and tears: A foreign correspondent's view of the opera 'Fallujah' 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Rather than standing up to torture for the sake of true love, she is showered with presents by Selim as an ironic allusion to “Glitter and Be Gay,” Leonard Bernstein’s Mozartean parody in “Candide.” Abducting Mozart's 'Abduction From the Seragilo' to another time 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z It is a lyrical allusion to the ongoing effects of colonialism. Kanye may not like books, but hip-hop fosters a love of literature 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z “We would listen to them, bursting with laughter — laughter that would stick in our throats as the tragic allusion that surmounted each sarcasm would dawn on us.” Dario Fo, Nobel-Winning Italian Playwright, Dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Less crude than earlier books, there are still plenty of adult allusions to keep parents amused. Andy Griffiths, the Down-Under Kids’ Author Known for His Butt Jokes, Now Builds and Builds on His Hit ‘Treehouse’ Series 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z An allusion to Noguchi’s shaky relationship with his father seems probable here. At the Frye: sublime cross-cultural influences 2014-03-12T21:52:00Z The dialogue is often obscure, arch and full of literary allusions. The Brothers Bloom 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Asked to decipher some cryptic allusions on his yearbook page, Kavanaugh referenced the popular comedies as a form of justification. Brett Kavanaugh goes to the movies 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z The song is built out of nonstop references and allusions to the history of black American culture and its relationship to the broader cultural landscape. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z So I included more allusions in Episodes 9 and 10 to the massacre at Sioux Falls and set up a few story points we’d have to match. Noah Hawley on ‘Fargo,’ Comic Haircuts and Living in the Coen Universe 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Arcade Fire has always been acutely conscious of music history, using stylistic allusions to underline or tease against its messages. On Arcade Fire’s ‘Everything Now,’ Pop Can Reach Deep 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z The work can be traditional or experimental, openly political or fervently private, with an array of allusions that might include Melvin Van Peebles, Jorge Luis Borges, David Bowie, Dr. Seuss and Mr. T. The Dark Room Collective: Where Black Poetry Took Wing 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z These personal narratives hover between abstraction and representation, with suggestions of fishing-baskets and other staples of Cambodian life alongside allusions to organs like the stomach and lungs — symbols of strength and fragility for Mr. Pich. Cambodian Art Emerges From Horrors of a Murderous Past 2010-12-29T15:30:02Z The ubiquity of the allusions is particularly interesting in contrast to the relative scarcity of straightforward actual adaptations. From ‘South Park’ to ‘Knives Out,’ Pop Culture Is Steeped With Sondheim 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z As you note, that song includes allusions to “Huckleberry Finn” and a Japanese gangster novel. Bob Dylan 101: A Harvard Professor Has the Coolest Class on Campus 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z 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. Lionel Shriver Imagines Imminent Economic Collapse, With Cabbage at $20 a Head 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Nabokov was a highbrow genre-changer, an originator of postmodern techniques: wordplay, stories constructed like puzzles, layers of allusion, tricks of misdirection. Three Blockbuster Novels From the 1950s, and Their Remarkable Afterlife 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z The range of allusion in Condo’s drawings is vast, and the artist’s ability to impersonate is impressive. Review | George Condo is not as complicated as he thinks he is 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z To stuff the movie with clever allusions and in-jokes for the Spider-Man fans, of course. “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” is a beautiful, bold, overstuffed melodrama 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Like other projects from Major Food Group, it is packed with ideas and historical allusions. The Grill Is Confident, Theatrical, Sharp and New Yorky 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z As I read “The Fortunes,” I wondered what someone unfamiliar with this history would make of a novel that was so meticulously and steadfastly Chinese-American—whether other readers would appreciate the allusions and subtle jokes. The Anxious, Unfinished Story of Chinese-American Assimilation 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Carroll appreciates the allusion to seafood and the reverence for sharks. Requin review: A witty chef’s smart spins on coastal French cuisine 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z That leaves us with the “Adam’s rib” bit, an allusion to the biblical origin story of women. Perspective | Republicans thought defining a ‘woman’ is easy. Then they tried. 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z In his New York Times review, Jesse Green called the streamed show “full of delight for our undelightful time” and praised the production’s allusions to the Trump White House and Black Lives Matter. Review: At ‘Tartuffe’ in the Park, Hypocrisy Is No Picnic 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z This kind of ambiguity is part of the fun: “Taxi” is full of wry jokes, surprising incidents and allusions to Mr. Panahi’s earlier work. Review: In ‘Taxi,’ a Filmmaker Pushes Against Iranian Censorship From Behind the Wheel 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The first of these allusions were jazz standards: “Body and Soul,” Freddie Hubbard’s “Up Jumped Spring.” Review: The Robert Glasper Trio Presents Moody Covers at the Village Vanguard 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z If he could just clear up a few of those muddled allusions, though, he could accomplish something worthwhile: show his huge audience that literature is thrilling, too. Dan Brown still can't write, but he deserves some respect 2013-05-16T11:45:00Z So how strange that this production, despite its modern dress, resists contemporary allusion entirely, reducing “Tartuffe” to a pedestrian domestic farce. Review: At ‘Tartuffe’ in the Park, Hypocrisy Is No Picnic 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z But he added that he and his co-writer might have “subconsciously” absorbed such allusions “even if we don’t really realize it.” At Cannes, a Greek Filmmaker Explains Move to English-Language Film 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z And her allusions to the strains of marriage in midlife are coy to the point of befuddling. 'When Women Were Birds': Grappling with a mother's parting gift 2012-04-11T22:26:06Z Later, she was joined by bass Mark Duer in a lusty performance of the “Peasant Cantata,” a virtual opera scene filled with allusions to folk song and dance. Review | Washington Bach Consort gives a cheerful performance fit for spring 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z The references to Flaubert, Dante and the Beckett homage aroused Henry's curiosity; these were the kind of literary allusions critics took seriously. Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel 2010-06-07T20:59:00Z The National Gallery itself teems with cryptic allusions to it. Leonardo da Vinci: art's mystery man 2011-07-13T15:38:22Z And Berg’s thorny “Seven Early Songs,” each a miracle of concision and allusion, might have been more precisely characterized. Review: Heidi Melton Debuts With a Daunting Recital Program 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Although there are allusions to a Trump-like fiend accelerating the country’s decay, Powers isn’t interested in exploring the full scientific and political complexity of our environmental catastrophe. Review | Fresh off a Pulitzer win for ‘The Overstory,’ Richard Powers delivers another environmental ode 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z If Mr. Monder seems complicit in that image, it’s probably because “Hydra” is an allusion to the many-headed water serpent in Greek mythology — and because he named two of his other albums “Oceana” and “Flux.” New Music: Dumpstaphunk, Five Finger Death Punch and Ben Monder 2013-07-29T22:08:11Z The allusion to keeping tomatoes in the refrigerator has a similar effect. Should I refrigerate my tomatoes? 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z In some movies, allusions to other movies build on earlier thinking or, at times, become an index of authorial self-regard, intended mostly to close the distance between the original and the copy. Review: ‘Chappie’: a Smart Robot in a Violent Future 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The trumpet soloist sings a song with the orchestra rather than against it, and the allusions to previously existing musics are seamlessly connected with the idiom that Neuwirth's own music creates. A guide to Olga Neuwirth's music 2012-08-07T13:53:21Z There should be more analytical detail about Colonial Revival here, as in the generally helpful companion book; it would help to be patiently shown the character of that grammar, tracing its allusions and its transformations. Exhibition Review: National Design That?s Hidden in Plain Sight 2011-06-13T22:41:43Z The works are fractured, a visual assault, but also carefully patterned and dense with historical allusions and suggestions of violence. As Galleries Reopen, Two Critics Find Rewards Eclipse the Angst 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Its theme is “69,” an allusion to the freedom of that year, which is the subject of several features. Front Row: Holiday, A Travel Magazine, Is Reborn 2014-03-26T21:46:38Z This might seem like a crazy idea but – in perhaps another allusion to Google – Ubatoo's corporate culture is so obsessed with innovation that its interns are allowed to roam free, so the project goes ahead. How Facebook could get you arrested 2013-03-09T19:20:01Z Statements which demand sympathy, like you “need them like I need air” and allusions to an unspecific breakdown won’t solve your woes. My three children say they never want to see me again | Dear Mariella 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z The ceremony was a celebration of Britishness and the notion of monarchy, filled with sweeping allusions to the outsize grandeur of these tiny islands in hymns, anthems and readings. Sealed with 2 kisses 2011-04-30T05:15:58Z The truth, of course, is vastly more complex: the cabinet of curiosities was always already a web of immaterial hunches and links and allusions as well as a real space full of real things. Things get curiouser and curiouser at the Turner Contemporary 2013-05-18T08:01:28Z It’s noticeable that Marina carries identity papers with her former male name, Daniel – not an allusion to Daniela Vega, insists the star, whose previous name was in any case entirely different. Daniela Vega: the transgender star lighting up the film industry 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z LA is now my home after the Daily Mail deplored my hilariously anarchic allusions to Andrew Sachs and at last I have found happiness. HarperCollins, ?20 2010-10-04T23:07:00Z Beyond the easy pleasure of the Morse allusions, the tone and texture of the new work are substantially different: It’s blander, stiffer and more conventional, like many other well-made British period pieces. Television Review: Inspector Morse Returns in ‘Endeavour,’ a Prequel 2012-06-29T23:57:08Z The exhibition’s only allusion to performance art, they show her in front of a grated storefront conducting a three-card monte game. Art Review: The Art and Heart of the Dealer 2011-08-04T22:07:12Z I understand the distinction he was trying to draw between a war movie that draws on actual events and a violent spectacle in the Tarantino mode, drenched with irony and cinematic allusion. Weinstein, Tarantino and the standoff over movie violence 2014-02-01T19:30:00Z The Dutch composer Michel van der Aa proves a master of allusion in his chamber opera “Blank Out,” which received its North American premiere at the Park Avenue Armory on Thursday evening. Review: 3-D Enhances An Enigmatic New Opera 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Colescott, who, after serving in World War II, was dissuaded from studying international relations because of his race, turned to art, which he injected with fierce and funny allusions to injustice, sex, and history. Seattle Art Museum’s ‘Figuring History’ a powerful look at who is represented in art 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Neely also fires allusions that require multiple viewings, a pause button and a geeky obsessiveness to appreciate fully. Critic?s Notebook: In ?China, IL? on Cartoon Network, Authority Figures Go Wild 2012-02-18T01:27:28Z Bourgeois’s iconic spider sculptures, the artist said, were an allusion to her thread-weaving mother. A Look Inside Louise Bourgeois’s Home, Just How She Left It 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Despite its aspiration to topical relevance and the trendy allusion to Baldwin, this collage of dance theater is as thin as most postcards, and as banal. Review: A Message-Heavy Bill T. Jones Dance-Theater Collage 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Last year Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” video made subtle allusion to the film when she donned a Victorian white dress similar to the ones worn by the women in the film. What came before ‘Daughters of the Dust’: A new series focuses on little-known works from black female filmmakers 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z The young Holbein would quickly become Basel’s leading painter, and with the relatively new medium of oil paint he produced portraits whose persuasiveness came from a blend of technical verisimilitude and humanistic allusions. Hans Holbein: Truth in Painting 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Many of his allusions are specific to the time: that's the beauty of occasional verse, but, when it comes to staying-power, one of its disadvantages. Poem of the week: Twenty-eight and Twenty-Nine by Winthrop Mackforth Praed 2011-01-04T10:56:26Z In his plays and screenplays, he became especially adept at skirting Communist censorship through allusion and metaphor, though less subtle means were not beneath him. Janusz Glowacki, Polish Playwright of Terror and Dark Humor, Dies at 78 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Second, he includes a few vital gestures — like the allusion of an athletic hood or waistband — that keep the look connected to the present. Fashion Review: Diane Von Furstenberg, Thakoon, Zac Posen, Carolina Herrera, The Row, Derek Lam - Review 2012-02-14T00:37:06Z The setting is present-day Cambridge, England — where, we are reminded, in another allusion to the novel’s two narrative strands, “DNA history had been made.” ‘How to Be Both,’ by Ali Smith 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z It was a bitter, late-’60s twist on Dickens’s famous story of look-alikes switching places at the guillotine, and by now it is somewhat to be expected that the allusion is laid out elliptically. The TV Watch: Don Draper and Associates Wrap Up Season 6 2013-06-24T16:26:28Z The books bristle with allusions to other books and myths. ‘The Magician’s Land,’ the final volume of Lev Grossman’s Magicians Trilogy Either way, as with Hereditary, Midsommar feels like a highly considered piece of storytelling beneath the craziness – technically precise, meticulously designed, dense with allusions, clues, references and riddles. Midsommar: what the hell just happened? Discuss with spoilers 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z “In my projects, one can often find a clear allusion to architectural elements,” he said in an email. A Panorama of Design 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z The Cohen song that became an unlikely pop perennial, “Hallelujah,” veers between biblical allusions and ecstatic sex. An Appraisal: Leonard Cohen, Master of Meanings and Incantatory Verse 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z As well as being graphic about its sexual violence — and violence in general — the novel is long, dense, ornate in diction and full of sophisticated literary allusions. ‘My Absolute Darling’: A brutal, tremendous novel about a tough teen girl 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Its connecting tissues include strong color, loosely enforced geometries, a tactile use of materials and a high tolerance for reference and allusion to other two-dimensional conventions, including map making and weaving. Art in Review: ?KATHERINE BERNHARDT, ALFRED JENSEN, CHRIS JOHANSON, CHRIS MARTIN, ANDREW MASULLO ANDJUDITH SCOTT? 2011-07-14T22:26:52Z The only allusions to the bomb’s effects here are a couple of photographs of craters. Art Review: Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Black and White 2011-06-30T21:47:55Z The allusion quickly turns into an evisceration of that movie’s gauzy romanticism when Amy jokes that she thinks this is where “Woody Allen met Soon-Yi.” Review: ‘Trainwreck’ Delivers the Full Amy Schumer Experience 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Perhaps, too, there's an allusion to the cursed difficulty of writing a poem which, without a false note, celebrates the post-industrial English civilities of riverside parkland, sports pitches, strolling couples and kite-flyers. Poem of the week: Otterspool Prom by Peter Robinson 2013-02-18T11:19:21Z You might hear the shadow influence of second-wave Detroit techno on “Speak the Name” and “Beat the Ground” in their asymmetrical pulse patterns — but you don’t notice any insistence behind the allusion. Playlist: New Music by Craig Taborn Trio, J. D. Allen and Eric Church 2013-04-20T22:50:58Z But these allusions don’t detract; in fact, they indicate a compelling, unthreatened awareness. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Morgan’s predilection for allusion and allegory is stronger than ever in Season 5. ‘The Crown’ Review: Tempus Horribilis 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z He’s advanced the time to just after World War II, so there are cigarettes and mafia allusions and a Vespa. One Work of Dance, Theater and More to Experience This Weekend 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Even at a tender age, Frazee understood the power of a literary allusion. Going back to school with writers and the first things they wrote in 'Our Story Begins' 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z He embraced a more overtly expressive, immediate approach to music, rich with historical allusion, beholden to no system. Music Review: Salzburg Festival Features Wolfgang Rihm 2010-07-30T22:59:00Z This concert — his last solo performance — is full of tacit allusions to death, as well as a clear one. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Stone Temple Pilots and Steve Lacy 2010-05-30T21:14:00Z And since it is a novel by Fforde, there are allusions. A Brilliantly Funny and Slightly Bonkers New Novel From Jasper Fforde 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z 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. For the Young Couple in This Novel, the Stars Align, Then Explode 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The story finds Mr. Madoff meeting up with his guide, Verge, which, I suppose, is an allusion to Virgil. Theater Review: ‘User’s Guide To Hell Featuring Bernard Madoff’ by Project Y 2013-09-09T21:37:18Z The shadow, he said, was an allusion to the affair between Mr. Clinton and Ms. Lewinsky, who wore a blue dress during one of her sexual encounters with the president. Nelson Shanks, Who Painted the Prominent, Dies at 77 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Something darker lurked beneath his blue-and-white-striped button-down: a T-shirt emblazoned with “Buffalo Bill’s Skin Lotion,” an allusion to the serial killer in the film “The Silence of the Lambs.” The Horror and Happiness of Oliver Sim 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Fans of classic American literature will be tantalized by an allusion to “The Great Gatsby.” Perspective | What books to read this fall 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z “Star Wars” was, if anything, an even more self-conscious throwback, a film student’s act of promiscuous homage, a hodgepodge of styles and allusions. ‘Star Wars,’ Elvis and Me 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z For this Sunday, Winter Family Day, she finally settled on what you might call the art of allusion. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T01:34:36Z One chapter begins with an allusion to “hopscotch,” a metaphor she invokes for returning to the same subject, or point in time, armed with new knowledge. How Rebecca Solnit Found Her Voice 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Many of the movie’s themes are introduced in the first eight minutes, a masterpiece in miniature that is a palimpsest of literary, artistic and cinematic allusions. 1A. The Oscars: Manohla Dargis Looks at the Overture to ?Melancholia? 2011-12-30T17:03:44Z An acidic undercurrent darkens the work’s playful exterior; cheery Neo-Classical and Baroque allusions soon become dissonant and even nightmarish. Music Review: A Philharmonic Evening of Schnittke, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky 2012-03-30T21:34:43Z She is as comfortable singing the praises of hamburgers as she is souffle au calvados, as confident in her allusions to 1930s radio jingles as in her quotations from Andrew Marvell. ‘Eat, Live, Love, Die’: At 89, Betty Fussell’s hard-earned recipe for happiness 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z The hat, which included a hidden cellphone pocket, was also sewn with a crown of thorns inside, an allusion to the president’s assassination on Good Friday. On Famous Heads, High Season for Hats (and Hatmakers) 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Today the danger is that we look at the humor of “Antic Meet” with a new kind of earnestness, carefully parsing its possible allusions to Martha Graham and other bygone figures. Dance Review: A Golden Age Continues Without Its Midas 2011-03-23T22:27:34Z Subtext, allusion, nuance, dramatic irony: these were the smithies upon which mistakes were forged. The Cost of Defying the President 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Hana undulates in graceful color, an allusion to the waves on this remote section of Hawaii’s Maui island. Mesmerizing New Wallpapers by Designer Sara Story 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Each allusion has clearly recognizable roots, but Rosalía insists that their contrasts add up to something more: a common humanity, even if it’s digitally mediated. In 2022, Latin Pop Thrived on Innovation. Again. 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z The spring collections unveiled in Paris teem with allusions to the Japanese vanguard. Paying Homage to Japan?s Raw Edges 2010-10-07T00:18:00Z In his view, the "Temple of Mars," a classical allusion to the warrior's sphere, should not be eliminated or even reduced but, rather, better aligned with the world that the rest of us know. 'What It Is Like to Go to War': Karl Marlantes' unvarnished account of the highs, lows and tragedy of war 2011-09-07T20:06:04Z This endlessly enjoyable series, with its deep thoughts about justice and vengeance and charming classical allusions, can’t help making you smile. Headless Bodies, Faceless Corpses 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z 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. At Last, a Restaurant With That New-Car Smell 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Bruckner, his death at hand, reaffirms an unshakable faith in God with heavenward gestures and allusions to Wagner’s holy-quest drama, “Parsifal.” Music Review: A Chance to Hear Bruckner Anew, by Himself and With an Unexpected Partner 2011-07-18T22:00:36Z But other allusions to “Jaws” are less inevitable. Television Review: Ahab Has a Wife and a Heart. Oh, and a Whale. 2011-07-31T22:18:03Z Enough with the glancing references and coy allusions. Review | In Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Unsheltered,’ Trump is just the latest threat to Earth’s survival 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Rihm likes to fill his scores with allusions, and certainly goes at it here. Music Review: Premiere of Wolfgang Rihm?s ?Dionysos? at Salzburg 2010-08-01T22:45:00Z At worst, the sporadic leaping from allusion to allusion is distracting and pedantic, as in the story “Waiting,” where in one paragraph the narrator discusses Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Wharton, Anderson, Joyce, Porter, Faulkner and Beckett. ‘Paper Lantern’ and ‘Ecstatic Cahoots,’ by Stuart Dybek Age of Assassins, fortified with allusions to film and literature, is an unusual work of social history. Age of Assassins: A History of Conspiracy and Political Violence by Michael Newton – review 2012-11-18T00:05:09Z I haven't seen it yet except in photographs, but the subtle allusions already resonate. Richard Wright's stellar art shines next to Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum 2013-03-14T13:19:05Z From the first page it tumbles forth in a heady, headlong rush, the rhythmic sentences crammed with sharp observations, obscure allusions and deliciously unique language. Searching and slouching 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Is that snark or a sideways allusion to the women’s own chemistry? Review: Getting Intimate at ‘Dr. Ride’s American Beach House’ 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The allusion to Bach forms one of the starting points for English Touring Opera's new production: director James Conway prefaces the opera with Bach's cantata Christ Lag in Todesbanden, with its comparable emphasis on mortality. The Emperor of Atlantis – review 2012-10-09T16:49:30Z Both the allusion and the explanation are unusually explicit for a spokesman who is typically careful not to offend. Robert Battle on Running Ailey: ‘This Is My Choreography Now’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z While “Champions” specializes in of-the-moment allusions, part of why it gels so quickly is that its character mix is borrowed from the sitcom bible: “Cheers.” Review: Mindy Kaling’s ‘Champions’ Is Off to a Winning Start 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Even the title is an ironic allusion to the inertial power of the mundane—leftovers, tonight’s dinner as tomorrow’s lunch. The Leftovers: Tom Perrotta's Rapture 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z The show was never explicitly capital-P political — meaning, there were few allusions to Bush or Obama, the eras during which it was produced, or current events. “Tim & Eric” in the age of Trump: Trashing neoliberalism never felt so good 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Where her work contains allusions to the human form, Austen’s depicts the body more directly, although such imagery is submerged into the overall composition, and in only some pictures. In the galleries: Artists illustrate the evolving principles of geometric painting 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The 38 year-old from Moscow, ID, has made a name for himself as an astute songwriter, peppering his lyrics with all manner of allusions. Josh Ritter preaches his “messianic oracular honky tonk”: “I don’t feel a huge connection to religion, except as a large accumulation of confusing, confusing stories” 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Whether spectators see a sly political allusion or simply an icon of good-natured irreverence, the one-fingered hand would be a grand, brazen, unforgettable gesture. A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z There’s no mention of President Trump, but an imagined movie pitch about a superhero who fights Mexicans might be an allusion. In Netflix Specials, Dave Chappelle Challenges His Audience 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Despite allusions to thought in the costumes, spoken text and eureka gestures, it isn’t very thoughtful, yet these dancers look good in it, going for broke, especially the sleek missile of Ashley Murphy. Review: Dance Theater of Harlem’s Return Has Warm Reception 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z On one side are allusions to dead babies. How 19th-century literature spread the archetype of the "evil abortionist" 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z Ellis claims it’s an homage to his literary heroine Joan Didion’s “The White Album,” an allusion that will be lost on almost everyone. Bret Easton Ellis, the political outrage machine who has never voted for president 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Beneath the aphoristic, agitprop terseness of many of the songs lurk multiple allusions to the great lieder composers of the 19th century. Maltman/Drake – review 2013-06-02T16:00:02Z Around the fire, stories turned starkly philosophical, full of allusions to the ancestors and the spirit world. Two Stories Harmonize in Lisa Halliday’s Deft Debut Novel 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z There are no peacock displays of pointless erudition in her work; no recondite allusions are dragged in. ‘Nine Pints’ Is a Brisk Biography of Blood 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The narrator of his new novel, “The One-Eyed Man,” has been reduced to a single letter: K., and that Kafkaesque allusion is just the beginning. In ‘The One-Eyed Man,’ Ron Currie has created a character for our times 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Despondent, he abandons his master’s thesis and takes a job as a companion to an elderly intellectual named Wald, who “larded his speech with quotations and allusions, witticisms and plays on words.” In the novel ‘Judas,’ Amos Oz wrestles with Jewish attitudes toward Jesus 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, what he’s telling his "baby" is far from affectionate, even if it’s couched in allusions to Dionne Warwick hits. The Playlist: The War on Drugs and Lana Del Rey Deliver Two Kinds of Reveries 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Composers like Leonard Bernstein and Michael Tippett used the instrument chiefly for its vernacular allusions. Scott Johnson, Kyle Bobby Dunn and Dither Go Electric 2010-06-18T15:23:00Z The letters, variously tender and brutal, are subtly interlinked through shared imagery and allusions. The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin – review 2013-03-13T15:49:39Z Had the publishers wanted to keep the Proust allusion they might have chosen something along the order of “In Search of Lost Meals.” Iconic Food Writers Toppled Off Their Pedestals 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Ben Jonson's vaunting 1616 collection of his works directs the reader's attention towards classical allusion rather than roistering theatricality; Shaw's dialogue famously has to wriggle past screeds of argumentative stage direction. Are plays proper literature? 2010-05-27T14:13:00Z A distinctly spiritual dimension marks the union of material naturalism and figurative allusion. The 'Maverick Modernist' you don't know but should: Peter Krasnow at the Laguna Art Museum 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Soldiers are as likely to intrude as garden gnomes, ghosts are given equal status with art-historical allusions. Art We Saw This Winter 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Frequently, that connection is structured through allusions to literary models that Nava signals in his titles: a Cummings poem, in “Howtown”; Auden, in “The Hidden Law”; Homer’s Odyssey, in “Rag and Bone.” A Gay Mystery Novelist Who Chronicles the Aftermath of AIDS 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z The protagonist’s past isn’t whitewashed in the Wild Bunch cut, but Ferrara’s blunt depiction is finessed into an allusion. Starring Depardieu as D.S.K. 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z They included allusions to Cristóbal Balenciaga’s work in “angel wing” shapes. Paris Fashion Week: Creating the World of Tomorrow? 2010-03-05T01:10:00Z Even highly technical commercial dances sometimes include movement sampling and remixing, like Knight’s own allusions to the work of Bob Fosse in his choreography for Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies.” A Labor Movement for the Artists Who Make Popular Culture Move 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z That you'll fill afternoons reading reviews aloud with your out-of-town visitors, giddied by Gold's signature second-person and gusts of autobiography and hyperdelic allusions and descriptors as much, if not more, than the prospect of dinner. When nobody else could, Jonathan Gold helped me understand & then love LA, one restaurant at a time 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z For instance, for her 1976 documentary “Daguerréotypes,” an allusion to the Paris street where she lived, she powered her equipment with an electric cord plugged into her home, limiting her range to its length. The Many Ways of Seeing Agnès Varda 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z So it seems there’s a reference to narco-culture along with the other allusions. Art in Review: Eamon Ore-Giron: ‘Smuggling the Sun’ 2013-06-27T20:05:41Z Its music is studded with sonic and structural allusions, though it doesn’t linger on any particular style or era. Cage the Elephant Returns, Suspended Between Rowdiness and Regret 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Today the sport is popular in all three, but the piece begins with allusions to its introduction by Westerners into the two Asian countries. Review: In ‘God Bless Baseball,’ Japan, Korea and America’s Pastime 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Is this a joke or a visual allusion that has slightly misfired? Bartholomeus Spranger’s wild, weird and voluptuous art at the Met That's an allusion, of course, to Paramount and its penny-pinching ways. Studios vie for distribution of next James Bond film 2011-01-13T21:58:54Z Glittered with allusions to Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad and Jules Verne, Chloe’s journey is a compendium of every possible disaster, leavened with a Gilbert & Sullivan sensitivity. James Morrow’s satiric novel ‘Galápagos Regained’ takes on Darwin and God 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z But even the sketch's more contemporary allusions, like the candidates not shaking hands or Trump calling things "yuge," felt slightly stale. 'Vote or Die Laughing': Culture Clash fires off the jokes as fast as Hillary and Donald trade insults 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z And though Staples’s allusions are occasionally highbrow, he also raps, “I ain’t wish for nothing but hood rich / You ain’t seen how grimy my hood get.” “Atlanta” and Vince Staples and a New Hip-Hop Sensibility 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z “The Revisionaries” opens in a derelict inner-city neighborhood known as Loony Island, an allusion to the psychiatric ward in the center of town. Review | A.R. Moxon’s ‘The Revisionaries’ might be the weirdest novel of the year 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The purpose to which they are put, like the names and allusions scattered throughout Horn’s work, don’t seem to matter much, at least not to the writer or the artist. Review | Roni Horn: Cool, collected and completely hermetic 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z But inside, allusions to a grand past remained: skeletons of timber staircases, bits of terra-cotta tile, indigo patches of lime wash on walls rising 25 feet. Next Stop: A Malaysian City Rekindles Its Colorful Past 2010-12-02T18:05:00Z It does contain some pointed allusions — protesters chanting about a wall, reference to the last leader to use the nuclear arsenal: “Truma-n, or was it Roosevelt?” A new opera about a dictator may or may not be about Trump. It depends whom you ask. 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z The spareness of his verse steers the reader toward this kind of simplified perception, but it’s in the nature of language to form a network of allusions and associations that crowd out immediate impressions. The American Side of France’s Greatest Postwar Poet 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Although aligned, superficially, with a modernist embrace of natural materials and essential, organic forms, they burst with ideas and allusions. Review | After death, major works by artist Jack Whitten discovered 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z The allusions are to Greece and Homer, as well as to the Alexandrian poet C.P. Review | Peter Sacks is one of the most compelling artists in America. But he didn’t find his voice until late in life. 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z In fact, Gaddafi himself likes to load his prose with allusions to the Qu'ran, even though he has frequently been quite "liberal" in his interpretation of Islam. Dictator-lit: Gaddafi's surreal gibberish 2010-03-24T12:46:00Z We didn’t come up with these allusions of Superman being Christ-like. Man of Steel: Superman… or Human God? 2013-06-12T15:35:35Z Rippling below these allusions is the question: Can artists still be social critics, tricksters and renegades when they’re accepting corporate money? What to See in New York Art Galleries Right Now 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z The new record takes the Shakespearean allusions even further, given its dramatic Elizabethan title. “It’s OK to always be a loser”: Patrick Stickles reveals the secrets of Titus Andronicus 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z 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. Review: New Music Inspired by Christ’s Agony and Dating Apps 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z But it also refers, both by allusion and by way of the “Portnoy’s Complaint” typeface used in the title sequence, to Philip Roth, the obvious model for the aging literary lion played by Jonathan Pryce. “Listen Up Philip”: Jason Schwartzman and Elisabeth Moss star in a brilliant, bristly Philip Roth knock-off 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The design mixes vernacular allusions to the old bungalow court and to Cliff May’s classic ranch houses. Los Angeles Has a Housing Crisis. Can Design Help? 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z The mind skittered along these allusions linking skin, blackness, modernism, death, and the empowerment of a constructed persona. Her Art Comes Without Trigger Warnings 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z If you do not recognize the allusion, you may now be wondering if the world was crying out for a Broadway musical about the pioneering girl group the Shirelles. | 'Baby It?s You!': Girl Group Tale Is Reharmonized 2011-04-28T02:30:28Z There’s this bar in the movie called Eve’s — an allusion to the Garden of Eden perhaps — that Lucky has been cast out of, for the “sin” of smoking. ‘Lucky’ director John Carroll Lynch on life, death — and Harry Dean Stanton 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Fulljames undercuts Rossini's royalism by referencing the suppression of the 1745 Rebellion; a fair point, though it only adds, I'm afraid, to the growing confusion of periods and allusions. La Donna del Lago, Royal Opera House – review 2013-05-20T10:14:00Z Other parts, such as allusions to Hurricane Sandy, felt bolted on and contrived. Landfall - review 2013-03-03T02:23:23Z Oliver then cut to a Fox & Friends segment, in which the hosts question Bolton’s allusion to the Libya model given the images of Gaddafi being dragged through the streets by rebel forces. John Oliver: Kim is only person excited to get a picture taken with Mike Pompeo 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z With his frequent allusions to clocks and hour glasses filled with gunpowder, Wayne is preoccupied with mortality and how a mega-star makes the most of the time he has left. Album review: Lil Wayne, 'Tha Carter IV' 2011-08-29T20:26:00Z This allusion to the magic of music was not haphazard. Henri Dutilleux obituary 2013-05-22T17:43:25Z For props, there are pillows and folding chairs — an allusion, perhaps, to the chair in “A House Is Not a Home,” though it isn’t in the show. Yes, Burt Bacharach Wrote That. And You Can Dance to It. 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z But the booty allusions, thankfully, steal less screen-time than images of the rapper asserting her influence in other ways. Nicki Minaj Rules the World in Promo for MTV European Music Awards 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The biblical allusion to the story of Moses is plain to see, only in this context the untethered basket is a visual metaphor for a people . . . but also, for escape. "Black Is King" continues Beyonce's immortalizing of the Black American experience through art 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z 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. Chipping Away at the Huge Block of Netflix Originals 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z “What do you think people call me?” he laughs, then suggests “CB4”, an allusion to the influential 1990s hip-hop comedy starring Chris Rock. Black Panther's Chadwick Boseman: 'Everybody’s minds are opening up' 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Texture is an active element, and allusions to elastic skin and gridded weaves abound. Toshio Shibata's glorious photos find mystery where man meets land 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z It is the magnificence of so much of that music, with its web of allusions, direct and indirect, to so much of Vaughan Williams' output, that is the saving grace here. The Pilgrim's Progress – review 2012-11-06T17:51:52Z The galactic backdrop was a clever allusion to the leaps and bounds he’s made with fabric technology and new cuts for the historic Italian fabric and tailoring house. | The Top Five Fall/Winter 2014 Men’s Wear Shows in Milan 2014-01-15T20:29:19Z Instead of the visual references to hunting lodges in the first part, there’s an aural allusion: selections from the soundtrack to Mr. Lynch’s indelibly weird and hilarious TV series, “Twin Peaks.” Dance Review: Yvonne Meier’s ‘This Is Not a Pink Pony,’ at the Abrons Arts Center 2013-06-02T21:24:55Z The song's lyrics feature "allusions to the transatlantic slave trade, the Jim Crow system, as well as the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation," per Insider. "Do football, not wokeness": Conservatives angered over Black national anthem sung at the Super Bowl 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z It’s so clumsily told — such a mishmash of allusions, filched plot points and hurried developments — that it’s never even convincing as a perverse buddy movie/on-the-road tale. Denis Johnson’s New Novel, ‘The Laughing Monsters’ 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Rushdie’s style once unfurled with hypnotic elegance, but here it’s become a fire hose of brainy gags and literary allusions — tremendously clever but frequently tedious. Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’ is a shambling ‘Don Quixote’ for our deceptive era - The Washington Post 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z The Mirror, in an allusion to the fact that news of the baby's birth first broke online, spoke of: "The Twitter of Tiny Feet." William and Kate thank hospital for baby care 2013-07-23T12:33:12Z A reader who loved Moore's linguistic inventiveness – "all your puns and similes and allusions" – seized on this example and said: "I wondered whether anyone has ever compared you to Gertrude Stein." Guardian book club: The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore 2010-04-23T23:07:00Z Each story, moreover, contains sly intertextual allusions to characters and elements from the others. Review | Oh, the places you’ll want to go! Two new books offer the most magical of escapes 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z His music is just as dense, a thicket of instruments and stylistic allusions, in long songs — nine of them on this 58-minute album — that might veer off on tangents at any moment. New Music: Air, Of Montreal and the Jim Black Trio 2012-02-13T23:57:44Z The design wraps the building’s facade in a six-story promenade — an allusion to the Mediterranean balcony — turning the museum’s walls into indoor-outdoor spaces for art. Lebanese-born Architect Chosen for Beirut Museum of Art 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Boesman’s score is an exuberant, slippery mix of styles, full of onomatopoeic effects and witty allusions. Review: ‘Pinocchio,’ the Opera, Is a Hit For a Renovated Theater 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The Debussy, opening with the exhilarating rush of a river of Champagne, and continuing through a whole range of moods and allusions, was the highlight of the night. Review | A Grand Slam match of crack pianists 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z If there’s going to be a movie about nobodies like Chip and Dale, it only seems right that it should include such wide-ranging animated allusions as “South Park,” “Rugrats” and “The Polar Express.” ‘Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers’ Review: Remember Them? (No?) 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z But there are allusions to empty and plundered homes, to businesses driven out and Orthodox churches abandoned. Aminatta Forna: a life in writing 2013-05-03T17:00:02Z The only allusion to it is when Lex Luthor proclaims to Superman that the monster is “your doomsday” with a lowercase “d.” Explaining That Monster at the End of 'Batman v Superman' 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z That takes guts, if you’ll pardon the allusion to a part of the body that for these women may never be the right size. Review: ‘Stuffed’ Details Fights Women Wage With Their Weight 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z When a director dubs himself Megaton, whatever the esoteric allusion and even if he's French, you don't expect subtlety. Review: 'Colombiana', a scandalous blend of action, sex and violence 2011-08-25T22:04:04Z What set the show apart this year — from both its previous seasons and most of its peers — is the use of the space, place, framing, allusion and mood to house that narcissism. You Don’t Like the Girls in ‘Girls’? That’s Its Genius. 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z There are unison male/female vocals and allusions to nature and fairytales in the lyrics about forests of talking trees, although before things get too twee there are references to "killing machines". New band of the day – No 1,278: Of Monsters and Men 2012-05-29T16:42:57Z Her allusions might be unclear, but the work is presented with such finesse it's always convincing. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z Dylan’s new songs are, for better and worse, a blizzard of allusions: song titles and musicians, historical figures and movie characters, authors and hints of quotations. Bob Dylan Still Bristles on ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z There are several allusions to Shakespeare’s “Tempest” in these pages — the possibilities of a “sea change,” and Prospero’s sorcerer abilities to enchant. Review: ‘Night Sky With Exit Wounds,’ Verses From Ocean Vuong 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z The world was fixated on her allusions to her private life. Jodie Foster Is Still Afraid of Failure 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z The writer peppers the story with allusions to Greek myth and historical events plus contemporary brand names — Corn Flakes, Leatherman, Doc Martens — to recreate the mashup that exists in the modern mind. 'The Red House': Looking for the heart of family in a narcissistic age 2012-07-03T21:01:09Z I agree with Sisson and Gay that the frequent allusions to Dylan Farrow’s adoption are problematic if they are being made in an attempt to mitigate the backlash against Allen. Why Dylan Farrow’s adoption matters 2014-02-11T12:45:00Z Given the gruesome parade of victims smashing their heads through posts or stabbing themselves with scissors, it’s an easy detail to overlook; the occasional allusion to pleasure is almost charmingly forgettable. Jessica Jones: shattering exploration of rape, addiction and control 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Monumental and full of allusions to the distress experienced by Europeans, the picture was bought Tuesday night by a European collector, not otherwise identified. Auctions: Bidders at Christie's Open Pocketbooks, but With a Clear Eye 2011-11-02T12:30:11Z The show’s dialogue is also rife with American idioms, and allusions to U.S. regionalism abound, as in one episode featuring a tribe of swamp-based water-benders who sound like they’ve been transplanted from the Deep South. ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Imagines a World Free of Whiteness 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z It's a pleasant, light morality tale, full of potential to prompt children to ask questions about growing up, and surely all the whimsical, unexplained elements are allegories or allusions. Comics: 'Return of the Dapper Men,' 'Legends of the Mouse Guard' 2011-01-05T19:43:57Z “Once I realized that Beyoncé was reaching back a bit, musically and artistically, with her sound and her allusions, then the rollout began to make sense to me,” Smith said. Is Beyoncé’s Latest Album Rollout (Gasp!) Conventional? 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Sophisticated allusions to specific selections from “Messiah” are made. Into The Music: Michael Tippett?s ?Child of Our Time? Fits With Winter 2012-01-29T04:39:18Z Another, by Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino, depicts a woman with scissors poised to snip off her tongue and nose in an allusion to the violence Brazil suffered during its long dictatorship. Hammer Museum gala brings out the stars, and an Ava DuVernay speech about men 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Geometric cutouts perforate the restaurant’s facade, an allusion to Dogon architecture in Mali, repeated indoors and on the ceiling over a semi-enclosed back garden. At Serengeti Kitchen, Touches of Memoir Dot the Menu 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z There’s no doubt that same-sex encounters and relationships occurred on plantations — there are allusions in at least a few slave narratives. Review: ‘Sugar in Our Wounds’ May Make You Cry About the Past, and the Present 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z But other diarists edit their supposedly spontaneous texts, excising undesirable allusions, cultivating a desired image. Exhibition Review: Diarists Share Tales ? True or Not ? of Lives Richly Lived 2011-01-21T19:10:36Z McBride moderated the roundtable discussion, which touched on the maternal bond and authentic attachment, Christian allusions and even the role of scent in the novel, but returned again and again to Huxley’s striking prescience. Reading 'Brave New World' in Aldous Huxley's former home 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The allusion to Duncan’s immobility is obvious, but, despite such catastrophic injuries, he is still living. ‘Still Life With Monkey’: A Mischievous, Gluttonous Primate 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z But that emotional outburst is a brief exception to a rule that “Spotlight” obeys faithfully, constantly undercutting cheap sentiment and obviousness in favor of understatement, allusion and oblique suggestion. The best film won: 5 ways ‘Spotlight’ beat the Oscars odds 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z This novel’s vague allusions to climate change becomes, sneakily, a very sharp message. A Virus Upends the World in a Sweeping New Novel 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z “Imagining this inner transformation,” Greenblatt says, with a wry allusion to the final redemptive scene of “The Winter’s Tale,” “is almost as difficult as imagining a statue coming to life.” What Would Shakespeare Have Made of Donald Trump? 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z In addition to these elegiac poems, and some candid and moving lyrics, Porter's work from the 1970s became more meditative, packed with allusions to myth, philosophy, art and music. Peter Porter obituary 2010-04-23T16:54:00Z Hofmann portrays this pervasive sense of syncope through rhythmic prose and powerful allusions to faith in an amoral world. Tear Down That Will: An East German Guide to Breaking the Spirit 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z The designer said the title was an obvious allusion to Burberry as a rainwear company. Fiscal Crisis Seems Far Away at Milan’s Men’s Wear Shows 2012-06-24T18:23:58Z These days, to what extent will American audiences react to allusions to Montaigne, Kant, Stendhal and Benjamin Constant, whose novel “Adolphe” inspires the prank? Movie Review: ‘What’s in a Name?,’ a Farce About a Fractious Evening 2013-12-12T23:26:35Z It flew through thousands of lines of verse like a drone over a wildlife habitat, snapping pictures of similes, allusions, and metatheses. Hacking the Humanities 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z The result, according to Blumenthal: “a river of logic, history, metaphor, allusion, storytelling, and emotion that flowed until he finally ended Douglas’s ambition.” Abraham Lincoln's early life is recast by Sidney Blumenthal in the masterful 'Wrestling With His Angel' 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Among his extraordinary abilities is his power to break glass with his high-pitched voice, an allusion to Kristallnacht — the “night of broken glass” in 1938 — when Nazi thugs destroyed Jewish-owned homes and businesses. Günter Grass, German author and Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z And although she also spoke of God and forgiveness, DuBose’s mother made similar allusions to war, after she thanked the protesters demanding justice for her child: “I’m ready to join the battlefield.” No mourning, no peace: Sam DuBose, Sandra Bland and why Black lives don’t matter (yet) 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Now I shall lob my own cultural allusion on to the cerebral pile and say: Holy bejeezus, it's all gone a bit Anchorman, hasn't it? | Hadley Freeman 2010-05-12T08:00:00Z And for all Karp’s high-minded allusions to appreciating “the ideological spectrum,” for many decades those judgments were based on what White men considered important, valid and entertaining. Perspective | The Philip Roth biography is canceled, Mike Pence’s book could be next — and publishing may never be the same 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z There are psychedelic elements and conscious allusions to painters like Georgia O’Keeffe and Arthur Dove. Loie Hollowell’s Abstract Body Landscapes 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z The visual allusion is as painful a suggestion as it is an astounding idea. “Timbuktu” and “Girlhood” 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z When she’s ranting, riffing and soliloquizing, a torrent of metaphor, allusion and alliteration spills from her mouth. ‘Her Smell’ Review: The Road to Rock ’n’ Roll Transcendence Goes Through the Gutter 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z These allusions to history — personal and balletic — permeate the 13 fragmented sections of “Rearray.” Dance Review: Collaborations Bring Cascades of Motion and Emotion 2011-07-07T22:06:58Z But there are allusions to Molière and Goethe. A Master Storyteller From 19th-Century Brazil, Heir to the Greats and Entirely Sui Generis 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z This sweeping debut novel, full of literary allusions, follows a Cuban family’s journey to America and back. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z While the larks still sing, the impression is that their habitat has shrunk, and the second section extends the environmental concerns, with perhaps an allusion to the "Celtic tiger" season of careless prosperity. Poem of the week: The Seasons by Derek Mahon 2011-03-07T11:09:38Z At times, the Asian allusions — mainly jewelry, rich patches of embroidery and the models’ red mouths — were so cautiously offered as to seem self-conscious. New York Fashion Week: Fashion Review: Tech Pushes Tradition Into the 21st Century 2011-02-18T02:01:11Z That Mr. Stickles would write a tragicomic opera about his home state, especially one with loose allusions to the Civil War, wasn’t always obvious. Music: Two Bands Nurtured in a Garden State of Mind 2010-03-13T00:05:00Z Dense, challenging, aphoristic and swarming with recondite allusions and puns, these novels display an authoritative grasp of a breathtaking range of subjects. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z “The situation and the prestige of writers is somewhat different here, and I like it that way,” he said, in an allusion to the European expectations of politically committed intellectuals. Books: Rare Unfurling of the Reluctant Philip Roth 2011-09-15T11:30:11Z There’s a mild but inescapable allusion to classical statuary, too, and in the surface’s similarity to bone, an invocation of gleefully Surrealist grave robbing. For David Smith, Sculptor and Painter, a Happy Equilibrium in White 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z The allusions to advancing frailty were not subtle, perhaps, but reality rarely is. Dance: Doug Varone’s Final Performance 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z A column that ran this year in “El País” included concerns that she had “pulled a ‘Miley Cyrus,’” going from lyrical Lorca allusions to simplistic, dirty rhymes and oversharing on social media. Rosalía Reserves the Right to Transform 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z They maintain certain signature Tunga forms, including the steel tripods and allusions to caldrons and alchemy. Tunga: ‘From “La Voie Humide” ’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z When she was 18, a rival of her father had already made a not-very-veiled allusion to her plucked chastity: “It is a fine thing to distribute the flowers after having yielded the fruit.” She Quickened the Pulse of 17th-Century Music 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z “Oasis” of 1964-65 is still a vision with the merest allusions to reality. Contemporary Art Works of Often Subtle Beauty 2010-10-08T15:11:00Z There were allusions in the program to his struggles, but the larger point was his endless enthusiasm for performing. A Concert Tribute for the Guitarist Jeff Golub 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The retrospective has several modest-size sculptures that tend to be fairly literal in their political allusions. Art Review: Tracking Racial Identity, But Not Defined by It 2010-12-23T22:15:18Z It’s not hard to guess why: the setting amid the seedy underbelly of the Los Angeles suburbs; the screenplay filled with sly cinematic allusions; the hotshot young auteur, directing his second feature. The Best Movies and Shows on Hulu Right Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z She fills the novel with epigrams, allusions and footnotes from actual texts and literature, ranging from "The Wealth of Nations" and "The Wretched of the Earth" to Wordsworth and nursery rhymes. Salon's favorite books of 2022 — fiction and nonfiction 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z “Shall” pops up in his speech, as do unexpected, unusual words and allusions. Arts & Leisure: Alexander Payne?s New Film, ?The Descendants? 2011-11-09T13:00:06Z Omar Khayyam also gets into the mix, as do allusions to Hemingway and Fitzgerald. DVDs: Mythic Mash-Up in Feverish Color 2010-08-29T02:23:00Z This could be read as an allusion to death, but there also is a sense that Rux, too, is somehow outside of himself, as if he has given up his hands to the collective. In images and words of rebirth, a poignant tribute to civil rights giants John Lewis and C.T. Vivian 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z My reaction when I hear that song is: you’re winking at “After the Dance” — making a cheeky allusion to it. Robin Thicke on ‘Blurred Lines’ and Learning From His Mistakes 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Free from the rules that govern One Direction’s sanitized world, Malik can sing about adult behavior—there are plenty of F-bombs and allusions to sex and drinking—but there’s no rebellious energy to motivate it. Zayn Malik Would Like You to Know That He Is a Cool Adult Now 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z The Hamlet allusion has hinted at something rotten in the state of England. Poem of the week: Otterspool Prom by Peter Robinson 2013-02-18T11:19:21Z This time, Min’s contributions include tranquil, radiant landscape paintings, rich with historical allusions. How Do You Stage a Global Art Show Now? In South Korea, Curators Press On. 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Hayley, by her own admission, had crammed allusions to the failed relationship into the lyrics of Brand New Eyes, but the band, eager to keep working, had kept their heads down and ploughed on. Paramore: no more Misery Business 2013-01-26T06:00:00Z In Evelyn, who talks about pregnancy and at one point sheds tears of blood, I found allusions to the phenomenon of bleeding Virgin Mary statues and the higher pregnancy mortality rates for Black women. ‘On Sugarland’ Review: A Nameless War, and Too Many Wounds to Count 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Yeah, there are allusions to the past – like a lot of great writers, he had brilliant insights but he didn’t necessarily apply them to his own life. The Jayhawks return with “Paging Mr. Proust”: “They’re gonna call me a pompous ass, it’s gonna be fantastic!” 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z He celebrates the film for being “cerebral, formally and conceptually complicated, dense with literary allusions and as unabashedly romantic as any movie you’ll ever see.” ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' 2011-02-15T15:44:46Z Literary allusions are not enough to make a work literary. English teacher: I was wrong about “Hunger Games” 2012-07-19T18:30:00Z Those sorts of readers find a thicket of playful allusions to classic and contemporary science fiction and fantasy stories. Squid?s Meaty Role in China Mi?ville?s ?Kraken? 2010-07-23T22:21:00Z As well as allusions – Hector comes from Ilion, New York – there are attempts at epic diction. The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z He suggested he should maybe give up singing for rapping, or maybe make an illicit sex tape to get noticed, an unkind allusion to R. Kelly’s legal troubles. Music Review: Suffering of a Noble, Romantic Soul Man 2010-12-16T06:30:05Z The more affecting allusion to death came when Perry thanked fans for showing up when she needed them. Katy Perry shows all sides of her 'Prism' at Honda Center 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z The many scattered allusions to dance and music in the poem, surely the inspiration for the project, allow Tanowitz to treat the text tangentially, trusting in both set and serendipitous links. A Dance to the Music of Time and T.S. Eliot 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Instead, he turned the occasion into an inventive intellectual exercise, full of allusions and references that would mostly escape the casual listener. Music Review: Summery Sounds of a New Hall in Rockport, Mass. 2010-06-11T22:45:00Z "I disapprove the habit of a doggy-bag and take-away of leftovers: they are habits of disrespect to the restaurant, and allusion to hunger and poverty." Uighur Specialties, With Lamb Front and Center, at Kebab Empire 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z 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. Review: New York Philharmonic Presents a World Premiere 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z He was renowned for being an early aficionado of the iPod and he loved tossing sci-fi allusions into a collection. Perspective | Karl Lagerfeld didn’t have a signature design — but he invented a new kind of designer 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z No doubt there is ambition in her allusions to Shakespeare and mythical characters Icarus and Prometheus. New band of the day ? No 958: Sound of Rum 2011-02-01T17:00:43Z Nathalie is a philosophy professor, and the script bristles with casual allusions to famous and obscure philosophers. Review: Isabelle Huppert Is Great in ‘Things to Come.’ Discuss. 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z As they approach climax, the woman reaches for a nearby ice pick, stabbing the man repeatedly and graphically, with blood spattering across their bodies and bed, a none-too-subtle orgasmic allusion. ‘Basic Instinct’ at 30: A Time Capsule That Can Still Offend 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z Its single installation, Indigenous Parts, is a maze of plinths on which witty oddball combos of objects make allusions to figures as far-flung as Johnny Depp and Fats Domino, sparking dizzying associations of ideas. Exhibition picks of the week 2010-04-23T23:12:00Z We read them so assiduously and delightedly that we burned entire paragraphs into memory, and could each cause the other to collapse in laughter with an allusion. Iain Banks: 'A star whose light will travel a long way' 2013-06-10T16:56:34Z The movie is lightly ornamented with cinematic allusions. Movie Review: Johnny Depp Stars in Tim Burton?s ?Dark Shadows? 2012-05-10T12:00:01Z The composition is full of symbolical allusions to the distressed condition of Europe. Auctions: Uptown From Wall Street, a Bull Market 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z Still, the specific episode allusions are sure to amuse New York’s resident Gleeks, however conflicted or closeted they may be. ArtsBeat Blog: New York Fringe Festival Report: 'Gleeam' 2011-08-18T19:49:44Z There is an intricate multichannel electronic soundscape, with some spoken text in English and French, allusions to Tom and his breadcrumbs and the ogre, but just allusions, nothing concrete. Why a fashionable young audience flocked to hear an obscure Greek composer's soundscape 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z In place of Latin liturgy, Brahms set passages from the Lutheran Bible, fashioning a personal order of mourning and hope as well as a conscious allusion to German forebears like Schütz and Bach. Music Review: Brahms for the Schumanns 2010-10-14T20:55:00Z At times Ms. Takaezu exhibited the moon pots in hammocks, an allusion to her method of drying the pots in nets. Toshiko Takaezu, Ceramic Artist, Dies at 88 2011-03-20T01:44:46Z Well, frankly, I could die happy, because that is the ultimate accolade – it's not just some cryptic allusion to me that only my mum would get. How it feels to be dissed on record 2010-04-30T11:24:00Z In fact, she said, there was no shortage of available historical allusions: “Throw a dart at the map anywhere in the U.S. and you’re going to hit a can of worms.” 3 Artists Are Urged to Go Big. They Didn’t Hold Back. 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z 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. Dear Match Book: Forbidden Love 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z The name of the tour is an allusion to Hart's career: "What Now?" Kevin Hart: Why not have me host the Oscars? 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Like the Picasso allusion, the Shakespearean nod feels like a name-drop without a purpose. A Widow Takes Her Grown Kids on a Cruise. What Could Go Wrong? 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Throughout this elegant show the allusions kept flying. Critic’s Notebook: Emeli Sandé’s ‘Our Version of Events’ 2012-06-06T22:42:46Z And while the red annotations in her log book might indicate violent outcomes, the allusion is too vague to register. ‘Promising Young Woman’ Review: Courting Dangerous Liaisons 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z The theme of theater continues with multiple allusions to William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” — a drama that America’s 16th president could recite from memory, his widow remembers. ‘The Widow Lincoln’ at Ford’s Theatre shows a first lady in mourning 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The show even displays publications arguing for his authorship using arcane analyses of secret allusions to his name in the King James text. Exhibition Review: ?Manifold Greatness? and King James Bible at Folger - Review 2011-09-29T22:15:20Z The Supremes hit “I Hear a Symphony,” in particular, was embellished with classical allusions. Music Review: LaChanze at 54 Below 2013-04-18T21:44:31Z At a group-therapy session, the performers introduce themselves as Paris Opera Ballet dancers, and there are allusions to the company’s hierarchy, and a foray into the ornate foyer de la danse behind the stage. Love and Death in Paris, With an Assist From Star-Crossed Verona 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z There is a beguiling mystery to those brief scenes, allusions to life and love outside the bounds of the infernal prison. Review: A Lack of Passion Keeps This ‘Orpheus Descending’ Earthbound 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z And there are lines that can clearly be heard as allusions to our contemporary challenges. ‘Camelot,’ Beloved but Befuddling, Gets the Aaron Sorkin Treatment 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Christle is drawn to associations and allusions, preferring to bounce between observations rather than confine herself to a fixed position. ‘The Crying Book’ Follows the Many Tracks of Our Tears 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z The title is a pointed allusion to Gershwin — the song closes with the lyric “I love ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ too — It’s just that he was rich when he wrote it. Beyond ‘Rent’: 4 Glimpses of the Unheard Jonathan Larson 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z It’s as if Mr. White made a list of parameters from the White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army”: An allusion to Native American lore, a big beat, a huge riff and something a crowd can shout. The Playlist: Harry Styles and Beth Ditto Take the Plunge and Go Solo 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z From 1949, when his early figurative pictures finally liquefied into stains of translucent color, Rothko painted with no allusions, no particulars. Mark Rothko at Full Scale, and in Half Light 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z The Arabian jasmine recalls the garden plants of Obama’s native Hawaii; the chrysanthemum is the official flower of Chicago; and the African lily, or agapanthus, an allusion to his Kenyan forebears. Inspired by the Obama portrait’s ‘living wall’? Not so fast. 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Each gallery of this brilliantly installed effort is an exhibition unto itself, full of subtle links, allusions and contrasts that tie the works together or hold them apart. Review: Picasso, Completely Himself in 3 Dimensions 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z His allusion was both to the politically conservative nature of the region, where France’s far-right Front National has long garnered significant voting numbers, and to the budgetary constraints that have cramped arts financing worldwide. New Steps Ahead in the South of France 2011-12-11T05:00:17Z Hardly a thumb-sucking political analysis goes by without allusion to one of the 37 canonical plays, however limited or far-fetched the comparison may be. It’s Time to Turn the Page on the Trump-Shakespeare Comparisons 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z 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. The Utopian Quest to Link the United States and Latin America 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z In one town, fine Southern men convene to solve “the colored question,” a harrowing allusion to the 20th century’s central atrocity. Oprah’s book club pick: ‘The Underground Railroad,’ by Colson Whitehead 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z I had to turn to the program notes to glean that the arms frequently crossed in an X are an allusion to a protest gesture that Rhee is extending to “all oppressed living beings.” Review: The Sea Is Rising, but the Dance Goes On 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z This is a film that announces its theme, but then develops it not in a linear way, but through visual poetry, allusion, and metaphor. Terrence Malick, divine director 2013-04-28T17:00:00Z “Echo’s Bones,” as Mr. Nixon’s annotations make clear, is a magpie’s assortment of references, allusions and quotations, with nods to Dante, Shakespeare, Dickens, Mozart, biographies, folklore, movies, popular songs. ‘Echo’s Bones,’ a Beckett Short Story Rediscovered 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z There are also pieces about police brutality and a pond dotted with miniature boats stuffed full of refugees — an allusion to Europe's current refugee crisis. Banksy's 'Dismaland' theme park installation a singular blend of dystopia and hype 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z The atmosphere of both worlds is lovingly evoked, with endless knowing allusions in both sound and vision. Pilgrim loses control 2010-08-31T08:02:00Z Alt-J, formed at the University of Leeds and now roosting in Cambridge, England, favors an aesthetic of stylish obfuscation and conspiratorial allusion. Music Review: Alt-J, From England, Makes Its Brooklyn Debut at Glasslands 2012-08-08T22:14:11Z In a novel filled with open or oblique cultural references and allusions, readers may also detect some undeclared ones. The House of Rumour by Jake Arnott – review 2012-06-29T07:00:02Z References and allusions stack up and ricochet around in a way that is evocative and even at times poetic. Theater Review: ?Samuel & Alasdair,? From Mad Ones, at New Ohio Theater 2012-02-13T00:54:00Z It's scruffy stuff, with nods and allusions all over it. New band of the day ? No 1,061: Howler 2011-07-13T16:14:36Z Namjoo's multilayered lyrics are full of opaque allusions, a subtle mix of the political and poetic that perhaps prompted the comparison to Dylan. Exiled Iranian singer Mohsen Namjoo makes Northwest debut 2011-02-24T20:40:10Z The Public Lab production of this borderline ludicrous but sometimes, um, delicious play, directed by Michael Sexton, adorns the opening in a little apt classical allusion. | 'Titus Andronicus': ?Titus Andronicus? at Public Lab - Review 2011-12-14T03:01:00Z The visual allusion to Muybridge in the opening moments is unmistakable, and the dancers’ first actions reinforce it as they drop abruptly to the floor, rise, walk, kneel, roll. Dance Review: ?Undance? by Wayne McGregor and Friends in London - Review 2011-12-05T23:11:05Z It would be hard to miss, or discount as irrelevant, the allusion to current cons and crises, in the White House and beyond. Review: When ‘Tartuffe’ Meets Trump, It’s Revolutionary 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Today, Feinstein’s work is known for its unpredictability and ironic allusions to pop culture and art history. Rochelle Feinstein Makes Work That Is Purposefully Hard to Define 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z And a duet between Ms. Davis and the alto-saxophonist Michaël Attias was full of reflective tension and sly allusions to the chord changes of “All the Things You Are.” Music Review: Tony Malaby?s Novela at Jazz Gallery - Review 2011-12-19T22:05:11Z Like Freud, Mr. Grosz is fond of literary allusions, and he’s nimble at excavating the psychological subtext of literary classics. Books of The Times: ‘The Examined Life’ Describes Psychoanalysis’s Power 2013-07-08T20:44:31Z You don’t have to recognize this film’s overt cinematic allusions to be aware of its indebtedness. Film: A Fresh Look Back at Jean-Luc Godard?s ?Breathless? 2010-05-21T17:18:00Z In fact, allusions to the present were the rule in Iranian courts where kings lived in an ever-present visual and auditive Shah-Nameh environment. Art Review: Iran's Mirror of the World 2011-02-25T12:00:05Z There are allusions to the “Iliad,” and echoes of Icarus and Daedalus as Ethiopians take flight from the cliff. Maaza Mengiste Sings a Modern Song of War 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The passing allusion, the spry rearrangement, the trust placed in his sidemen: all par for the course. Music Review: Sachal Vasandani?s Flexible Tradition at Joe?s Pub 2010-06-04T22:06:00Z There was also some discussion of Ms. Palin’s family, and an allusion to having teenage daughters. Media Decoder: Palin and Couric Have Their Morning Showdown. No Blows Landed. 2012-04-03T16:15:41Z Understandably, they clearly put their best man on the job, the better to unpick Harvey's dense mesh of musical influences and literary and historical allusions for the benefit of their immigration-fearing readership. How to write the perfect album review 2011-08-02T18:04:09Z In short order, they are edited and polished, any allusion to the bride hunt eliminated and the result presented as the experiences abroad of an unnamed, and now deceased, German aristocrat. ‘Letters of a Dead Man’: A travel guide like no other 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z This allusion, though, only becomes evident after — and if — you recognize that her precise framing also owes a great debt to Bresson. ‘I Was at Home, but …’ Review: In Grief, What Dreams May Come 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z What’s more, the themes of widespread drug addiction and impending economic disaster are meant to strike a contemporary nerve, while casual allusions to Baker Street and a Mrs. Hudson come with an authorial wink. Review | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar returns to his other passion: Sherlock Holmes 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z But theatergoers not already knowledgeable about the woman once dubbed the Brazilian Bombshell are unlikely to catch the full import of these scenes and other biographical allusions. ‘Gimme a Band’ delves into Carmen Miranda’s all-too-colorful story 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z If we are to revive old plays, which inevitably contain obscure words and allusions, surely it is the job of the actor to make us understand them. Is it OK to rewrite classic plays? 2013-07-02T11:05:04Z But its twee tendencies are redeemed by great virtues: wit, confidence, formal invention and, most of all, a willingness to root its allusions in character and story, and bring everything back to friendship and feeling. "My Community Pulp Fictional Dinner with Andre" 2011-03-25T16:04:00Z Her use of allusions is well represented by one character’s very unusual recitation of Frank O’Hara’s poetry during sex. A Debut Novel With Prose as Lively as Its Heroine’s Mind 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z In some cases, there are sly literary allusions that deliberately transpose gender. When Japan Had a Third Gender 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z The allusions have grown denser, though, and more specifically knotted into art history. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z His first solo studio album in 13 years, “The Tree of Forgiveness” echoes with allusions to death—which might be expected given his health woes—yet it is never maudlin. ‘The Tree of Forgiveness’ Review: John Prine on Life’s Agonies and Absurdities 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z I often say that literature is the original internet — every allusion, footnote and reference is a hyperlink to another text. Maria Popova: By the Book 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The work, in a former classroom on the museum’s third floor, is a chaste, minimal environment, a conscious allusion to the Quaker meeting houses that Mr. Turrell visited as a child. James Turrell’s ‘Meeting,’ at MoMA PS1, Shows Its Age 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z International box office prospects, already dim to begin with, are further hindered by many inside jokes and allusions to Hitler's famous speeches that work in German but probably will not survive dubbing or subtitling. "'Mein Kampf" comedy will struggle at box office 2010-07-21T07:08:00Z “I said to your aunt last night. … Art is seeing things. And your aunt said, that’s a great description of what art is” — and a freight of literary and artistic allusions. Beware of Family Members Bearing Gifts 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z That opening scene is lavish with literary allusions. In Ann Patchett’s New Novel, a Glass House and a Family With Things to Hide 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z The Beckett allusions are insubstantial, but in truth none of this literary game-playing is illuminating, and mostly feels like a lazy attempt to pad the play with audience-flattering in-jokes. | 'Leaving': A New Play by Vaclav Havel Has Its American Premiere 2010-06-08T22:24:00Z Any conversation with this film-maker will range playfully over his past work and its multiple layered allusions, but he seems less keen today to apply that movie-buff approach to Dark Waters. Todd Haynes: 'People who say Trump is bound to win are letting it happen' 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The music unfailingly suits the words with its airy lines, elegant ensembles and sly allusions: a whiff of “La Bohème” each time Lydia dreams of noble destitution, for instance. Opera Review: Bronx Opera Company’s ‘The Rivals’ at the Lovinger Theater 2014-01-13T19:15:13Z Hearst and Hadrian Along with frequent allusions to Roman statesmen, the diaries make much of Getty’s fellow tycoons. Self-Portrait Of the Oilman As Collector 2010-12-26T02:23:54Z 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 Philosopher in Dark Times 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z I admire Adamsdale's restraint: allusions to Jackson's bullying brother, or to the breakdown that ended his corporate career, are kept to a tantalising minimum. Jackson's Way ? review 2011-01-09T21:30:01Z The allusion is obscure even by Scorsese’s standards, but devoted cinephiles have spotted the director’s hat tip to the golf romp “Follow Thru,” released in 1930, roughly when this scene takes place. A Guide to Watching Scorsese Movies Like an Insider 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The allusion to the protests of professional sports players, on the day of the Super Bowl, was a powerful gesture in this place just a few blocks from the White House. Daniel Bernard Roumain’s songs of protest at the National Gallery 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z The preacher sprinkles his calls for affordable health care with biblical allusions, reminding voters that Bartimaeus, a blind man healed by Jesus in the Gospel of Mark, “suffered from a preexisting condition.” Raphael Warnock’s campaign for the moral high ground 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z The painting “Da Rita,” stars Queen Victoria herself, an allusion to the choreographer Frederick Ashton, known for impersonating her. Your Last Chance to See One of New York’s Great Gallery Spaces 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z 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. A Marriage Upended, a Life Destroyed 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Others are likely to find that for all its clever echoes and allusions, the whole production melts into air, into thin air. Margaret Atwood rewrites Shakespeare. Who will do it next — Gillian Flynn? Yes. 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Snodin knows Shakespeare's plays well enough to drop witty allusions as freely as Puck sprinkles love potion around the forest. 'Iago: A Novel' ? the morning after a bloody mess 2012-01-04T22:57:03Z It includes the words “major malfunction” as an allusion to a failed relationship. NASA Responds to Beyonce’s Challenger Audio Sample 2013-12-31T23:49:29Z But did you notice all the characters and allusions in the movie? Here’s What You Probably Missed in 'Batman v Superman' 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Wu-Tang Clan never seems to have much stagecraft — just a bunch of guys walking around and shouting their polysyllabic allusions, threats and comedy while the bass thuds. Music Review: Hip-Hop History, Recreated by Those Who Made It 2010-08-29T23:06:00Z The playful allusion makes sense, though, as the two shows have shared some love in the past. Latest Mad Men Episode Makes Super Obscure 30 Rock Reference 2013-04-23T21:16:12Z 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. T Bone Burnett Wants to Make Music to Heal Shrinking Attention Spans 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z But the movie, a Walt Disney release, also feels tame and compromised, a tissue of safe pop-culture allusions rather than an inspired, audacious engagement with older movies. Movie Review: ‘Frankenweenie,’ Tim Burton’s Homage to Horror Classics 2012-10-05T00:09:14Z With its southern gothic setting and Rust's bleak, atheistic speechifying, the series looked set to descend into a bayou of supernatural intrigue, dark literary allusion and horror from which there is no return. Down with dark: why screen drama needs to lighten up 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Sometimes, it’s a literary allusion to Persephone heading down to the subway; other times, Emer thinks she might have spotted Sobek with his crocodile head or Golems gathering in abandoned stations. Review | As a novelist, David Duchovny is no Sean Penn 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Yes, there are ballet references here, including funny, irreverent allusions to the actual choreography of “Apollo.” Review: Boundary-Pushing ‘Apollon’ Strips Myth to Its Marrow 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z As choreographed with a bracing electricity by Sergio Trujillo — the production’s most effective contributor — the number entertainingly incorporates allusions to the boxing ring and highlights the show’s muscularity, its most rewarding attribute. A Cuban ‘Carmen’ with a shortage of sizzle 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z It has been informally dubbed the Great Gate of Zev, in an allusion to "The Great Gate of Kiev," the magisterial finale of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition," and to Yaroslavsky's Ukrainian heritage. L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky exiting as a champion of arts 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z A host of literary allusions haunt this book, from “Cold Mountain” to “The Red Badge of Courage” and all the way back to Homer. In Hunt’s ‘Neverhome,’ natural poetry from a young wife who fights for the Union Strong language and sexual allusions, as well an incurable disease. In ‘Still Alice,’ a Professor Slides Into Alzheimer’s 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z I was amused by an interlude titled “Give the Bard a Break,” directed at journalists who festoon their copy with Shakespearean allusions. The Value and Virtue of Good Writing (Rule No. 7: Don’t Be a Bore) 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z The opening scene depicts singers inside glass containers dropping to the floor as they are enveloped in a white fog – a clear allusion to the gas chambers that killed millions in Nazi death camps. German Nazi-themed opera cancelled after deluge of complaints 2013-05-09T11:32:15Z His way also includes obvious allusions to a different kind of pot. Roy Choi, King of L.A. Food Trucks, Moves On to a Hotel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z So many adjectives and a Star Trek allusion promise great things. The Norseman: from bad to Norse 2013-07-04T15:27:57Z While Kim did not explicitly address the discussion about pay equity, many interpreted his remark that "the path to equality is rarely easy" as an allusion to the salary dispute. What Know About the Hawaii Five-0 Equal Pay Controversy 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Neither is there overt allusion to the Grecian setting of the tale. Dance Review: In Paris, Benjamin Millepied Rises to the Occasion 2014-05-12T10:57:39Z He and She, as the script refers to the central characters, begin rehearsals with wary glances and barbed allusions to their none-too-amicable parting. Theater Review: ‘Stage Kiss,’ a Sarah Ruhl Comedy, at Playwrights Horizons 2014-03-03T03:00:19Z Many of his lyrics feature standard hip-hop tropes, like allusions to sports and pop culture. How BMG Secretly Signed a Rapper Dropped for Antisemitic Lyrics 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z The reference to Gould is both an apt allusion and a telling contrast. A Portrait of the Artist as an Older Man 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z As with the too-cute-by-half “Pied Pipers” allusions and similar in-jokes, Mr. Ahonen seems to forget that a world exists beyond the visceral Amoralists and the pulpy genre they have appropriated. Theater Review: ‘The Bad and the Better,’ From the Amoralists 2012-06-20T22:57:53Z She puns with gusto, potently and unabashedly, until one begins reading double meanings, allusions and ulterior motives into everything. A Comic Novel Asks Who Gets to Write the History of the Colonial Philippines 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z His art is a hodge-podge of inconsistent and seemingly incompatible styles and manners, half-digested and invented myth, symbols, stories and allusions. Paul Gauguin: guilty as charged 2010-09-27T20:31:00Z Colonial and local allusions are shoehorned into back stories wherever possible. Book review: ‘The Lives of Others,’ by Neel Mukherjee During the class, she kept slipping in allusions to her teachers and to teachers that she and the students had in common. ‘It’s About Connections’: Alicia Graf Mack Remakes Juilliard Dance 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Though when jokes or allusions to art, literature or politics are seen as potentially elitist or alienating, it seems reasonable that people watching telly will be knowledgeable about TV. Outnumbered 2010-04-29T07:00:00Z These allusions don’t amount to anything and come off like futile, nonsensical bids to explain the German setting. Review: ‘Suspiria’ Is a Gaudy Freakout of Female Violence 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z And the social world he described should be captured in motion, not frozen in the stasis of manipulated symbol and pattern, of muted irony and elegantly veiled allusion. ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,’ by Zachary Leader 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Four episodes in, the plenitude of incident creates an effect more like dilution than density, and it’s hard to see the trees for the forest of allusion. “Castle Rock,” Reviewed: A Grab Bag of Stephen King Tropes Is Freshest When It Confronts the Real World 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z That kind of show business allusion is not new to the genre, of course. | 'Law & Order: Los Angeles': So, Picture Briscoe With a Tan 2010-09-28T22:53:00Z Each page is peppered with literary allusions, pop culture references and inside jokes. Book geeks will love Jasper Fforde's latest 2011-03-08T19:17:08Z They’re used for show — as though adding in allusions to and scenes of Black grief may increase the series’s credibility as a woke depiction of Blackness in America. The Unintended Racial Horror of ‘Lovecraft Country’ 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z The project was monumental and modern, with earnest allusions to ancient Athens. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z The tentative answers offered by his music — full of allusions, distortion and whispers of the past — suggest that the grappling itself is a vital part of that identity. Whispers of an Italian-Jewish Past Fill a Composer’s Music 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z The mischievous denial of his title’s obvious allusion is consistent with Mr. Naharin’s playful humor. Ohad Naharin and Batsheva Come to BAM With ?Hora? 2012-03-02T23:55:14Z In his tribute, Crystal noted "Robin Williams, what a concept," an allusion to the late comedian's landmark album. Emmys 2014: Billy Crystal recalls departed pal Robin Williams 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z 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. We Haven’t Seen That Before: A Critics’ Conversation About ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Lizzo and her dancers perform their choreography atop classical columns, positioning themselves as the muses – an allusion, perhaps, to the Black muses in Disney's animated film "Hercules." In "Rumors," Lizzo and Cardi B pull from the ancient Greeks, putting a new twist on an old tradition 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Clementine’s first name offers an allusion to a death in its echo of "Oh My Darling, Clementine," a parody of a folk song about the loss of a lover. The simple question that inspired "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z Each song offers its own gantlet of musical leaps and verbal allusions, though they keep circling back to personal breakups and societal breakdowns. Vampire Weekend Wraps Breakdowns in Musical Smiles on ‘Father of the Bride’ 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Maybe the allusions to color on a song like “Pink Matter” mean this. Five Great Podcasts From 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z His reviews are crammed with cultural allusions, political asides, aesthetic assumptions, and pocket histories. The Rock Critic Robert Christgau’s Big-Hearted Theory of Pop 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The pro-impeachment forces do not have a monopoly on allusions to sunlight. How an impeachment unfolds: Inside the 1974 Nixon hearings, day by day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z The film’s “temblores” — Spanish for “tremors” — are emblematic of the script’s preference for allusion over depth. ‘Temblores’ Review: Torn Between His Faith and His Sexuality 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z It went on to be shown at the New York Film Festival and several others, collecting positive reviews that highlighted allusions the series made to the Trump presidency. Filmmaker’s Suit Says A&E Networks Suppressed ‘Watergate’ Series 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z That's how I look at it, and there's a couple of allusions to that, even in the way the ending is shot. "Killing Eve" boss on that shocking finale: "It just felt like the most truthful end" 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z The six-minute “Searchlight,” inspired by Harper’s relationship with her mother, seemed to end before it even began, with a whisper of an allusion to their cross-generational connection, amid lots of busy ensemble work. Ailey II Review: A Light in the Darkness 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z At times, the choreography seems like a patchwork — yes, a mosaic — of allusions to ballet rituals and codes. Review: At City Ballet, Bending the Form’s Rituals and Codes 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z It is a truth universally acknowledged that we’ve grown awfully sloppy with allusions to Jane Austen. Perspective | Is it too late to read your first Jane Austen novel? 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Okri was surprised, he said, that early critics had missed its allusions to the Atlantic slave trade. It Took Nearly 30 Years. Is America Ready for Ben Okri Now? 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z The title is a nod to Scheherazade, and its complex plot delivers on the allusion in a surreal story that follows a wide cast of characters in the aftermath of a storm in New York. Spare Times for Oct. 16-22 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Here is a guide to some of his more memorable allusions from the last 30 years. A Guide to Watching Scorsese Movies Like an Insider 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z But such allusions do not really account for this show’s considerable attractions. ‘Extreme Nature!’ Review: Horror and Beauty in the World Around Us 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z But maybe the most important allusion here is the final verse’s reference to William Blake’s “The Tyger,” a poem in which the speaker poses questions about the tyger’s creator. Bob Dylan Creates a Perfect Storm on Tempest 2012-09-12T14:45:37Z Wells’s “The Time Machine,” and there’s even an allusion to — shades of Sherlock — “a Red-Headed League.” Review | For fans of ‘Game of Thrones,’ a new novel set amid the War of the Roses 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z The arts — literature, poetry, paintings — provide an escape for characters in unbearable situations, and classical allusions abound. Refugees Are Suffering. This Novelist Won’t Look Away. 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z The result is a movie that, for all its operatic allusions and actorly expertise, feels dismayingly passionless. Review: In ‘Bel Canto,’ Music Is the Food of Love and Rebellion 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z That allusion may or may not have been understood by those who sat alongside Duchamp on the organising committee; either way his co-directors were unimpressed. was rejected and banned from the 1917 Independents Exhibition. Putting modern art on the map 2012-08-24T20:35:17Z So Mr. Ghesquière delved into his memory box, remixing bits and pieces of the recent past, changing proportions, clashing patterns and messing with history in a complex game of dress-up and allusion. Louis Vuitton’s Teenage Dream 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z The Yass makeover was kept under wraps from the press, which was teased with allusions to a “top secret” and “special” Australian makeover. 'Yass Queen': Queer Eye cast descend on rural Australian town 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Croes is actually Belgian, not from Africa, but cross-cultural borrowing and cryptic allusions are central to his work. At the Armory Show, Solo Exhibitions and Colossal Displays 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z The mood is predominantly violent, an allusion to campus violence during the Vietnam War. Review: Music on the Edge Makes Its New York Debut 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z What is the significance of all these high-minded allusions? | 'Road to Nowhere': Trouble Ahead: Director Falls for Leading Lady 2011-06-09T22:50:55Z 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. A Wealthy Family’s Battle With Drugs Laid Bare, but to What End? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z The Russian literary allusions are no joke: this is a formidable and harrowing work. Jonathan Franzen's Freedom: the novel of the century 2010-08-23T11:18:00Z The Sonata Andina, both soulful and vibrant, incorporates allusions to the rhythms and harmonies of the Peruvian mountains in the opening “Scherzo Serrano.” Music Review: ‘Happy Birthday, Ursula!,’ a Tribute at Symphony Space 2014-03-11T22:07:11Z It also has allusions to Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” and Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Kong: Skull Island’ and ‘Signed’ 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z In many of the songs on your new album, the allusions to politics and current events are oblique. ArtsBeat Blog: Q. and A.: Tom Morello Offers 'a Record of Rousing Hopelessness' 2011-10-19T01:16:00Z 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. Review: ‘Counterpart’ Gives Us J.K. Simmons, Times Two 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z That allusion speaks for itself; for everything else, there’s Genius. Weekly Culture Review: Pulitzers, Kendrick Lamar, and More 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z 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. A Botanist in Swedish Lapland 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Owen is deft at shifting Marcus through various highs and lows, moving easily through dialogue laced with literary allusions, self-deprecating romantic gestures and destructive alcoholic rages. A battle of 'Words and Pictures' at Maine prep school 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z By contrast, the high style of mannerism, its mythological allusions, conflation of time and intricacy of design, is disconcerting, even alienating. For this Dutch master, a cigar is rarely just a cigar 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z “There’s a feeling you get when you turn to a song and you know that the words have two meanings,” Google confirmed in a playful statement, complete with Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven” allusions. Google Adds Some Song Lyrics to Search Results 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Trump is never named in these pages, but the allusion is clear. Review | Donald Trump has made feminist dystopias great again 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Your scholarly article “Streets of Rome: The Classical Dylan” unpacks a less noted aspect of his lyrics — allusions to ancient Greek and Roman literature. Bob Dylan 101: A Harvard Professor Has the Coolest Class on Campus 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z If she weren’t here with us, she says in a droll allusion to one of her more flamboyant performance pieces she’d probably just be at home in her kitchen, “rolling around in honey.” Karen Finley Relives the AIDS Epidemic in ‘Written in Sand’ 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s a strange series of allusions and hints. The Curiously Generic Journalists of "Spotlight" 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z But he is generous on this score: If you get his allusions, great. Perspective | The ugly underside of Brad Pitt’s cool car in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Mr. David is the reverse: he makes glancing allusions to books and movies and relies on his own amusing, unexpected flights of fancy. Television Review: ‘Clear History,’ Starring Larry David, on HBO 2013-08-09T21:51:47Z It’s an allusion to the fact that McGowan took the cash rather than the stand. Caped crusader: who is the real target of Natalie Portman's reply to Rose McGowan? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z The Beethovenian allusion in the title seemed a long way from the tiny shards of spatially distinct sound generated by players scattered all through the hall and high up in the boxes. Philharmonia/Salonen – review 2012-09-28T11:49:31Z His libretto is sprinkled with allusions to some of these favorite poems, as his hero shores himself against ruin with quotes from W.B. Opera With Atmosphere of Brave New World 2010-10-04T12:00:00Z Godard sees that the life of a couple isn’t just literary allusions and philosophical divagations, and he bears witness to male brutality. Godard’s Revolutionary 3-D Film 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z There were lots of allusions on Sunday both to the family’s roots in El Salvador and some sort of dark past. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Recap: The Cavalry's Arrived 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z The most compelling of these images transcend specific allusions. Art Review: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-08-22T19:55:31Z And he isn’t decorously posed in a classical structure; he isn’t contained in an ordered space with Greek or Roman allusions. Memorial Review: Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Opens in Washington 2011-08-25T12:00:00Z 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. Spike Lee’s ‘Pass Over,’ an Offbeat Melding of Cinema and Theater 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z “Created equal,” it says, a proud allusion to the Gettysburg Address and the Declaration of Independence before it. Women’s Voices Festival a Potent Reminder of Who Goes Unheard Onstage 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Back in 1964, Bond’s allusion to his tumescent member earned a gasp or a giggle. The James Bond Films at 50: A Golden Franchise for the Ages 2012-10-05T12:00:58Z Not that Shakespeare is a newcomer to the gratuitous allusion game. It’s Time to Turn the Page on the Trump-Shakespeare Comparisons 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Your album is strewn with references, hints and allusions. David Bowie's Son Breaks Social Media Silence to Share Emotional Thank You 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z But an allusion to the infinite, integral to those stories, is abundantly clear in the repeated wave pattern and the sweeping loop of the textiles. Review: ‘Everything has been material for scissors to shape’ is a flow of textiles, interrupted 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Distant as all this is from the original story, Mr. Capasso and Mr. Van Horn pepper the piece with allusions to the Dickens tale. Music Review: ?A Christmas Carol,? the (Operatic) Sequel 2010-12-17T23:46:56Z The suggestion is that Ceinwen is as wrapped up in the mystery of Miriam and her movie as Austen’s Catherine Moreland was with gothic romances, but that allusion never gains meaning in the novel. A novel in love with movies and movie love 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Perhaps the shadow of “Heart of Darkness” is too long and the allusions to other works too thick on the ground. Books of The Times: Will Perilous Trek to Amazon Reveal Heart of Darkness? 2011-06-01T22:30:03Z That allusion, and more, come from Mad Men and Philosophy: Nothing Is as It Seems — a book of essays that examines the show through a philosophical lens. The Meaning of Mad Men: Philosophers Take on TV 2010-08-07T07:45:00Z The lunching Clive James was renowned for flashing plenty of literary skirt – references to the Russians, allusions to Mandarin poetry, and a touchingly sincere auto-didacticism. Clive James – a life in writing 2013-07-05T07:45:01Z Her lines of lyrics are long, fast, polysyllabic, intricately rhymed, packed with convoluted allusions and delivered with melodic inflections — her own extension of the rapping virtuosity of the 1990s, ambitious but never bombastic. On Her Debut Album, Noname Is a Sly Hip-Hop Maverick 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z There are activewear references, military flourishes, Yeti allusions and a hint of the rebellious flower child. Chitose Abe of Sacai: Fashion that deconstructs the familiar, intrigues the eye 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z These inferences tended to rest on rudimentary allusions: either racialized stereotypes about Hernandez falling into "gangsta life" after his father's death or simplistic assumptions about brain damage causing criminal acts. How portrayals of the NFL are shaping criminal justice reform 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z They have some persuasive ideas: Passages suggesting that Kubrick conceived the film as an allegory for genocide — filling it with allusions to the Holocaust and to the slaughter of Native Americans — are convincing. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z The movie, an uneasy amalgam of horror and allegory, full of creepy, gory effects and literary and mythological allusions, amounts to a sustained and specific indictment of the titular gender. ‘Men’ Review: Putting the ‘Male’ in Malevolent 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Lest anyone get upset about artistic license, Luiselli includes a detailed works cited page that sources those quotes, allusions and craft decisions. Review | An author delivers a powerful plea for migrant children 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z This ironic allusion to “the Chinese Dream” — President Xi Jinping’s national slogan — is just the kind of sly protest that keeps Yan’s novels suppressed in his native country. Review | ‘The Day the Sun Died’ is a social comedy that bleeds like a zombie apocalypse 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Still, unabashed theater geeks will forgive the show’s flaws for the sake of the wacky yet insidery jokes, which include sly allusions to several local and national Shakespeare controversies and ventures. What do you get when you mash up Shakespeare and sci-fi? ‘Fear.’ 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z The masterpiece is called A Universe Made Of Strings, and while allusions to string theory and parallel dimensions are in order, no-one can deny the sprawling ambition that the group have laboured to achieve. July's best new music from across the MAP 2011-07-18T08:26:00Z The Grail went global, with allusions to the contrast between the opulence of Catholic ritual in South America and the sordid social conditions in the favelas. Christoph Schlingensief obituary 2010-08-24T17:44:00Z That show, which appeared at the Public in 2005, and which centered upon the theme of the loss of faith, made allusion to the events of 9/11 without ever referring specifically to them. The Public Theatre at Fifty: “A Machine for Making Community” 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Through even the craziest passages of “The Making of Zombie Wars,” Hemon stitches in allusions to Spinoza’s rationalist philosophy. ‘The Making of Zombie Wars’ goes beyond the undead 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z There are the marks, the layering, the allusions to current events. Julie Mehretu on Her Influences, Auction Pressure and New Paintings 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The plot is filled with sacred allusions — the Flood, angels, Bethlehem, a crucifixion, a deus ex machina and more — but they’re all skewed. Review | Lydia Millet’s ‘A Children’s Bible’ is a blistering classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Such questions, like the novel’s copious literary allusions, lend Nora’s story a depth lacking in your everyday psychological thriller. Books of The Times: ‘The Woman Upstairs,’ by Claire Messud 2013-05-02T16:47:10Z Maria Minerva is working on a master’s in art and theory at Goldsmiths College in London, and her recordings teem with allusions to philosophy and critical theory. Music: Female Artists With a Penchant for Synth Sounds 2011-10-09T03:30:07Z But allusions to creative freedom as a defense strike me as the same sort of pride and intransigence Shakespeare cautions against in “Coriolanus.” Review: At Stratford, ‘Coriolanus’ Is Riveting and Troubling 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Surprise: Watts’s novel is unfairly freighted with this allusion to its distant, white ancestor. ‘No One Is Coming to Save Us’: ‘Gatsby’ gets a revolutionary reboot 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Shorter is a notoriously elliptical conversationalist, prone to cosmic digression and quick-fire allusion. Wayne Shorter’s New Album Is ‘Without a Net’ 2013-01-31T17:38:26Z Called Hot Fudge, an allusion to the other play, Corduner recalls that this unexpected extra was "rehearsed and staged in record time". Caryl Churchill, by the people who know her best 2012-10-03T17:44:37Z You might also note allusions to more recent art history. Review: Pierre Huyghe Mixes Stones and Water for Roof Garden at the Met 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z This process is apt considering The Waste Land includes allusions to show tunes, operas, folk ballads and ragtime songs among its linguistic flotsam and jetsam. I will show you Arcade Fire in a handful of dust: why pop music loves TS Eliot 2012-05-23T12:11:40Z 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. Times Critics Discuss Their Year in Books, From New Talents to Old Favorites 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z The picture is thick with allusions to “aliens” as enemies of the people, dangerous forces that will only come back stronger when we try to vanquish them. Review: Superheroes Duke It Out in 'Batman v Superman' 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z His portraits, she observes, “embody allusions to ‘the women question’ that are far from straightforward to read.” Klimt’s Women, Real and on Canvas 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Some political allusions, whether glaring or opaque, are inevitable — not least because Hollywood believes in the power of storytelling, and its own power to reshape America’s sense of itself. Oscars 2017: What to Watch For 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z In the border region between Germany and the Czech Republic — or Saxony and Bohemia in earlier times — where this grim scene unfolds, allusions to ruinous battle imagery strike multiple chords. Getty's Josef Koudelka retrospective is grim yet riveting 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z “Penny Dreadful” tries to do so with a combination of literary allusion, fine acting, patience and fearlessness, which, at least for the first two episodes, clicks deliciously. Television Review: ‘Penny Dreadful,’ Showtime’s Supernatural Entry 2014-05-09T22:49:10Z 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. Review: Aaron Weinstein, Wunderkind as Highbrow Dandy 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z At least half of Shakespeare's allusions are unfamiliar, and many senses, puns and proverbial usages have been completely lost. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z Murakami said in a rare public appearance Monday at Kyoto University that the novel reflects his deep interest in real people and relationships rather than allusions. In rare appearance, Murakami talks about new book 2013-05-06T18:31:05Z In its allusion to a vital city built from the ruins of a once mighty empire, the garden is an obvious allegory for China. Architecture Review: Koolhaas, Delirious in Beijing 2011-07-12T12:26:40Z The revival developed after the nation’s centennial celebrations in 1876, when the scars of the Civil War and the struggles of Reconstruction were salved by these allusions to an almost pastoral colonial past. Exhibition Review: National Design That?s Hidden in Plain Sight 2011-06-13T22:41:43Z More satisfying are the moments when Petri fuses her sly “Hamlet” allusions to a portrait of loneliness, companionship and power dynamics in the Internet age. Review | What would happen if Hamlet was a girl in the Internet age? 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z At nearly 600 pages, the novel teems with allusions to Kafka, Mann, Borges and Madame de Staël. Andrés Neuman’s New Novel Is ‘Talking to Ourselves’ 2014-04-16T20:50:36Z She also slips in allusions to “Day of the Locust” and “The Big Sleep.” The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Strikes Back, and Fleet Foxes Return With a Folky Epic 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Another metaphoric sculpture is a rowboat made entirely of suitcases, an allusion to the numerous immigrants who, like Mr. Uribe, crossed bodies of water to begin anew in the United States. | Westchester: Federico Uribe’s Man-Made Nature, in Yonkers 2013-06-21T23:35:51Z That raven perched above the Tahitian girl in Nevermore: is it a harbinger, a real bird, a heavy allusion to Edgar Allan Poe? Gauguin: Maker of Myth 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z “Idioms, puns, nuances, inferences, metaphors, allusions and sarcasm are lost” on children with autism, Nothbohm writes. 7 Things Every Kid with Autism Wishes You Knew 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z There are also explanatory essays and discussions of each album as a cohesive work, but that often means that certain repeated allusions in individual songs will only make sense hundreds of pages into the book. A new biography of David Bowie, rock's great chameleon 2012-08-08T19:39:07Z Mr. Huang’s appeal is not only in what he says, but how he says it — a profane concatenation of Mandarin and African-American vernacular English, spiced with allusions to Jonathan Swift, Charles Barkley and Cam’ron. Eddie Huang Defies Description 2013-01-23T22:59:19Z The work, with allusions to music from Tibet and Kazakhstan, received a shapely reading on Saturday by Joseph Maile, violinist, with the busy Mr. Pearson at the piano. Music: Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood 2010-08-17T22:36:00Z Once again Mr. Ives freely indulges in contemporary allusion, adding a vivifying seasoning of freshness to a farcical plot that combines elements of classic French comedy with more robust Italianate buffoonery. Critic?s Notebook: Madoff, Macbeth and Other Crooks, Onstage in Washington 2011-09-28T22:45:26Z The book gets rolling with an epigraph from O’Hara — “All I want is boundless love” — and the pages that follow are peppered with allusions to the bard of “Lunch Poems.” To Light Up a Dark Time, Effervescent Poems of New York City 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z And, in a now deleted tweet, Carney called the cover “an allusion to our current immigration debate taking the #poemlaw side.” This Breitbart editor’s conspiracy theory about the cover of Vogue is peek #MAGA 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z But it seems safe to say that the web of allusions woven by the show’s creator, Dan Harmon, and his staff serves a double purpose. Critic?s Notebook: ?Community? Resumes Its Study of Friendship 2012-03-14T22:39:24Z But Brett smartly veers her story away from the expected one, despite the allusions to “Alice in Wonderland” and Ovid’s “Metamorphoses.” What if You Could Live in All Your Parallel Universes at Once? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Backed by government and guns, the scientists prove to be colonialists by another name, an idea that the filmmakers bat around a bit, including in allusions to Joseph Conrad’s novella “Heart of Darkness.” Review: ‘Kong: Skull Island’ Crosses a 1933 Classic With ‘Apocalypse Now’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Poetic technique, allusions and cultural references can’t bolster rather ordinary experiences: loneliness, bad romances, throwing up. Review | Her first memoir was about working as a dominatrix. How can a writer top that? 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z There are allusions here and there, and mentions of things like “self-therapy” and “hallucinatory” visions, along with the revealing titles she has given to her works, such as “I Who Have Taken an Anti-Depressant.” Perspective | An exhibition of the beloved Kusama with everything but Kusama herself 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The dance is peppered with allusions to canonical ballets. Turning ‘a Nightmare of Ghoulish Obscenities’ Into a Ballet 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z There were allusions to the way nightmare terrors were working their way into the culture. Scary Movie: The Fear Factor of Mad Men’s Season Six 2013-06-18T14:32:02Z Are these allusions to an earthquake, the crackled desert floor, ice, the “disappeared” of the Pinochet regime, or intimations of death? Pina Bausch’s ‘Como el muguito’ at BAM 2012-10-07T05:10:06Z 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. Review: In ‘Ready Player One,’ Spielberg Plays the Nostalgia Game 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z But in Grieg’s vigorous Third Violin Sonata, pervasive allusions to Norwegian folk song and dance were short on crispness and distinctive character. Sitkovetsky, Qian show their talent and enthusiasm at Phillips 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z These are usually allusions to outdated objects and systems, and the ways in which we gather, mourn, and give them new value: the old document, the old language, the archive, the archival. Peter Gizzi, a Poet of Sound and Time 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z But that cosmic allusion is just a launchpad for improvisations that depict layered forms and patterns “in space and in the space of our bodies,” as Marchand’s statement puts it. Review | In the galleries: Autobiographical pieces prevail at the Trawick Prize 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z A distinctively American vision is planted throughout the action of “Us,” with an explicit and monitory allusion to the notion of national destiny. Review: Jordan Peele’s “Us” Is a Colossal Cinematic Achievement 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z 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. This Artist Is Calvin Klein’s Latest Muse 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z At art college in the late 1980s, after working his way through a litany of styles, Grassie found himself adrift on art's sea of allusion. Artist of the week 132: Andrew Grassie 2011-04-01T10:35:10Z His starkly framed images stand on their own, without making literary allusions or grand metaphors, quite unlike the formal experimentation and subversive social commentary of Todd Haynes, Levy’s third subject. ‘Gay Directors, Gay Films?’ review: Onscreen depiction of sexuality 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Rendering these pronunciations on paper gives Riddley Walker the physical intimacy of throat and mouth working, but there's depth and allusion to it to. Why Riddley Walker rivals the Passion as the perfect Easter story 2013-04-01T09:00:02Z Cartier Williams, a young and emphatic virtuoso, represented solo tap, charming the crowd with a galloping allusion to the “William Tell” overture. Dance Review: New York City Tap Festival Climax at World Financial Center 2012-07-15T21:07:43Z His deep love of literature is evident in his artworks, which still include fragments of text, as well as photographs of favorite writers and layers of literary allusions. Review | Peter Sacks is one of the most compelling artists in America. But he didn’t find his voice until late in life. 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Everything seems typically Hemingway — a writer protagonist and plenty of fishing, fine food and wine, and allusions to war — when Catherine takes a sharp turn into gender-switching. The androgyny of being Ernest: A gender-fluid reading of Hemingway that upends his macho image 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z It’s tempting to imagine this is an allusion to Caesar’s decree mentioned by Luke, but resist! — only frustration lies in that direction. Review | J.M. Coetzee’s ‘The Schooldays of Jesus’ raises more questions than it answers 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Sherman nods to the troubles migrants faced in cities; far upstage, three figures in mourning dress file by quickly, an allusion to a Lawrence painting. Review: Finding the Beat and Pulse of the Great Migration 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z A large area serves as a bustling cafe, with a smaller space to the side for more intimate scenes; upstage, members of Juilliard Dance bounce through Mr. Millepied’s rustic allusions almost continually. Opera Review: ?Bartered Bride? a Fine Start to Marriage of Met and Juilliard 2011-02-16T13:36:30Z The meaning of the names didn’t stop him: as someone with a longstanding passion for early music, he would immediately have recognized 415 as an allusion to Baroque pitch. Classical Groups Get Creative With Names 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z People who inject drugs are referenced three times, though there are allusions to drug abuse. UN pledges to end Aids epidemic but plan barely mentions those most at risk 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The Garner allusion was certainly not in good taste. Richard Pryor, Flame-Thrower 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, they got so busy showing off their allusions that the solid songs were buried in gimmicks. New Music: New CDs From Broken Bells, Toni Braxton and Babyface 2014-02-03T22:25:14Z But despite some early allusions, Dirk is not the Nutcracker himself, which may be what sets this novel on its pedestrian trajectory. If you liked ‘Wicked,’ you’ll be enchanted by ‘Hiddensee’ 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z And what do we make of these allusions to Samson, the seemingly invincible warrior, brought down by Delilah's trickery? "Mad Men" recap: Welcome home 2010-09-06T13:43:00Z Yet I’m not bothered by musical approximations and allusions in dramas, as long as the drama itself has the spirit of music. “Whiplash” Gets Jazz All Wrong 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z The Twittersphere responded with allusions to “1984,” and Penguin announced plans for a special 75,000-copy reprint , noting that since the inauguration, sales for the novel have increased by 9,500 percent. Why Orwell’s ‘1984’ matters so much now 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Its allusions are to the architecture of Colonial America, which was itself a kind of reduced version of Georgian English style. Exhibition Review: National Design That?s Hidden in Plain Sight 2011-06-13T22:41:43Z His constant allusions to the Bible — that old book — mean nothing to her. Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Lila:’ an exquisite novel of spiritual redemption and love The epic poem tells of the divine king and his quest for immortality, and includes allusions to more familiar stories such as the Garden of Eden and the Great Flood. Leo Hollis's top 10 books about cities 2013-04-26T07:37:40Z |
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