The big ritual scenes allude both to the Spanish Inquisition and the Ku Klux Klan, yet the imagery and stagecraft sometimes prove distracting.
By 1991, Multiple Miggs was able to allude both lewdly and bluntly to Agent Starling's genitalia, while the Brits took things even further with Trainspotting in 1995 and then Ben Kingsley's c-word-fixated Don Logan in 2001.
The highly structured, geometric compositions allude both to architectural worlds and pure ornamentation -- both of which derive pleasure from the pure ritual of creating order.
Set during Easter time, the story alludes both to Christian and Buddhist notions of death, rebirth and acceptance.
His title alludes both to the great Anglo-Saxon poem, which provides the play's epigraph, and to Sharky, an "erstwhile fisherman / van driver / chauffeur".
The video playfully alludes both to Warhol's use of art (and wigs) to confer celebrity — the former a practice MTV is clearly emulating — and to the sultry self-documentation and self-promotion of every girl with a Facebook account.
A memoir of disintegration, he called it, alluding both to its chopped up, collaged structure and to the landscape it maps: a place of loss and danger, of transient beauty and dogged resistance.
The second word in the band's name alludes both to the eponymous British punk rock movement of the nineteen-seventies (associated, often incorrectly, with neo-Nazi movements) and the Yiddish "oy," which is perhaps the most concise expression of angst in the history of language.
(When I asked about the meaning of one popular chant, "I'm sorry Tayyip but you look like a light bulb," I was told that it alluded both to the light-bulb logo of Erdoğan's conservative Islamist A.K. Party, and to the shape of Erdoğan's head).
Composed of hundreds of floating, hand-modeled beeswax pellets linked by an openwork mesh of string, it alludes both to the natural world (buds, stars) and to the Internet, and points to the networking concept of art in the exhibition ahead.
"We even have a borough administrator named Barney," said Mayor Al Schweikert, a relative newcomer who arrived in 1992, alluding both to Barney Wahl and to the character played by Don Knotts on the "The Andy Griffith Show," which was set in the iconic Mayberry.
