But, aside from referencing a couple of glory moments from Tesco's past (Operation Checkout in 1977; and the launch of Clubcard in 1993), he gave few hints of radicalism.
Aside from reference products, in this case a cutting board, an entire offering could be built around this with the prices scaling to suit those with small amounts and those with large amounts.
Aside from the references to Falun Gong's plight, the two-hour performance was an elaborately stitched homage to Chinese traditions.
What makes this genuine world music, aside from the references, is the weaving of the political into the fabric of what are still, basically, dance tunes.
On this trip the most troublesome neighbour has been utterly ignored (aside from joint references by the leaders on the need to fight terrorism in all forms); nor does anyone wonder whether Mr Obama is going to mention Kashmir.
Quite aside from the references to macrame, sensitivity training and geodesic domes, isn't it well accepted by now that the opportunity for women to "have it all" wasn't a panacea for them, nor for relations between the sexes, nor for the family, nor for the economy?
Throughout "That Fish Is Broke" (aside from its references to water and malfunction — or poverty — the title was mysterious), whenever Johnson was onstage, the playfulness that Forti had so effortlessly established at the outset was dampened by his too obvious associations, and the organic development that is so necessary in an improv performance, and so satisfying, was missing.
Secular music undoubtedly flourished during the early Middle Ages, but, aside from sporadic references, the earliest accounts of such music in the Western world described the music of the goliards itinerant minor clerics and students who, from the 7th century on, roamed the land singing and playing topical songs dealing with love, war, famine, and other issues of the day.
Aside from the reference to drones — delivered in a tone so soft that reporters in the room strained to hear him — Mr. Sharif also sounded conciliatory.
We see a Behan promiscuous and dissolute, literary but not political: His republican past (aside from a reference to him as an "ex-revolutionary") is ignored, as are his detentions as a youth in Britain for I.R.A. activities, which informed his 1958 memoir, "Borstal Boy".
