The title may be a punning reference to Young's producer, but it's also entirely apt.
"Hell As" refers to Hellas, the Greek word for Greece, but might also be a punning reference to the French word for alas — hélas — and an earlier Godard film, "Hélas Pour Moi," which retells the myth of Amphitryon and Alcmene.
In 467 Cimon won the great Battle of the Eurymedon River in Pamphylia (southern Anatolia), a naval victory that made a great impression both in Greece (where it was celebrated by the dedication of a bronze date palm, or phoinix, at Delphi: a punning reference to the defeated Phoenician fleet) and among waverers, outside Greece proper, who had not yet joined the league.
She entitled the book "Halakim Enoshiyim," or "Human Parts," a punning reference to the myriad characters she follows and to the grisly aftereffects of a suicide bombing.
Mr. Muzicant plans to sue Mr. Haider over a speech last month in which Mr. Haider made a punning reference to his name.
Maybe he can even manage to change the unwieldy and ugly label Animation Domination High-Def, or A.D.H.D., the only title I can think of that combines an existing corporate trademark with a punning reference to a childhood behavioral disorder.
Muhly had entitled the piece "Seeing Is Believing," a punning reference to the problem of reconciling faith with science faced by the sixteenth-century astronomers whose studies had provided the score's original inspiration.
His first words are a punning aside to the audience, and his first reply to the king is a cryptic retort.
Back then, they were ex-students and postpunk, leftwing deconstructionists – their name was a punning nod to the writings of Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci.
Somewhat more recondite was the punning reference delivered in one of Gerard Hoffnung's parody concerts: "If Boosey's will Hawk it, Schott's will Tippett" (from Punkt Contrapunkt at Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival with John Amis, Royal Festival Hall, 21 and 22 November 1958).
Parkman is not some mythic rich savior with an appropriately punning name; it's a reference to George Francis Parkman, Jr. (1823-1908), whoseponymousus fund created more than a century ago with a gift of $5 million still provides a modicum of support for Boston Common and other parks and open spaces.
