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(Bach labeled the second movement "Air" -- a sprightly tune; here it works as a hidden reference to the show's title, "Water Fire Earth Air").

Say it fast four or five times and the hidden reference to Mickey Spillane's notably brutal character Mike Hammer grandly emerges.

"I was studying American and British fiction, and she was studying African contemporary fiction, and her theory was that any time you saw a sack in African literature, it was a hidden reference to the transatlantic slave trade.

The escapades of the older ones had been harmless enough during the nineteen-twenties heyday of the Bright Young People Evelyn Waughh even worked a hidden reference to twelve-year-old Decca's pet lamb into "Vile Bodies"), but they proved a good deal less amusing when conducted under the darker clouds of the decade that followed.

Despite widespread suspicion that the title of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" contained a hidden reference to LSD, Lennon insisted that it was derived from a pastel drawing by his four-year-old son Julian.

To educate them, the Ch?let recently brought in Alain Perroux, an expert in lyrical drama, to lecture on the musical antecedents of Mr. Sondheim's masterpiece, starting with its opening high-pitched whistle to its hidden references to Gregorian chants, and including its Brechtian overtones.

During the reign of the Shah, "we went to see films not just to learn about national cinema but to look for hidden references to tyranny and domination," said Hamid Dabashi, the Hagop Kevorkian professor of Iranian studies and comparative literature at Columbia University, who has written extensively about Iranian cinema.

Olsson listens to a lot of hip-hop in the studio, and you'll find hidden references to favorite lyrics buried subliminally in her art.

Olsson listens to a lot of hip hop in the studio, and you'll find hidden references to favourite lyrics buried subliminally in her art.

Episodes often contain more or less hidden references to older pop culture (especially noticeable in the episode "Meet the Beat Alls," having been an homage to the Beatles).

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