But the only real reference to the sinister spirit of exploitation is the theater owner's declaration to his audience that "we provide the best in colored entertainment".
Also, the song "Stars of Track and Field" by Scottish indie rock band Belle and Sebastian, from the album If You're Feeling Sinister makes reference to the town of Widnes in the lyrics, as does the song "Watch Your Step" by Elvis Costello from his album Trust.
opening reference to the war in Yugoslavia.
The sinister wit of the text provides a striking indictment of junior hockey culture: I've seen hockey players who were freshly drafted into the NHL or toiling in Junior C, knowingly or unknowingly, make reference to The Junior Hockey Bible.
The word sinister, after all, comes from the Latin reference to the left hand.
Altman's professed impatience with "most people" takes on a sinister undertone in the context of his repeated references to the annihilation of human life or its replacement by "levelled up" humans.
The Russians, to whom Rebus refers sourly as "the moneymen of the Volga," would be sinister enough without regular references to the gruesome radiation poisoning of the former K.G.B. officer Alexander Litvinenko, whose dramatic death places the book's action in November 2006.
Listen to the sinister remix above.
The title refers to the red soil in a certain sinister landscape.
Los Angeles may be the only city on Earth where a reference to Venice inspires the question, "Which one?" Our own Venice parallels the jewel of the Adriatic in artistic sensuousness, free-wheeling hedonism, sinister nighttime streets and tatty opulence.
