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With its allusions to murder, it plays like a haunting, chiming, loping update of the Louvin Brothers' murder ballad Knoxville Girl.

This is not the Jeffersonian language of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," with its allusions to the Enlightenment, nor is it the language of the Bill of Rights, which limits government power.

Its allusions to the movies that precede it are many: The family's crude, eggnog-swilling Aunt Dorothy Conchata Ferrelll) recalls the alkie sorority mother (Marian Waldman) from Black Christmas; Krampus' legion demonic familiars skitter and cackle like Joe Dante's Gremlins.

It's there in the very title with its allusions to Rat Pack glamour, rather than nuclearised meat served up in Doncaster.

With its allusions to early jazz rhythms and melodic shapes, it makes for a pleasant if not especially challenging eight minutes.

Some may miss the absence of songs in Monsters, Inc - at least partly because they would give us a break from the frenetic pace - but it is just so staggeringly generous with its witty lines, its allusions, above all with its sheer visual spectacle.

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You can see why, with its sleek storyline, its sharp, glittering narrative fragments, its carefully honed sentences, its heroic women and its shadowy men, its spanning of generations and continents, its epic allusions, its sense of the sublime, its love story in a time of war.

In its allusion to the absurd nature of Camus's death, The Times got it only half right.

In its allusion to a vital city built from the ruins of a once mighty empire, the garden is an obvious allegory for China.

The former Arkansas governor made the comment, with its allusion to the Holocaust, in a conversation with the conservative news site Breitbart.com.

The poem's contrastingly utilitarian title and, crucially, its allusion to European history and culture (that "corselet"), are other key elements in this mature paradigm.

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