There is much allusion (often to the Bible or to Jewish liturgy).
Although the Sharon is mentioned only once in the New Testament (Acts 9 35), it is frequently referred to in rabbinic literature, often with allusions to its fertility.
Often, the allusions are either included within longer melodies or rendered in an odd stylistic context that veils the source material.
It hardly helps that those echoes often mirror allusions to literature and popular culture in Mr. Zimet's text, from Thomas Mann to television.
Often, vague allusions to "dinner" or "platters" or "drinks" are enough for the writer, who knows the imaginations of their readers will fill in the blanks.
The careful listener will often hear allusions to or even direct samples of the pop that those who came of age in the 60's tend to think of as their parents' music: film soundtracks, soft bachelor-pad jazz and even the weird electronic demonstration albums that Dad would adjust the hi-fi's settings to.
During the late 1970s and '80s they turned to historical precedent in their work, which often made studied allusions to building styles of the past.
Mr. Dylan has often sprinkled literary allusions into his music and cited the influence of poetry on his lyrics, and has referenced Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine and Ezra Pound.
The band's original name was Klaxons (Not Centaurs), quoting the art text "The Futurist Manifesto," and its verses often sling literary allusions, from "The Odyssey," Aleister Crowley, William S. Burroughs and Thomas Pynchon; the first Klaxons single was "Gravity's Rainbow".
The photos are dense with religious allusions, often mixed and melded: a woman's long, draping robes could be a Muslim head scarf or the veil of a Renaissance Madonna; towering headdresses mimic Islamic minarets, connecting the ground and the sky; a streak of paint running from forehead to chin evokes pre-Islamic native traditions.
