He is spot on in his assessment of the allusion-packed, overcooked, dead-on-arrival poems that are often passed off as high literature these days.
His prose is salted with references to his forebears (like a particularly on-the-nose allusion to the famous parenthetical "(picnic, lightning)" from Nabokov's Lolita), which sometimes suggest a touch of creative insecurity.
The romance piles on with the allusions.
Nevertheless, Polaroid sought to capitalize on the allusion, hiring Ryan Berger of the Euro RSCG advertising agency.
In this case, the phrase offers little more than a nod and a wink, balancing the future of thousands of jobs on the allusion of back-door negotiations.
Deeper in the woodwork, it's hard not to dote on all the allusions that, as good Americans, we're expected to spot without nudging, of which the funniest is the tribute to "The Godfather" that places "Barzini, a legitimate craftsman from Rhode Island," among the Constitution's framers.
Yet again, Mr. Kosinski fails to build on his materials and the allusions soon fade.
In many of the songs on your new album, the allusions to politics and current events are oblique.
It is striking that both he and Mr. Lagerfeld drew on medievalism, though at Chanel the allusions were more subtle: a yoke of golden embroidery, say, on a black tunic dress, or a high-collared coat in ecclesiastical scarlet.
In the reckless moment the damned don't cry: they kiss tomorrow goodbye and pile on the movie allusions.
