The 14 songs all have secondary, parenthetical titles, and so does the album, which is fully titled "Hail to the Thief (or, The Gloaming)." The deluge of words beyond the lyrics on "Hail to the Thief" isn't art-rock refrigerator poetry.
(Nate Chinen) Background Music (The Music of Lennie Tristano) (Wednesday) Notice the parenthetical in the title: the equivalent of an arched eyebrow, given that Tristano, a pianist-composer of midcentury cult intrigue, was not exactly known for supper-club fare.
"California Dreamin' " is being released as it was shown in Cannes in 2007, which is to say in an unfinished (or, as the title parenthetically suggests, "endless") state.
Parenthetical to Bernstein's title are the words "(After Plato's 'Symposium')," and indeed the movements line up against Phaedrus, Aristophanes and the whole Socratic gang.
The coy use of the parenthetical plural in the title of "Histoire(s)" has since become a clich?f postmodernist criticism, an alibi meant to ward off accusations of authoritarianism or essentialism, but Mr. Godard is using it in a different way.
She used no material under copyright, she said, and the dialogue is her own -- thus the parenthetical remark in the play's title.
Parenthetically, Louis Malle's 1960 film (the title character's name is spelled "Zazie") is much less fun than the novel by Raymond Queneau on which it's based.
The front of the picture sleeve was topped with the line "(We've Got to Relieve)" before the words "Bangla Desh", leading a number of publications to include the parenthetical text as part of the official song title.
The titles of the dishes below, with their parenthetical descriptions, are taken more or less verbatim from the menu, where the dishes are given Greek or Latin names.
