He edited it and added an arch voice-over featuring a profusion of references, quotations, jokes, and asides.
Tish, an ignorant pretty boy, is given a show entitled The History of Western Art, which is "a complex joke about art, full of references, quotations, puns and anagrams", and even though he is unable in interviews to comment on or even understand his own supposed creation, the work is an instant success.
With a welter of references and quotations she surveys the panoramic view that books, poetry, memoirs give us.
Per questionnaire, the number of quotations would have been between 1 and 66, with an arithmetic mean of 10.41, a lower quartile of 3, a median of 6 and an upper quartile of 12 13; the mode would have been 2. In the 64 questionnaires (representing the same number of references) actually sent, 709 quotations (91% of all quotations) were included in the total.
He's also a great adapter, not only of whole texts but of quotations and cultural references to be sprinkled over his own work or knitted together with it.
And his staff issued a compendium of similar quotations and references to votes that document Mr. Gore's opposition to federal financing of abortions for poor women.
The opera is full of such ruptures, of allusions to the theatre, and also of quotations and self-references.
The production's sulky hero, Constantine (also known as C-Trip and played by Anthony Mackie) is a walking, flaking, suicidal collage of tattered quotations and references.
Why, the production's sulky hero, Constantine (also known as C-Trip and played by the handsome Anthony Mackie), is a walking, flaking, suicidal collage of tattered quotations and references.
Frequently James will wrap a web of quotations, footnotes and references to historical documents – both fictional and real – around his stories (he begins one with a block of Latin), giving them not only an air of authenticity but also an essay-like quality, so that the expertly handled intrusion of horror arrives all the more powerfully.
