I was admiring the sleazy blues of "Rage of Plastics" in a cab, on the way to the airport, when I caught a line about "the silent spring" — a reference to Rachel Carson's work about the chemical industry and its effects on the environment.
The filmmakers dubbed the cockroach WALL-E keeps as a pet "Hal", in reference to silent film producer Hal Roach (as well as being an additional reference to HAL 9000).
Trump acknowledged his sympathy with Nixon when he began his campaign in 2015 by calling for the "Silent Majority" to rise again, a reference to a famous 1969 speech by then President Nixon.
"Audio Monitors" (2007-13) are two boxes that look like speakers on tripods, with a digital readout that counts the seconds, up to "4'33," a reference to Cage's famously silent work.
Welles staged the play as a period piece, and the movie was intended as an homage to silent cinema, with references to Mack Sennett's Keystone Cops and Harold Lloyd's "Safety Last" — and with the action sped up to resemble silent-film projection — but there are hints of Sergei Eisenstein throughout.
There is an unfortunate reference to the title in the climax of "Silent Waters" that the movie could also do without.
There is a haunting reference to what lies ahead for her: "A silent wing of your grave went over you" he writes of the moment she glances up towards the hilltops, to a future home.
It was a reference to if Iran ever attacked Israel, which is silent knowledge when it comes to U.S. foreign policy regardless of who is president.
A Silent calls Rory "the man who dies and dies again", a reference to the many times he appears to die.
As the 50-year-old actress swept into the grounds, Addie would turn to her granddaughter and say, 'Oh, here comes Norma', a reference to Swanson's role as the half-insane former silent star in Billy Wilder's film.
