Indeed, she pays specific homage to the shades whose style and concerns suffuse her prose.
There are hints of the Carry Ons, Blackadder and especially Python, with one gag that must surely be a specific homage to Holy Grail.
In a sense, all of his sewn work is an indirect tribute to her, though she is also the subject of a specific homage.
Yet the enthusiasm, impudence and heat that infuse much of Mr. Friedman's music (the show pays specific homage to the emo band Dashboard Confessional) feels as real as the loopy comedy.
The choreographer Nejla Y. Yatkin, a native of that city, offered her own site-specific homage, "Dancing With the Berlin Wall," as part of Performing Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe, a festival in New York.
Blair denied this specific wording.
Not this specific situation.
Steve Smith, a classical music critic for The New York Times and prime Sabbathologist, talks with the host Ben Ratliff about the power and meaning of Sabbath 1.0, the new record's specific self-homages and possible subtexts, and theorizes about its title.
The timeliness of Parlá's work is acutely specific, those homages to a forbidden island country, the complexities of access, the questions of identity.
