Not exact matches
Celebrated for his renaissance - like intelligence, Lagerfeld's aesthetic is imbued
with cultural and historical
reference points.
Audiences familiar
with Key and Peele's pop -
cultural savvy will be unsurprised by the various on - screen allusions to crime thrillers like «Heat» and «New Jack City,» plus throwaway comic
references to «Fargo,» «The Shining,» «Crimson Tide» and «
Point Break» (all of which figure into one of the movie's better visual gags).
With first radio and then television, both passive receivers, becoming ubiquitous presences in people's homes, culture was united in the limited number of options available, and thus coalesced around a comparatively small number of widely shared
cultural reference points.
Since his early days
with «Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story» and «Safe,» Haynes has developed sophisticated narratives out of existing
cultural reference points.
While it's hard to tell where the homage ends and genuine
cultural absorption begins
with the Japanese and their (perfectly reasonable) obsession
with Mobile Suit Gundam, I do find the use of Gundam as a
reference point interesting, because much as the mobile suit's use in Gundam is to provide a vehicle that can operate equally well in space, under Earth's gravity, and in the artificial «gravity» of O'Neill cylinders, Vanquish is taking the commonly used Western term «space marine» quite literally, as Vanquish's power armor seems to be designed both as a spacesuit and as body armor, used to infiltrate a structure floating in space.
Either as a pop
cultural reference point or the conceptual link between the speculative practices of contemporary art and science fiction, this trend has seen dozens, if not hundreds, of international and Australian artists creating sci - fi - inflected pieces,
with exhibitions around the world surveying their work.
But for Maria Brito, the similarities became apparent after her research into the reasons why Classical Greece became such a
reference point for Western civilisation: «Ancient Greece was, in many ways, similar to what New York is nowadays: an art - centric place filled
with curious thinkers, creative artists, and centres for
cultural advancement propelled by a cosmopolitan view of the world.»
Together
with these collective
points of
reference, The Puppet Show poses a larger
cultural question: why do puppets matter now?
I
point to that comment thread because it contains many long comments
with references to positive results bias and the deep
cultural dysfunction of the scientific community.
On this
point, the court declined to admit the evidence and further held that: «[i] t would be inconsistent
with the purpose of the Statute of Frauds and
with the valid public policy need for certainty in real property transactions to imply a term or condition into the Deed of Gift based on a general
cultural norm or tradition and the mere
reference to the property in question under the heading «dowry» in the marriage contract.»