1.   An American abroad can feel like a prisoner in a linguistic funhouse, with familiar words disfigured by foreign accents and convoluted grammar and half-felt cultural references.

2.   And cultural references fly off her tongue at a dizzying rate, sometimes unnecessarily so.

3.   And it relies on the kind of contemporary cultural references on which television thrives.

4.   At the same time, they are being exposed to openly gay relationships, unfamiliar cultural references and complex family issues.

5.   But Lee gives the device a visual dimension that places Newton in a maelstrom of cultural reference points.

6.   Cultural references come and go.

7.   Despite its specific cultural references, anyone can relate to its basic message, LeBow said.

8.   Even the cultural reference points have changed.

9.   From pastries shaped like French philosophers to a hilarious send-up of Baudelaire, Zero Zero is filled with winking cultural references children may not catch.

10.   His cultural references were Dante and Manzoni, even Melville and Conrad, rather than Jewish lore, with which he was altogether unfamiliar.