* Mark Gatiss's second Lucifer Box novel The Devil in Ambers main villain is a thinly-veiled version of Mosley named Olympus Mons.

Highlights of the strip's final decades include " Boomchik " ( 1961 ), in which America's international prestige is saved by Mammy Yokum, " Daisy Mae Steps Out " ( 1966 ), a female-empowering tale of Daisy's brazenly audacious “ homewrecker gland ," " The Lips of Marcia Perkins " ( 1967 ), a satirical, thinly-veiled commentary on venereal disease and public health warnings, " Ignoble Savages " ( 1968 ), in which the Mob takes over Harvard, and " Corporal Crock " ( 1973 ), in which Bullmoose reveals his reactionary cartoon role model, in a tale of obsession and the fanatical world of comic book collecting.

Aside from his thinly-veiled appearance in Robert Bloch's " The Shambler from the Stars ", Lovecraft continues to be used as a character in supernatural fiction.

", Bat-Mite attempts to get the show cancelled and introduces a thinly-veiled analogy to Scrappy in Punchichi, the nephew of Ace the Bat-Hound.

He is especially critical of George Michael's girlfriend, Ann, often forgetting her name, and frequently referring to her as any number of random, only loosely appropriate monikers, including " Egg ", " Bland ", " Plant ", " Yam ", and ( with thinly-veiled disappointment ) " Her?

Despite leaving the team, Cissie remains close friends with her teammates and eventually reconciles with her mother, who convinces her daughter to try out for the " Summer Games " in Sydney ( a thinly-veiled reference to the 2000 Summer Olympics, due to DC not being an " official partner " of the Games ).

The station's owner was again played by Deayton, though the character name was changed from Sir Norman Tonsil to Sir Kenneth Yellowhammer for the TV series, to serve as one of the show's thinly-veiled references to Sky TV.

* One of Ellis ' other titles, Planetary, features a character in its seventh issue named Jack Carter, who is a ( very ) thinly-veiled pastiche of John Constantine, being essentially identical in appearance, role, abilities and diction.

Trained in the rowdier juke joints of the 1920s, many of Bogan's songs, most of which she wrote herself, have thinly-veiled humorous sexual references.

In 1927, she started writing the trilogy Romiopoules ( Young Greek Girls ), a thinly-veiled autobiography, which she did not finish until 1939.

In chapter 12, she mentions one of her novels ( actually a thinly-veiled reference to Christie's own Death in the Clouds ) in which she had made a blowpipe one foot long, instead of six.

In the manga, Tomie's attitude towards other women seems to range between thinly-veiled hostility and outright murderous rage ( unless she stands to profit from them ), while the film incarnation is known to seduce women as well as men.

1956 saw the debut of the Bald Iggle, considered by some Abner enthusiasts to be the creative high point of the strip, as well as Mammy's revelatory encounter with the " Square Eyes " Family — Capp ’ s thinly-veiled appeal for racial tolerance.

Perceiving the Selenites ' battle against the Szerns as a thinly-veiled allegory of the Polish people's struggle with totalitarianism, Wilhelmi shut down the filming, which was 80 % complete and ordered all materials destroyed.

The film's structure is often compared to Federico Fellini's 8½, another thinly-veiled autobiographical film with fantastical elements.

AM Top 40 radio, in particular, became wary of a group that had scored a hit with a song that contained thinly-veiled drug references and whose singles were often deemed too controversial, so Jefferson Airplane never again enjoyed the kind of widespread radio support they would have needed to score more Top Ten hits.

Aiming to establish a commission with the power to compensate victims and pardon perpetrators of the 2000 coup, the legislation has been branded by opponents as a thinly-veiled legal mechanism for freeing supporters of the present government, who have been convicted and imprisoned on coup-related charges.

The question was a thinly-veiled reference to the close working relationship, well known in Texas, to have existed between Republican Bush and Democrat Bullock ; the reporter apparently was asking whether Bush would be capable of forging a similar bipartisan relationship with the members of the new Democratic legislative majority in the U. S. Congress.

Some see it as a thinly-veiled criticism of the blind belief associated with religion.

This didn't stop Annie from being perceived as snobbish by the residents, with her true feelings thinly-veiled beneath her friendly landlady persona.

* Princess: A girl in a thinly-veiled Snow White costume who is sleeping her way to the top of HappyPlace.

The thinly-veiled boss was understood to be Ham Fisher.

His novels in fact contained thinly-veiled, disconcerting ( at least to the subjects ) portraits of some of his friends ( Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Pound in particular ), the friendship not always surviving.

Making a thinly-veiled criticism of Brook in the process, Alexander praised the fact that there were " no attempts at sensationalism, no efforts to ' modernise ' Shakespeare by introducing Freudian themes, Existentialist ideas, eroticism, or sexual perversion.

Many of these gags were thinly-veiled allusions to his homosexuality.

Such alumni have been known to write characters as students of Tufts or a thinly-veiled substitute, such as the title characters of Two Guys and a Girl and the lead character of Christopher Golden's Body of Evidence mystery novels.

For example, in the novels set in the Cambridge college ( a thinly-veiled Christ's ), a small, disparate group of men is typically required to reach a collective decision on an important subject.

* " These Are the Rules " a YA novel by Paul Many ( Random House, 1998 ) is set in " White Sand Lake "-- a thinly-veiled reference to Lake Ronkonkoma -- and includes the Indian legend as a plot device.

Many have argued that Taylor, who was one of the leaders of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, developed his " Railway Thesis " to serve as a thinly-veiled admonitory allegory for the nuclear arms race.

Huxley's roman à clef, Crome Yellow depicts the life at a thinly-veiled Garsington.

The " popeta " was actually a thinly-veiled Puerto Rican slang reference to the glans penis.

By this time, the popularity of Phoenix had grown huge ; people loved their songs not only for what they were, but also because they contained thinly-veiled allusions to the Communist regime.

The fable-like story was really a thinly-veiled appeal for racial tolerance.

The fragment of a new novel she had been working on in her last years has been twice completed by recent authors, the more famous version being Emma Brown: A Novel from the Unfinished Manuscript by Charlotte Brontë by Clare Boylan in 2003.

The book has been adapted for film and television a number of times, including a 1981 serial for TV directed by Rodney Bennett ; a 1995 movie adapted by Emma Thompson and directed by Ang Lee ; a version in Tamil called Kandukondain Kandukondain, released in 2000 ; and a 2008 TV series on BBC adapted by Andrew Davies and directed by John Alexander.

After her aforementioned initial appearance, the Marvel Comics version of Firestar debuted in the pages of Uncanny X-Men # 193 as part of Emma Frost's Hellions team.

Inside what appears to be the White Hot Room or possibly just Emma's own mind, a woman resembling Jean Grey appears to Emma and helps her break free of Regan's influence with what appears to be a miniature version of the Phoenix energy raptor, thus letting her assist Logan, who has been robbed of a lock of Jean's hair that was in his possession.

Emma Hill by Ford Madox Brown ( 1853 ), a woman wearing a later version of the poke bonnet.

At a dance between Professor X's and Emma Frost's orphanages, Angel teams up with kid versions of Wolverine and Colossus to take on the kid version of Deadpool ( named Kidpool )

2003 recordingThree years later, lyricist Richard Maltby, Jr. was brought in to help create an Americanised version of Tell Me on a Sunday for Broadway, with Bernadette Peters as ' the girl ', now renamed as Emma.

Other new characters in this revamped version were Sidney Livingstone as Bert Daley, Arthur's gullible, over-trusting brother ( and Ray's father ), who views Arthur as a successful businessman and not a con-man and entrusts Ray into his care ; Bert's wife and Ray's mum, Doreen ( Lill Roughley ); and Ray's recurring girlfriend Gloria ( Emma Cunningham ), who is frustrated with Ray being torn between her and Arthur's lackey.

* An interactive version of Emma Lazarus ' “ The New Colossus ,” annotated by Esther Schor, the author of the biography, Emma Lazarus.

Voice actors who have contributed to the original British version include Neil Morrissey, Rob Rackstraw, Kate Harbour, Rupert Degas, Colin McFarlane, Maria Darling, Emma Tate, Richard Briers, June Whitfield, Richard Herman, and Wayne Forester.

In 2009, Mattel and Nickelodeon introduced a preteen version of Dora, with four friends named Naiya, Kate, Emma, and Alana, who call themselves the Explorer Girls.

This version of the Hellfire Club is led by Sebastian Shaw ( Kevin Bacon ) and Emma Frost ( January Jones ), with Azazel ( Jason Flemyng ), Riptide ( Álex González ) and Angel Salvadore ( Zoë Kravitz ) as the main other members.

Four Sobule compositions or co-compositions appear on the series star's debut album, Unfabulous and More: Emma Roberts: a Roberts cover version of " Mexican Wrestler " from Sobule's album Pink Pearl ; " Punch Rocker " and " 94 Weeks ( Metal Mouth Freak )," both written by Sobule for Roberts ' character to " compose " on the program ; and " New Shoes ," a track co-written by Sobule with Unfabulous series creator Sue Rose.

In July 2009, historian Kate Williams reported on BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House that she is working with Clarkson to develop a musical version of Williams ' biography England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton.

This includes missions set in the Big Shell area from the Plant chapter, featuring characters such as Fatman, Emma, Vamp and Solidus Snake, as well as an alternate version of the Tanker chapter, which replaces Olga Gurlukovich with Meryl Silverburgh ( from Metal Gear Solid ) as the boss.

During this run, he introduced a new version of Xorn, showcase the fallout from Cyclops and Emma Frost beginning a relationship following the death of Jean Grey, as well as introduce a new version of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

As a nod to the risque nature of the mainstream White Queen and the Hellfire Club, this version of Emma has a bondage fetish, relishing being tied up during a prison break and telling her captor " tighter please ".

This version of Emma Frost is pacifistic, able to develop a diamond skin, non-telepathic, and until recently dressed much more conservatively than her mainstream counterpart.

A teenaged version of Emma appears as Sebastian Shaw's girlfriend and one of the students at the Worthington Academy, a school for mutants shown in the X-Campus limited series.

* Emma also appears as a major character in the twelve-episode X-Men anime ( part of the Marvel Anime ) series, voiced by Kaori Yamagata in the Japanese version and by Ali Hillis in the English Dub.

Following the appearance of the character in X-Men: First Class, a film set years before the events of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, this version is no longer considered Emma Frost within the film series canon.