He is to step down as chief conductor of the Berlin Phil in 2018, signing off with a typically sharp reference to Liverpool: "will you still need me when I'm 64?".
Jared Leto's remarks in the first category that was announced, Best Supporting Actor, got the inconvenience of the evening's sharpest reference to troubles in the world out of the way quickly.
(The creation of "S'nuff" is a brilliant entry in Schumer's caustic catalogue of the ambient and long-unchallenged misogyny of the mass media and it delivers a sharp kick with a reference to the male executives who are Dianna's bosses).
(The creation of "S'nuff" is a brilliant entry in Schumer's caustic catalogue of the ambient and long-unchallenged misogyny of the mass media — and it delivers a sharp kick with a reference to the male executives who are Dianna's bosses).
Post-debate commentary would likely have noted this as an implicit reference to the sharp ideological divide on the Supreme Court and the fact that it was the Court's five conservative justices who voted against Lilly Ledbetter.
The name, a Hausa commandment, means "straighten your rows," a reference to the razor-sharp lines formed by Muslims as they line up to pray and a metaphor for the orderliness required in everyday life by the Koran.
This was a reference to The Sun's sharp circulation decline on Merseyside over its controversial coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, in which 96 Liverpool football fans died.
An outspoken critic of the imposition of tuition fees on college students, Marquand reserves his sharpest criticism for "Browne's barbarism" – a reference to the report of Lord Browne preceding the coalition government's decision to reform higher education funding.
The sharp-witted, problem-solving Graysmith identifies this as a reference to the classic 1932 movie of that title in which a mad, rich recluse lures people to his remote island to be hunted for sport.
But it takes a sharp eye to spot Solzhenitsyn in the occasional reference to "Sasha", the reconnaissance battery commander.
A reference to the bankers?
