I know that if I reference the latest political scandal in Taiwan -- NO ONE will get it.
(That's the one detail I couldn't confirm in the books I referenced, if standing in the aisle of the Strand and pouring over a number of Nixon biographies counts as reference work).
"If I'm specifically referencing an Enron memo or a Taliban story that people might not be familiar with, there's only so much information that I can throw in there," he said.
Lets us say that a theory of explanation contains "pragmatic" elements if (i) those elements require irreducible reference to facts about the interests, beliefs or other features of the psychology of those providing or receiving the explanation and/or (ii) irreducible reference to the "context" in which the explanation occurs.
If I make a reference to Nikita Khrushchev [the former leader of the Soviet Union] because I like the Sting song Russians, I'll get rid of it later because people will be like: "Who the hell is Khrushchev?" It's not my job to give history lessons.
"If I had no reference point, there could be some self-doubt right now," Paschal admits.
I said sure, I can draw anything if I have a reference.
But if I had to reference another performer that I've met in all of my entire years doing drag shows, I believe Brooklyn Heights, former Miss Continental, is an amazing performer, very committed.
But while not all of our predominant cultural references today are white, historically most of them have been, and a number still are, which is why if I made a reference to "Joan and Brock," my white, thirty-something colleague at the water cooler would probably have no idea what I was talking about.
He is constantly, if obliquely, referenced in her chat.
