As observant as she often is, Anna Sui has lighted on this idea, invoking it in a show bursting with references: to hip-hop, to India and to hot rodders.
This now classic work is already being turned to for answers in the present crisis, with universities and science minister David Willetts invoking it in a speech to Universities UK, and Liverpool Hope University recently holding a conference on the continuing relevance of the book.
But for generations, until Ms. Michaels invoked it in a radio broadcast, "Ms". lay largely dormant.
He invoked it in a new television advertisement released this weekend -- "Which Democrat has a specific plan to rebuild our economy and increase safety and security?" the announcer asks.
This was the core of the complaint some lawmakers made against Mr. Sessions on Tuesday: Internal executive branch information is not legally shielded from Congress by default; rather, the president chooses whether to invoke it in a particular instance.
Farrow first invoked it in a tweet to the editor of the Hollywood Reporter, to critique its interview with Allen: "Love you, Janice, but what's next, a Bill Cosby cover?" He repeated it in an article in the same publication, in which he condemned his father, the festival, the press and those stars who work with him.
It hasn't been exercised since 2001, when George W. Bush invoked it in an effort to protect the U.S. steel industry from Mexican and Canadian imports.
Mayor Edwin Lee invoked it in unveiling a pension-reform plan produced after months of working with the city's unions, elected officials, City Hall executives and the financier Warren Hellman (who is chairman of The Bay Citizen).
The Army Corps of Engineers, which issued the regulation in 1986, invoked it in 1994 to block a landfill project on an abandoned strip mine in northeastern Illinois.
There has always been something inherently reactionary in the idea that the rights of states should be privileged over the rights of their citizens, and it was depressing that so many on the left joined rightwing "realists" in invoking it as a reason to oppose the invasion of Iraq.
Newsweek's Jerusalem bureau chief, Dan Ephron, added, "Even as Israel zealously guards the memory of the genocide, many Israelis invoke it frivolously in a manner that can seem shocking to outsiders and might even be illegal in some countries," like Germany, where the public display of Nazi symbols remains banned by law.
