Fittingly, the gaming giant's American president Reggie Fils-Aimé references its longtime executives and creative forces with great reverence, quoting predecessors several times over the course of our half-hour-long conversation ahead of the launch of Super Mario Odyssey.
That last reference point, a longtime preoccupation of Mr. Zorn, occasionally registered as a howling presence.
Brzezinski herself responded by posting a picture of a Cheerios box that featured the words "Made for Little Hands" — a snickering reference to a longtime Trump insecurity.
Every minute or so, it seemed as if the shows were throwing up a neon sign that said, "Reference Understandable by Longtime Fans Only; Others Should Turn Back Here".
But when the network later produced an e-mail message, which Mr. Doyne had sent to a longtime friend and which made reference to such a mole, Mr. Doyne amended his account.
Arizona Coach Andy Lopez, who is trying to join Augie Garrido of Cal State-Fullerton and Texas as the only to coaches to win national championships with multiple universities — Lopez's first came at Pepperdine in 1992 — suggested his own clever name for the series, a reference to his longtime friend and colleague Ray Tanner, the South Carolina coach.
He also urged India to change its own regulations regarding "nuclear liability legislation," a reference to a longtime call by Washington for India to change its laws to make it easier for American companies to develop civilian nuclear reactors in India.
To hear Chief Executive Steven Ballmer tell it, Microsoft is "Bill's company," a reference to his longtime partner, Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates.
It has plenty of references to the Yankees' longtime dominance in the rivalry.
"New York always has had a profound influence on sports writing," Jerome Holtzman, the longtime Chicago baseball writer, said in reference to the Shecter-Duren story.
"What messed him up were his personal life and a friend named Johnnie Walker," Ruy Castro, a Brazilian writer, said in reference to Mr. Powell's longtime fondness for whiskey.
