The "permanently separated" remark is an obvious reference to a video the White House posted on its official Twitter account Wednesday.
His haircut becomes more sophisticated, an obvious reference to a 1960s aesthetic, channeling his musical selection from the Last Shadow Puppets album and the borderline excessive use of black turtlenecks and a bob haircut, as seen in With The Beatles.
"There's no question in my mind that the president's action was calculated to... shore up his base," Romney said, in what appears an obvious reference to an old racial stereotype, that welfare is a program for African Americans.
Mr. Lagerfeld's obvious reference was a famous photograph of Coco Chanel in a ruffled white collar, a motif he used throughout the collection.
The Magnetic Fields Stephin Merrittt is the obvious reference point, a comparison encouraged by Condon's sonorous vocals.
From the moment we boarded, all staff addressed us by name without obvious reference to a cheat sheet.
But on a website called Unsnobbycoffee.com it does assure customers that they will not need to learn a "second language" to order its drinks—an obvious reference to Starbucks' arcane terminology.Naming names can also get companies into trouble of a sort that cannot be dispensed with in a pizza oven.
We have people now who have found that warning about 'cyber war' has become an unlikely career path"—an obvious reference to McConnell and Clarke.
President Obama quipped the other night that he is so close to Vice President Biden that they can't buy a pizza in Indiana--an obvious reference to Indiana's religious freedom law permitting businesses in the state to refuse goods and services to gays on grounds of religious scruple.
In fact, "High Fidelity," which was made into a movie starring John Cusack, is sort of PREX's evil twin and bête noire, the obvious reference point for a place full of obscure music, peopled by a virtually all-male staff of music wonks who can debate the fine points of the Lehigh Valley punk scene.
