Mr. Gore's hit parade of tested buzz words and phrases -- "middle class" (10 mentions), "wealthiest 1percentt" (10), "lockbox" (7) -- was nearly matched by Mr. Bush's Pavlovian references to bringing "Republicans and Democrats" together (9) and "fuzzy" math (4).
The blue bit of Mr Brown's speech could only have come from the Tories - all those references to bringing back matron, cracking down on drug-pushing immigrants and standing up for Britain.
If you read this job description carefully — or just skim it for that matter — you'll find a reference to bringing a connected experience through the Zune service spanning the Zune, Xbox, PC and mobiles.
You'll Be Alright, for instance, reads in the bright colors, "Niggas get shot everyday, B". "There are clear art references and popular culture references in order to bring the viewer in for a closer examination," explains the artist.
Such references might seem to bring us closer to the artist, but perhaps they only dampen the estrangement Ofili provokes us to feel.
Although it deals primarily in recollections of 30-year-old events and their lingering effects, "Angry Skies" deliberately references the movement to bring surviving Khmer Rouge leaders to justice at an international tribunal.
If you see opportunities to expand and make more current references, do it to bring everything together.
On Friday, that sentiment was expressed by the anti-Islam protesters, who made frequent references to events brought on by the rise of the self-proclaimed Islamic State including American beheadings and deadly violence in Paris over the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's caricature portrayal of Muhammad.
As a single reference work designed to bring Baring-Gould's original annotated edition up to date, The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes seems unlikely to be superseded for some time.
