Hillary Clinton also used it to a powerful effect during the final moments of one debate, when she referenced a past incident where Trump had made sexist and disparaging comments about a former Miss Universe contestant.
The great irony of her speech came when she referenced second chances for convicts stating, "... in my faith we believe in second chances, in America we believe in second chances.
Poehler earned one of the night's biggest laughs when she referenced director Kathryn Bigelow's marital history with this gem: "I haven't really been following the controversy over 'Zero Dark Thirty,'" she said, "but when it comes to torture I trust the lady who spent three years married to James Cameron".
No one has been more outspoken in her admiration for his project than surging 2016 hopeful Carly Fiorina, although she got some of the facts wrong when she referenced "a fully formed fetus on the table, with its heart beating, its legs kicking".
She said it had been "a very long time" since she'd used the N-word, and it probably came at a time when she was referencing "a conversation between blacks".
Sometimes she heard the sound of a page being ripped out and folded into a tight packet, and when she cross-referenced her mutilated catalogue with the one online she saw that hers was now missing an image of a picnic basket or an industrial-style upholstered coffee table with wheels.
When she made reference to the war in Iraq, she was interrupted by a spectator, Sue Niederer, who shouted, "Why don't your children serve?" Mr. Bush's supporters quickly surrounded Ms. Niederer, who wore a shirt bearing a photo of her son, Seth Dvorin, an Army lieutenant killed in Iraq in February, and the words "President Bush, You Killed My Son".
Remember when she made reference to Bentham's panopticon last week?
One young woman went so far as to say, "I think I'm killing my child," when she was referencing her deep belief that the illness that struck her son must have heard her.
She was going through papers for research on Olivier's film version of Richard III in the manuscripts reading room at the British Library when she came across references to Macbeth scripts.
When she makes a reference to a choreographer like the German expressionist Mary Wigman, she is exploring her own lineage; Ms. Woodbury, her teacher, studied with Wigman.
