"I want to re-knight Sir Paul for those next-level dad jeans," tweeted Julieanne Smolinski, 29, a New York writer, in reference to Sir Paul's crisp, pre-faded dungarees, which looked like Gap deadstock from 1991.
A letter writer, in reference to the insistence of Kathleen Rice, Nassau's district attorney, on having only full-time employees, disparages employers who "bend over backward" to accommodate the "life-style choice" of having a child ("New Mothers on the Payroll," July 16).
"Is Lena Dunham too privileged to fail?" asked a Daily Beast writer, in reference to does it even matter at this point?
"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.
As a quick aside, I note that the great writer Jonathan Lethem, in reference to Dickens' Dombey and Son, has encouraged the reader to imagine Dickens' characters as though they were animals – "clever, eccentric badgers", wily foxes and cats – and all in Victorian costume.
Speaking about the democratic nature of the vaudeville performance circuit, Vaudeville's writer and executive producer said in reference to Ali that the film "embraced everything from Caruso to a guy who threw up".
When the French do finally start using the word, in the early nineteenth century, it's solely in reference to English writers who've taken up the banner, and more specifically to those who write for magazines and newspapers.
The second Toronto Sun cover was "What the Fuck" (although the cowardly headline writers bleeped out the last word) in reference to Gurratan Singh, the brother of federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, holding a sign in 2006 that said, "Fuck the Police".
Yoshimura included conflicting reports from witnesses about how the incident took place, which the writer described as a "Rashomon thing", in reference to the 1950 Japanese film in which several characters offer differing descriptions of the same murder.
