Word: referents
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...performance-enhancing drugs; of an apparent drug overdose; in Rimini, Italy. The Italian, who last year checked himself into a clinic in Teolo that specializes in treating depression and drug addiction, wasn't popular with many of his fellow racers but was beloved by fans. Though he liked to refer to himself as il Pirata (the Pirate)?he wore a single gold earring and had a shaved head?fans affectionately called him Dumbo or Elefantino, for his big ears. A note found in his hotel room near his sprawled, half-naked corpse read, "No one has been able to understand...
...paradigm by emphasizing teamwork inspired less by Timbaland and Missy than Miles and Coltrane. “We’ve definitely drawn an element of the whole free jazz kind of approach—improvisation, duets, back and forth soloing,” Eyedea says. He likes to refer to Abilities not merely as a turntablist but “lead guitar player.” On the new record, “there’s stuff that has never been done before between an emcee...
Moran is halfway through his eight-hour shift driving the “door to door van.” While students refer to it as “the shuttle,” it’s not to be confused with that other shuttle—the one that goes to un-exotic places like the Science Center, or, say, Dunster...
...guys just aren't all that complicated. Such a man is David, the 27-year-old protagonist of Scott Mebus' Booty Nomad (Miramax Books; 392 pages). David is a TV producer struggling to bounce back from a horrific breakup with a woman he can bring himself to refer to only as the Eater of Souls. Like Tom, David gets plastered, visits a strip club, hits on his female friends and longs for an unattainable lady (whom he refers to as "the Goddess"). It's not that he and his friends aren't laddishly funny--their handy rule for movies...
...Year of Living Erroneously" [Dec. 29-Jan. 5], Andrew Sullivan wrote that in 2003, "The more sure of things we were, the more sharply our reality got checked." But was the "we" supposed to refer to average people? As Sullivan's examples point out, it was often the press that reported information that was supposedly accurate but in fact wasn't. Average consumers of news were not living erroneously. We were just watching the media's standards sink lower, into more uncharted depths. JOHN STUVER Burbank, Calif...