Word: referring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inspect the appliances. There were some interesting things, but there were also a number of things which seemed purely for show and of no use. Once I'd commented on this I had swallowed the hook and was caught in a lengthy conversation with Nixon which newsmen would refer to for years to come as characterizing Soviet-American relations...
...Johns and Rauschenberg became instant household names, not counting their swarm of epigones. "What we have with the pop artists," wrote the English critic Lawrence Alloway, "is a situation in which success has been combined with misunderstanding." He had coined the term pop art, in England in 1957, "to refer approvingly to the product of the mass media." Appropriately, Alloway, whose fascination with mass culture as anthropology long predates the movement that he christened, has now organized a pop retrospective at Manhattan's Whitney Museum...
...said the trustees could not make immediate decisions, but that they would refer the demands to appropriate committees...
Rosovsky said yesterday that it was unfair to refer to the original document as it had been reworked and amended and was not directly relevant to the current situation...
...title of this quite remarkable French film assumes inflections of meaning as the weights and balances of the relationships shift. It appears at first to refer separately to each of Alexandre's women. The whore would be the desperately promiscuous nurse. The mother appears to be the severe Marie, whose bursts of passion and stern, sometimes hysterical anger draw Alexandre to her. It becomes clear after a time, though, that both Veronika and Marie share the same qualities. They are, in fact, reciprocals of each other, embodiments of the masculine ideal of the female, mother and whore at once...