Word: referring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They seemed to have no difficulty adapting their newspaper's vapid and juvenile writing style into book form. They incessantly refer to the Woodstock Generation as if it were a single organism, with all its parts reacting the same way to events--much as USA Today refers...
...authors repeatedly refer to something called The Force, which they never really explain, but seems to have something to do with the karma of those who lived the '60s. Casale and Lerman have an annoying habit of capitalizing Things They Think Are Cute And Important...
When David Henry Hwang was a student at Stanford University, he and fellow residents of the "Asian-American theme dorm" used to refer derisively to any female peer who seemed overly deferential, too traditionally feminine, as "doing a Butterfly." Hwang, for one, had no actual complaint against Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly. In fact, he had never seen or even heard it. But what he had gleaned of the plot -- about a Japanese girl who kills herself for love of a faithless American sailor -- summed up for him many of the stereotypes Westerners imposed on Orientals...
...refer to their house as my home. Now, they're coming back, and I will have to live in a six-bedroom apartment in Harvard Square, with neither air conditioning nor privacy...
...decide to call the entire cycle of novels The Red Wheel, and why do you refer to each different stage in the narrative as a "knot" ((uzel in Russian...