Word: polkaing
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...Year, and Best New Artist). Members are, however, encouraged to vote only in areas where they feel qualified. "I'll vote in pop and rock categories," says songwriter Diane Warren (who wrote Milli Vanilli's Blame It on the Rain). "But when it comes to the Best Polka Song category, I don't vote in that...
Joining Jewett on the ever-popular Ad Board is Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Epps is easily recognizable by his polka-dot bow ties, seersucker suits, funny accent and umbrella with a carved duck's head on the handle (really). He's also one of Harvard's few Black administrators...
...lively nonfiction, Saturday Night (Knopf; 258 pages; $19.95). Ranging around the U.S., she watches people spend and squander their leisure hours. In Elkhart, Ind., folks drive slowly up and down Main Street. In Los Angeles airheads make the club scene. In Baltimore an octogenarian goes to her weekly polka dance; she has not missed one in nearly 30 years. A Manhattan socialite lends credence to the belief that the wrong people have money: "I'm always out in the country riding my horse and so forth on the weekends, and even if I weren't I can't imagine...
...backup bands of Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel. Next the city fathers of Detroit; Skokie, Ill.; and St. Paul will succumb and proclaim the accordion their official designated hitter. These cities are unaware that it is the convergence of hundreds of accordion players pumping out The Beer Barrel Polka in unison that depletes the ozone layer. The Red Cross is looking into this...
Maybe you think I'm noticing things that aren't there. Maybe you think I also saw Nicolae Ceaucescu and Samuel Beckett dancing a polka in the stacks of Widener last night. You're wrong. I know what I noticed. People were not very enthusiastic about their vacations this year. That's a fact...