Word: polkas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eleven years later, thousands of used shoes are piled by the sidewalk and hanging in the trees--along with rusty car hoods and tires strewn across a vacant lot and rows and rows of discarded vacuum cleaners, stuffed animals and broken dolls. Heidelberg Street is also festooned in polka dots. "I'm going to polka-dot this whole city," proclaims Guyton, 41, who says the dots commemorate his late grandfather's love of jelly beans...
...confused by what is art and what isn't on Heidelberg Street that they have stopped picking up there. And there's concern that the heaps of stuff are becoming a breeding ground for rodents. "Really, the problem has exploded this year because Tyree has put his polka dots everywhere," says Angela Brown Wilson, executive assistant to Detroit's Mayor Dennis Archer...
...puffs of rifle smoke, they are like a skewed version of Kate Greenaway's Victorian illustrations. The pale, blooming color is rarely less than inventive, and it can break out into a startling decorative richness--as in Two Spangled Blengins, showing a pair of dragons with striped and polka-dotted wings hovering protectively around a cutout of a little girl...
...World War II. Some dancers, particularly Pollyana Ribeiro in "Rum and Coca-Cola" and Paul Thrussell in "Oh Johnny," win lauds for balancing spirited charm with grace and elegance. Unfortunately, many of the other performers do not seem to know now to have fun. In the supposedly-lively "Pennsylvania Polka," dancers Jennifer Gelfand and Carlos Ivan Santos look uncomfortable and embarrassed to be doing the polka between melodramatic air-kisses on-stage...
...That's what I tried to tell the residents of Buffalo after the Bills kept losing the Super Bowl. 'You have one of the two top teams,' I said. 'Not to speak of Poles who've been snowed on for a while and can still feel like doing the polka. And the famous Buffalo chicken wings...