Word: polkas
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...uses art nouveau and art déco designs, executed in gold leaf, pastels and bright red polka dots...
...might get a chance to hear “The Pennsylvania Polka” playing while you walk to the game. Ever see Groundhog Day with Bill Murray? The accordian-led Pennsylvania polka plays throughout the movie as Murray lives the same day over and over again in Punxsutawney, Pa. The song’s really catchy, and if I know my Pennsylvanians correctly—and I think I do—someone will surely be playing it and singing along at Penn. “Strike up the music, the band has begun. The Pennsylvania Polka...
...vocals, usually demure or arresting, harsh or sweetly harmonized, were frustratingly muffled by technical maladjustments. The women were unfazed: Tucker, coy and roaring in pink polka dots and fishnets; Weiss, vigilant with the beat; Brownstein, lean and robust, expertly brandishing her guitar...
...central Asian states where the U.S. now has bases - in addition to three in Afghanistan, there are about a dozen U.S. military outposts (the Pentagon isn't eager to detail its presence in the region) polka-dotting Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - are pleased by Washington's interest. It shows they are truly independent of Russia, and the money's not bad, either (this base alone pumps an estimated nearly $1 million a week into the anemic local economy...
With his mop of frizzy hair, thick eyeglasses, and shiny, polka-dotted shirts, Lawrence Lee bears a striking resemblance to Austin Powers in The Spy Who Shagged Me. He prefers to think of himself as "the guy behind James Bond, 007." His ramshackle office in a low-rent district of Taipei is lined floor to ceiling with spy gadgetry: neckties fitted with lenses, cameras disguised as Bibles, infrared goggles. If you are lucky, he will show you his small library of Japanese manuals with detailed instructions on how to secretly film your neighbor's underpants...