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...into a foot-stomping, speedy accordion romp, the reindeer roll call gets cheekily politicized, with “Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon” and “Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton” joining the ranks of Santa’s better-known little helpers, Dasher, Prancer, and Vixen. Heading down under on “Christmas Island,” he pays tribute to both Jimmy Buffett and the Andrews’ Sisters renditions of the twangy ditty, with female singers cooing their answer to Dylan’s request to “stay up late...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bob Dylan | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

Organizers said they had raised slightly more than $5 milhon, that the deficit had been erased, that 616 Southern pilgrims were Paris bound, and that the time had come to "Laissez les bans temps rouler!" Harold Dejan's Olympia brass band, led by a prancer in a bowler and spats, bugled the revelers aboard two 747s and off they went, a "cou rouge" delegation if ever there was one, as one self-professed redneck exalted. They were indeed ready to let the good times roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letting the Good Times Roll | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...University in San Antonio, so he had to learn big-time ball the hard way - against the pros. Says Coach Harris: "Paultz and Malone made Reid a tougher guy. Here's a player who had the body and the ability, but he was a fancy dancer and prancer. They made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: What's Green and Goes Swish? | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

Pour the sack and pop the bubbly Slosh the Chivas and slosh it doubly. On Dancer, on Prancer, on Donner, on Blitzen...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: The New Gotha Programme | 12/11/1975 | See Source »

...Lodges had a black car and a band in front, then a six-by-eight foot silk banner before a procession of four or five columns. The banners were embroidered with exotic scenes; many showed Prince William, in different hues, shapes, and sizes, marching to victory atop his white prancer. Biblical scenes like "Jacob's Dream" or "The Parting of the Red Sea" were common and there were a few uncommon banners like one showing "The Storming of Jaffa," a bizarre scene with British soldiers climbing the city's walls and staring into the suspended smoke of Turkish muskets...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Britain, Orangeism: Pieces of the Ulster Puzzle | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

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