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...What a thing to say. I had heard it a million times. But suddenly it had real weight. Real meaning. It was like a prayer, a promise, and an indecent proposal, all mashed together and sung to a catchy little tune: 'Can I get you something to drink? Tra-la-la! Tra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Story of Self-Induced Starvation | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...Stable Boy all to herself. She should be happy. “I am happy,” she said aloud, with a shaky vehemence. “Ecstatic!”Just then, the door to Frederick’s chambers opened and her husband came tra-la-la-ing down the hall, as slender and pale as a maiden. He saw Felicity and paused, his eyes filled with a sweetness that Felicity had never seen.“I hope you are enjoying your tryst with that nitwit of a biddy with her skirts hiked up about...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: THE STABLE BOY: Chapter 13 | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...Well, thank you! So, on your Web site, you pose naked with a champagne bottle covering your, um, “tra-la-la.” Do you ever worry that your grandmother will come across that and be shocked...

Author: By Samantha F. Drago, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Günther | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

...music, chosen by director Sniderman, also battles with some of the actors’ elegantly delivered soliloquies. It is hard to concentrate on a sorrowful speech when a woman is light-heartedly tra-la-la-ing in a foreign language in the background...

Author: By April B. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Troubling ‘Titus’ In the Ex | 12/10/2007 | See Source »

...commercials anymore, but those saccharine eHarmony ads featuring Natalie Cole tra-la-laing the blight-on-humanity song "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)" have been unavoidable the last couple of years. (At your peril, you can check one out here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is eHarmony Biased Against Gays? | 6/1/2007 | See Source »

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