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  • 'Polacca' is a lurching punchdrunk romp through African funk.

    NME Features 2009

  • And that was just yesterday's monologue I don't have a subscription because I wouldn't waste my time or money getting one; I do listen to him while traveling to Polacca twice a week mainly because it's such an isolated area that he's on the only station that comes in clearly.

    "It was on a blog, so I don't know if it's actually true..." Ann Althouse 2008

  • On the First Mesa we find Walpi, Sichomovi, and Hano, the latter not Hopi but a Tewa village built about 1700 by immigrants from the Rio Grande Valley, and at the foot of this mesa the modern village of Polacca with its government school and trading post.

    The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi Hattie Greene Lockett 1921

  • Polacca, is a Tewa who lived in Hano twenty years ago, when the writer first knew her, and continued to live there until a couple of years ago.

    The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi Hattie Greene Lockett 1921

  • Those harassing, exasperating gloomy thoughts (Tempo di Polacca) return.

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • There are several important arrangements, such as Schubert marches, Schubert's songs, "Rakoczy March," and a variety of arrangements for pianoforte and orchestra, including two concertos, the Weber Polacca in E, and the Schubert fantasia.

    A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874

  • Within the week they have spoken two vessels, both of which reported this same barque, or one answering her description: "_Polacca-masted, all sail set, ensign reversed_."

    The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Mayne Reid 1850

  • For they are now near enough the barque to see that she answers the description: "Polacca-masted -- all sail set -- ensign reversed -- Chilian."

    The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Mayne Reid 1850

  • Though the Third is called the "Polish" Symphony, the only Polish element comes in the fifth and final movement, marked Tempo di Polacca.

    NYT > Home Page By ANTHONY TOMMASINI 2011

  • Though the Third is called the "Polish" Symphony, the only Polish element comes in the fifth and final movement, marked Tempo di Polacca.

    NYT > Home Page By ANTHONY TOMMASINI 2011

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