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Examples
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Think a Vegas routine for a music-box ballerina and her partner.
Moving to the Music of the Duke Robert Greskovic 2011
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She filled her day with music-box tunes and actually wore rose-tinted glasses because she hated “the dull colors, the way things faded, the annoying dark clouds that poked their bruised faces in our way.”
Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011
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Over a six-pack and a bottle of red wine, Peter and Neal discuss their most pressing case: catching Vincent Adler Andrew McCarthy, the man behind Kate's death, the music-box mystery and Mozzie's shooting.
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She filled her day with music-box tunes and actually wore rose-tinted glasses because she hated “the dull colors, the way things faded, the annoying dark clouds that poked their bruised faces in our way.”
Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011
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She filled her day with music-box tunes and actually wore rose-tinted glasses because she hated “the dull colors, the way things faded, the annoying dark clouds that poked their bruised faces in our way.”
Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011
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At the end of last week's episode, we learned that the man behind Kate's murder and the music-box intrigue is Neal's mentor in crime played by Andrew McCarthy — which sends Neal back down memory lane for an elaborate flashback episode.
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Factor to set a price, he coolly placed it at five hundred blankets, ten guns, fifty pounds of tobacco, twenty scarlet cloths, ten bottles of rum, a music-box, and lastly the good-will and best offices of the Factor, with a place by his fire.
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She filled her day with music-box tunes and actually wore rose-tinted glasses because she hated “the dull colors, the way things faded, the annoying dark clouds that poked their bruised faces in our way.”
Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011
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He turns the large metal key on a Pygmalion-style music-box lady, and she comes to life, but he doesn't really notice because he is too busy doing fey Michael Jackson moves with a weird Iron Man-meets-9 prosthetic hand.
Liz Spikol: Steampunkers, Rise Up: Justin Bieber Is Co-Opting Your Christmas Liz Spikol 2011
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Not that it lacks more straightforward ways of hitting the dancefloor sweet spot: Flashy Flashy is asweetly irresistible singspiel duet between Allien and a pitched-down version of herself, while on highlights Our Utopie and Ever, she allies music-box tinkles to big, banging techno grooves tosuperb effect.
Ellen Allien: Dust 2010
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