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  • Yet among rockers, Holly remains a singer-songwriter saint—a perky rockabilly muse whose pogo-stick voice, marshmallow melodies and twangy guitar are an early essence of the genre.

    A New Take on an Early Rock Icon Marc Myers 2011

  • The young men bounce up and down pogo-stick style while the older men wave their arms back and forth in the air, swooning as each man is chosen.

    The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010

  • And if Roky Roulette's first appearance, looking like KFC's Colonel Sanders, ends in a torrent of multicolored feathers whisked out of his G-string — "It looks like a muppet exploded out here," says Miss Kitten afterward — his Cowboy routine, a bronco-busting ride on a pogo-stick horse, winds up in showers of multicolored stardust glitter scooped out of the same prodigious source.

    Burlesque Is Back in Paris Judy Fayard 2010

  • The young men bounce up and down pogo-stick style while the older men wave their arms back and forth in the air, swooning as each man is chosen.

    The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010

  • The young men bounce up and down pogo-stick style while the older men wave their arms back and forth in the air, swooning as each man is chosen.

    The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010

  • The young men bounce up and down pogo-stick style while the older men wave their arms back and forth in the air, swooning as each man is chosen.

    The Madonnas of Echo Park Brando Skyhorse 2010

  • (Before the castle was erected in 1909 with generous funding from former business manager William Randolph Hearst, members like George Santayana were obliged to pogo-stick elsewhere.)

    Lampoon Phools Suffer Gladly Where Young Conan Trod 2009

  • This particular strain of Javanese Housemaid's Knee soon spread from the naked pogo-stick fetishists to their friends, and then on from both of them out into the general public.

    Archive 2009-04-01 David Hadley 2009

  • It all began when some hamsters, already infected with a new strain of deadly Javanese Housemaid's Knee, were imported into this country by a gang of naked pogo-stick fetishists who used hamsters in certain unnatural acts involving whipped cream, adjustable spanners and volume 4 of the Encyclopaedia of Rude and Naughty Things G-M.

    The Hamsters of Doom David Hadley 2009

  • (Before the castle was erected in 1909 with generous funding from former business manager William Randolph Hearst, members like George Santayana were obliged to pogo-stick elsewhere.)

    Lampoon Phools Suffer Gladly Where Young Conan Trod 2009

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