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Elvis Presley
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  • One of the signs showed Elvis Presley with a guitar on his hip and a cartoon balloon with the words HEARTBREAK HOTEL.†   (source)
  • On her wall, she thumbtacked magazine photos of her two dream stars, Elvis Presley and Smokey Robinson, surrounding them with a rainbow of paper colors.†   (source)
  • In addition to CDs, there were actual vinyl record albums—thousands of them, some of them most likely collector's items, including an unopened copy of Abbey Road and a slew of old 45s simply hanging on the wall with signatures of people like Elvis Presley, Bob Marley, and Ritchie Valens.†   (source)
  • He was an Elvis impersonator, and when I asked him his name he replied without hesitation, "Elvis Presley."†   (source)
  • It was the type of house they called a "rambling bungalow" (the term reminded me somehow of Elvis Presley movies), with wainscoting and steam radiators and about fifty coats of paint on the door frames, so that you could use your thumbnail to scrape out a history of all the house's tenants as far back as the sixties, when people were fond of painting their woodwork apple green and royal blue.†   (source)
  • Like Elvis Presley when he sang certain songs.†   (source)
  • Above two vending machines hung a portrait of Elvis Presley that had been painted on velvet.†   (source)
  • An RPG had shot down a Black Hawk with a cartoon of Elvis Presley on its side, captioned VELVET ELVIS.†   (source)
  • "I don't care if you're with Elvis Presley, clear my field!" demanded Gair.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Penberthy once met Elvis Presley.†   (source)
  • On the radio, Chubby Checker is exhorting young Americans to do the Twist, while Elvis Presley is asking women every where if they're lonesome tonight.†   (source)
  • He had reddish hair, semi-decent features, and wide sideburns that ran to the bottom of his ear lobes, a la Elvis Presley.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Rhodes grabbed me by the hand and then pulled both of us through the coolness of the carport, past the mannequin and rocks, and into the box-cluttered kitchen, where she poured glasses of Coca-Cola and put on an Elvis Presley record.†   (source)
  • The towns not to be left behind proudly announce their celebrated sons, so the traveler is informed by signs and banners—Birthplace of Elvis Presley, of Cole Porter, of Alan P. Huggins.†   (source)
  • Neptune himself (avoid the groin) was throwing his hip to one side in an Elvis Presley move.†   (source)
  • Tiny raised his forearm, revealing a Mount Rushmore-size tattoo of Elvis Presley.†   (source)
  • Airbrushed across the surface was a 1970s Elvis Presley in his white rhinestone jumpsuit.†   (source)
  • "Do you like Elvis Presley?" he asked, his face so dose she could smell his breath, faintly acid.†   (source)
  • "I didn't expect you even knew about Elvis Presley," ' she said.†   (source)
  • There were, for instance, four tapes entitled "Elvis Presley's Golden Years," three of "Folk Songs of Lithuania," three of "Boy George Takes It Off," and two of "Mantovani's Mellow Strings," as well as some titles that sported a mere single tape each: "Twisted Sisters at Carnegie Hall" is one of which I am particularly fond.†   (source)
  • Elvis Presley, things like that.†   (source)
  • They never did look much like each other, Estha and Rahel, and even when they were thin-armed children, flat-chested, wormridden and Elvis Presley—puffed, there was none of the usual "Who is who?" and "Which is which?" from oversmiling relatives or the Syrian Orthodox bishops who frequently visited the Ayemenem House for donations.†   (source)
  • The ghost of Elvis Presley will be seen taking lonely walks at dawn around Graceland, his musical mansion.†   (source)
  • Elvis Presley.†   (source)
  • The Elvis Presley power struggle?†   (source)
  • Even more startling is the case of five-year-old Patti Weaver who has made convincing claims to Dr. Chatterjee that in her previous-life experience she was the secret KGB assassin responsible for the unsolved murders of famed personalities Howard Hughes, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley.†   (source)
  • His first album alone has already sold more than the Beatles and Elvis Presley did in their entire careers combined, and the televised concert is expected to have the largest viewing audience in history.†   (source)
  • And if you want to believe the dog is Fate, or the Ghost of Sins Remembered, or even the reincarnation of Elvis Presley, then believe it.†   (source)
  • They have Elvis Presley zucchini molds now: you clamp them around your zucchini while it's young, and as it grows it's deformed into the shape of Elvis Presley's head.†   (source)
  • Every time we hit a bump, Bedouin trinkets jangled on the rearview mirror—a metal disk etched with Arabic calligraphy, a Christmas-tree–shaped pine air freshener, some animal teeth on a leather strap, and a little icon of Elvis Presley for reasons I didn't understand.†   (source)
  • She said that Clara had two more miscarriages after the war and talked about Tuck building the garage before gradually beginning to restore cars in the early 1950s, including a Cadillac owned by an up-and-coming singer named Elvis Presley.†   (source)
  • Thank you, Antibbe, he whispered to himself in the same way he sometimes sang Elvis Presley's songs with no one else to hear.†   (source)
  • Yes, I like Elvis Presley.†   (source)
  • Elvis Presley.†   (source)
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