Word: bumbershoot
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...according to his Web site. He travels all over the country, performing at colleges and clubs, and has a penchant for visiting every Wal-Mart he encounters to test all of the deodorants. He’s performed at The Montreal Comedy Festival, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival, and the New York Comedy Festival. Though he has had his fair share of on-air time with appearances on Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend,” “Shorties Watching Shorties,” and “Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn...
...must have seemed so to the startled senior citizen, to Gilbert and Sullivan traditionalists-Can there be such a thing as a Gilbert and Sullivan radical?-and to anyone else who expected an orthodox production that was proper right down to the last parasol. There wasn't a bumbershoot of any description on the Lyric stage. No fans either. They were replaced with tokens and totems of the new pan-Orientalism: signs that blink out Sony, Seiko and, inevitably, Coca-Cola; NankiPoo (Tenor Neil Rosenshein), the wandering minstrel, transformed into a rocker with a red guitar; Yum-Yum (Soprano...
...President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 66, was greeted by Queen Elizabeth II-marking 114 years of Anglo-Liberian friendship. As they boarded an open landau for the 40-minute trot to Buckingham Palace along with squads of Household Cavalry, the rains came. The Queen balanced a royal bumbershoot, but President Tubman had only his black topper to ward off the downpour as he waved to the smattering of onlookers along their route. At the palace, the Queen gave a very wet Tubman a well-earned honor-the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath...
British Mystery Writer Agatha Christie, 66, chugged up the sheer Acropolis, posed-looking not unlike her own fictional Miss Marple with bumbershoot and catchall-beneath the world's most spine-tingling marble slab: the entablature of the Parthenon...
...electrical workers, who twice (1921 and 1937) threw the city into blackout paralysis; of a heart attack; in Miami. Boyle was nicknamed for his tactful method of collecting bribes; in Johnson's saloon, his unofficial headquarters on West Madison Street, he would hang his big cotton bumbershoot on the edge of the bar, discuss terms with "clients," disappear while they slipped the cash into the umbrella. One reported result: when the law wanted to know how he had managed to save $350,000 in eight years on his $50-a-week salary, Umbrella Mike replied, "With great thrift...