Word: deejays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frustrated with the hireling's laid-back style. Recalls Ross: "I wanted an irritant to wake somebody up during the early morning." He grabbed the microphone and began wildly shouting out lines. "When the engineer played it back," Ross says, "it sounded so good that I told the deejay to go home." In one zany Fourth of July ad, Ross dressed like a firecracker and blew up in a "sales explosion...
...battleground will be the Freshman Union. The three opposing powers are MIT's "The Other Hand," Brandeis' "The Anti-Zeroes," and Boston University's "The Eskimos." And between each performance, the Wellesley College deejay Alice Lei will play dance mixes, said Jeffrey A. Nachmanoff '89, one of the organizers of the Student Production Agencies-sponsored event...
Lewis Silverman kicks out the jams as megalomaniacal and libido-crazed deejay Vince Fontaine, and Andrea Shlipak plays megaditz yearbook editor Patty Simcox with similar reckless abandon. Missy Dubroff and Michael Kelley also shine in supporting roles as clique-members Frenchy and Roger. As for the play itself, well, suffice it to say that there are few deep philosophical insights. But the script flows well and is a lot funnier than one might think, remembering the 1978 movie...
...planning our next mixer, we can lose most of what we have in paying for a deejay, police and lighting and decoration," says Steven A. Colarossi '86, Dudley House committee chairman...
Karaoke units are finding their way into other arenas. Some small churches employ them to give choirs a more inspiring sound. Emotionally disturbed children at the University of Nebraska's Psychiatric Institute work out problems by creating commercials and playing deejay with Starmakers. At Songmasters' Graceland Recording Studio & Singalong Shop, across the street from Elvis Presley's Memphis mansion, the machines have become as much a part of the scene as the "King's" aging groupies, who tape their versions of Elvis' hits on them. Finished tapes cost $9.95 a song. Owner Gary Hardy woos reluctant patrons with...