Word: kazoo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first performance with our new bells.” The show—complete with hydrogen balloons to simulate cannons—brought together students, faculty, and Cambridge residents alike. Noam D. Elkies, professor of Mathematics, was among the makeshift orchestra, playing the electric keyboard and blowing into a kazoo. The orchestra relocated to the dining hall from the courtyard, which usually houses the performance, due to weather conditions. But the bells still made an appearance in the performance when Yu cued the bell ringers—more properly called the Klappermeisters—with a call from his cell...
...kazoo enthusiast, he reportedly performed Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" with other kazoo players at Louisiana State University...
...clues. It is, essentially, a two-hour PowerPoint presentation, enlivened - if that's the right word - by periodic shots of Al Gore staring pensively out of plane windows, Al Gore frowning contemplatively at computer screens, and Al Gore pacing thoughtfully through airport terminals. The man could make playing a kazoo look like meditation. The movie is about the threat of global warming, and it is full of dire predictions and horrifying scenarios for the Earth's future should we not change our fossil-fuel-guzzling ways. Rising sea levels, hordes of refugees, parching draughts: Call it a docu-trauma. Surprisingly...
...tribute to one of the more playful aspects of Herschbach’s personality, a kazoo band performed...
...MENDOCINO, CALIF. The Fourth of July parade in this small coastal town usually reflects the interests of the citizens, who consider themselves, well, unique. Floats have featured the Big-Haired Women, the Marching Miniature Pigs (and their owners), the Petaluma Chicken Pluckers, and the Marching Susans, whose kazoo players were all named Susan...