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...boycotts--and her two other solos of the night were equally impressive. Katie Guillory's solos in "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" and "Don't Tell Mama" deserved highest praise, and Clancy Drake's smoother than smooth performance in "Scotch 'n' Soda" provided a delightful encore for the audience to savor...
Well, maybe the first annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony held at MIT was not so typical. The Ig Nobel prizes honoring individuals for irreproducible results in humanities and the sciences were made possible by the generosity of the late Ignatius ("Ig") Nobel, "the mythical inventor of soda pop and co-inventor of Excelsior," and possible relative of Alfred...
Following the Welcome, Welcome speech ("Welcome! Welcome!"), the Salient Dignitaries and Nobel laureates were introduced to the audience. Tokens were thrown during the Token Speech, music was played during the Keynote Speech and burps were uttered during the Traditional Soda Pop Ceremony...
...luscious, Big-Band rendition of It's Been a Long, Long Time. On the screen, black-and-white photos dissolve one into another: soldiers coming home, couples embracing, homey shots from Main Street. "In the autumn of 1945," a female narrator intones, "America was invincible. The countertops at the soda fountain were still made of marble. Sodas cost a nickel. And Coke -- well, it only meant cola...
...house was comfortable but hardly posh. A white-coated butler floated silently into and out of the various rooms where we talked throughout the afternoon and evening, offering water, beer, coffee, soda. As a moonfaced secretary transcribed our formal interview, Rodriguez picked his words carefully, frequently consulting and reciting verbatim from typewritten notes...