In this populous scene, set in a seedy courtyard, a black man strums his banjo for a casual, sympathetically portrayed black audience as the mistress of the plantation looks in.

Somewhere a man was strumming a guitar and singing in soft Spanish.

A few men blew woodflutes and strummed small harps.

As the tenacious rushed past the dazed, a man strummed an out-of-tune guitar at the Brooklyn School for Global Studies table, lending a plaintive tone to the already anxious night.

Young women parked their baby carriages behind police lines, old men stood around smoking cigars, and at one point, a man strummed a song on his guitar to persuade the gunman to release his hostage.

Against the wall of the Roxy, a man was strumming an out-of-tune guitar, doing his best to mutilate an Eric Clapton song ("Bell Bottom Blues," but only a Clapton aficionado would recognize it--it sounded more like "Bell on a Noose").

A young man strummed a guitar in front of the Kettle of Fish restaurant (with lox and cream cheese listed on the menu at 75 cents).

Inside another hut of grass and bamboo, a middle-aged man was strumming Western chords on a guitar.

Before the climactic final round of punning, a young man in a yellow jumpsuit and cap haphazardly strummed a guitar and led us all in a barely recognizable "Eye of the Tiger" sing-along.