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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carvey's Church Lady, the body-building brothers Hans and Franz -- are the weakest parts of the show, crowd pleasers that depend on makeup gimmicks rather than nimble gags. Too many sketches are pat and obvious in ways that the old group wouldn't have tolerated (a team of ad executives, marooned on an island, worries more about meetings and market surveys than about building a raft to escape). The live production, meanwhile, is more polished but lacks the old gleam. The actors now get extensively made up for their impressions (Chevy used to do Gerald Ford without even changing...
Former Council Secretary David A. Battatt '91 condemned the ad in equally unambiguous terms: "There's no reason for us to put out this kind of self-righteous propaganda...
...exhausive account of the disinformation contained in the ad would probably fill this page, so I will list only a few examples...
...didn't surprise me to hear that the person behind the ad was former Council Chair Kenneth E. Lee '89, according to Battatt...
Actually, I do want to drag his name through the mud. Harvard students should not have to take the statements of their student leaders with a pillar of salt. Lee and any other council members who approved of the misleading statements in their ad have abused the confidence invested in them by the students they represent. A bit of righteous indignation is perfectly appropriate here...