Word: bayeux
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There was a brief ceremony at Bayeux, the cathedral town about five miles inland that served as U.S. headquarters during the first weeks after the invasion. Later, a torch was lighted at Utah Beach, where the 4th Division had land ed, and a military band played the na tional anthems of the U.S., Britain, France, Canada, The Netherlands, Belgium and Norway...
...familiar McClellandisms (witty visual and literary interjections) enrich this poster. Plump black letters which form a compositionally important triangle read "Hundreds of boys across the sea: everything for democracy." The Boggie--an all-line quasi-doggie--stops at this poster before moving on to McClelland's Bayeux Tavestry, a facetious tapestry he designed for the Lampoon...
...only you could judge a book by its cover, the current edition of the Lampoon would be the most brilliant to come out in many years. How many good parodies of the Bayeux tapestry have you seen in the last millenium? David McClelland's cover brings the Norman invasion to Harvard and is much funnier than anything British advertisers produced in their summer-long camapign to sell Stout by making fun of the Battle of Hastings. If you see anyone laughing out loud at what's inside the Lampoon (and how often do you see that?), it is probably McClelland...
...balance, then, this is a very literate Lafpoon, and one with the same possibilities that the Ugly Duckling promised. But it is as unprovocative as it can be. If the good burghers of Bayeux ever see a copy, they may mutter a few "Sacre bleus," but who else could it provoke? Even the Lampoon's toothless progenitor, Punch, doesn't shy away from talking politics. Nor should the Lampoon, which never takes a stand, never catches you unawares, never makes you drop your jaw and the magazine at an outrageous line. In olden days, jesters felt obliged to insult monarchs...
...known internationally than almost any other town." To give the anniversary its deserved importance (and attract 250,000 extra tourists to boot), the Hastings Town Council spent $16,800 building a triple-domed exhibition hall called the Triodome. Principal exhibit of the Triodome was supposed to be the great Bayeux Tapestry, ordered up by the conquering Normans shortly after the battle. But the tapestry is the property of the town of Bayeux in Normandy, which refused to give it up, and so Hastings had to produce its own. It came through beautifully. Now hanging in the Triodome is a tapestry...