Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entire down-home household in Greenwood, Ind. Some of these people and their situations are the predictable stuff of sitcoms, and at moments the show makes fun of easy targets. Tomlin seems determined to find something sympathetic in each character, yet often defers such revelations until the obvious humor has been exhausted. Still, the self-examinations can be potent: the spiteful teenager closes the first act with a blazing speech about how she would like to emulate the indifference to pain of her "hero," G. Gordon Liddy, but she cannot deny the agony of thrusting her hand, or her soul...
Lessing extracts a good dose of macabre humor from the dreariness of this household and the deluded egotism of its inhabitants. Jasper's manner as a public speaker, seen through the clammy mist of Alice's adoration, yields an acid portrait: "His style was to use the familiar phrases of the socialist ) lexicon, but as though he had only just that moment discovered them, so that when he began, there was often a moment when people showed a tendency to laugh." But it becomes increasingly difficult to care about Alice and her confederates. They are looking for trouble...
Although The National Lampoon humor magazine is axing 150,000 subscriptions in a desperate attempt to bring itself into the black, the move is expected to have little or no effect on the Harvard Lampoon, which it substantially supports...
Founded in 1970 by graduates of the semi-secret, humor-oriented select social club, the New York-based National Lampoon has a contract to "pay the Harvard Lampoon a royalty for the use of the name 'Lampoon,"' Simmons said. But he refused to disclose the exact amount. Jessica Marshall '86, a Crimson editor who last month was named president of the Lampoon, put it more bluntly: "We just get a hefty check from them every month...
...Certainly the bomb squad was no joke, but there is some humor in this," Rupple said, adding that "this will not deter our efforts [to award inappropriate class comments] with the bomb...