Word: lampooner
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...years he has built a loyal following, particularly among cynical baby boomers. Although his first crude efforts at experimental poetry have been consigned to a dusty bookshelf in his seven-fireplace New Hampshire home, O'Rourke found success in the late 1970s as editor in chief at National Lampoon. By the early 1980s, he started free-lancing and soon became a Rolling Stone regular. Several books followed, among them Holidays in Hell, an outrageous account of his world travels, and Republican Party Reptile, an uneven collection of essays that includes his infamous "How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting...
...immense desire to succeed. Perhaps O'Rourke's troubled childhood or his mother's death in 1973 helps explain this unfettered ambition, which, along with his right-wing politics, is about the worst trait anyone pins on him. He made some enemies when he took over National Lampoon. "He went from combat boots to two-tones over a weekend," says former Lampooner Sean Kelly, who calls him a chameleon. But even Kelly concedes a grudging respect for O'Rourke's success. Although Koreans are still smarting from his essay that described them as "hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards...
...president's relief, the elephant and the ruckus turned out to be part of a Lampoon rally celebrating Vietnamese elections...
...president's relief, the elephant and the ruckus turned out be part of a Lampoon rally celebrating Vietnamese elections...
...MAIN HEADLINE of last Thursday's Crimson trumpeted that notoriously hip filmmaker Spike Lee would be teaching a one-semester course at Harvard next spring. And many students, quite understandably, promptly dismissed the paper as a Lampoon parody...