Word: lampooner
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...thought that Cambridge may no longer be a safe place for unguarded foliage may be giving city officials quite a headache. It seems that no tree, not even the Freedom Tree--which used to sit in front of the Lampoon Castle--is safe anymore...
...felling of the tree marks the latest incident stemming from a feud which dates back to the 1960s. Much suspicion falls on the Lampoon, a semi-secret organization known to occasionally publish what some hesitantly call a humor magazine. Lampoon members were unavailable for comment yesterday...
...Lampoon allegedly harbors bad feelings towards former Cambridge mayor and Freedom tree-planter Alfred E. Vellucci. And while many suspect that the butchering and poisoning may have been the Lampoon's revenge against the maverick former mayor, nothing has been proven...
...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...