Word: lampooner
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...Wertmuller's intention to rehearse this sexist drama uncritically. Not only do her published statements contradict this reading, but her second film, The Seduction of Mimi, is such a riotous and trenchant lampoon of Italian machismo as to make it inconceivable that Wertmuller deliberately endorses such a relationship here...
Perhaps the rooming arrangements could even be extended to extracurricular activities. The Crimson might pick up a little levity and the Lampoon a social conscience if sophomore members of the organizations lived together. Potential do-gooders housed in Mower and Stoughton would reject all past reluctance to engage in social work full-time when subjected to the looming, guilt-trip-inducing presence of Phillips Brooks House. Likewise, potential converts could be placed in Thayer north or the western end of Canaday, where the mystical magnetism of Memorial Church would soon prove irresistable...
...born in New York City in 1922, schooled in Connecticut and Long Island. At Harvard he earned a reputation as a humorist when, in 1944, he edited the Lampoon. A small, wiry man with graying hair, Gaddis still prefers the old collegiate look of Shetland sweaters and buck shoes...
...easily visualize matronly ladies who come paying high theater prices expecting to see a play, who are shocked and involuntarily titillated by the uninhibited use of words they have only read in print and even then disguised by asterisks. But for a generation of college students nurtured on National Lampoon, Lenny Bruce and Cheech & Chong, The London Madhouse Company despite all the hyperbolic publicity, will seem quite tame and a bit on the dreary side...
...that he resembles commercial art, but that commercial art is good because it has learned the practical lessons of Mondrian, Picasso and modern art. Because of their plentifulness and familiarity we take for granted and deprecate the superb graphics of magazines like Playboy, Esquire, and National Lampoon. But how many boring dull articles have we been snared into by eye-catching graphics? And in a hundred years, how many architecture students will be studying the prefabricated simplicity and functionality of a Jack...