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...recent Overnite Sensation an even greater effort to reach the larger record-buying public. In the process Zappa forsakes musical complexity for standard four-beat rhythms, heavymetal guitar runs and scatalogical excesses not unlike Harvard Lampoon humor. Apostrophe' offers more of the same, including "Don't Eat Yellow Snow." Perhaps the only redeeming feature of these two albums is the tight ensemble playing that is typical of the Mothers...
...business sector gets it all and the whole thing winds up being slightly less funny than an Ec 10 lecture. Some skits are more successful, but don't seem particularly original--the one about the guru who celebrates "the banal and the obvious" sounds a lot like the National Lampoon's Craig Baker series, for example, and "Euclid's Elemental" is second-rate Tom Lehrer...
Perhaps Laurie Scheffler really writes for The Lampoon and the letter was a gag? I hope so! Laurence...
...shoulders and Hudson Hornets is divided into the locals - those who are actually living and working on the film in 1948 - and the visitors - those like himself who were mysteriously dumped there. There are scores of visitors, including a Philadel phia cook named Whittaker Kaiser, who is a merciless lampoon of Norman Mailer at his most masculine pugnacious. Richard Nixon even puts in a brief appearance, wanting to know if there is an extradition treaty between 1948 and the future...
John W. Gillespie Jr. '75, an editor of the publication, said that the Lampoon had enlisted the aid of International Police at "not much cost." The official statement also cited assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local and state police...