Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lampoon will give the expected $100,000-plus profit from its Life Magazine parody to charity, Lampoon president Thomas P. LaFarge '69 revealed last night...
...felt guilty last year, but this year it would be insupportable to keep the money for ourselves," LaFarge said. The Lampoon spent most of the $100,000 profit from its Playboy Magazine parody last year on renovating the Castle...
...REPERTORY COMPANY offers two drawing-room comedies in verse. Moliere's The Misanthrope is as deliciously vicious a lampoon of the manners and meanness of Louis XIV's court as it was 300 years ago, and it is performed with panache. But T. S. Eliot's 1950 spiritual parable, The Cocktail Party, seems stilted and stale in a limp production...
...those familiar with the Councillor's rhetoric and style this new proposal will come as no surprise. In the past he has suggested turning the Lampoon building into a public urinal ("Well, that's what it looks like isn't it"), the Yard into a dog pound ("We'll put ropes around all of those trees, see, and let 'em sit"), and the area under the Yard into a public parking lot. ("Only thing the land is good for, see. Personally I hope that when they build it the whole place sinks.") In the future he promises more of what...
...Lampoon, in fact, spoils its best effort in the issue with more of this overkill. The last page of Life, as you may or may not know, is entitled "Miscellany" and consists of a captioned photograph, usually of some cuddly animal in some clever pose. The Lampoon parodied it nicely--offering an anguished little girl, left hand over her eyes, right hand holding a gun pointing down at a dead white cat which lies in the street in its own blood. The whole is entitled "No Hard Felines." But, almost as if the Poonies felt this was too subtle...