Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Which is the Lampoon, Dear Reader: a select club or a literary effort? For the last few months, the answer has been all too clear. The Castle may have been beseiged with good times, but the printed matter has been dreary. Since fall, the Lampoon's coffers have been cracking with filthy PlayboyParody lucre. The club was refurbished, but the magazine's layout and content brightened only sporadically. Unfortunately for the Lampoon, money can talk, but it can't write...
...Lampoonthe "Games People Play Number." In comparison to the last few issues, it looks pretty good. Just as we were getting sick of the merino-joke re-runs, they have disappeared to make room for almost entirely new copy. Not only that, but in the "games" theme the Lampoon has found a big, bright, hard-to-miss bullseye. With a theme, and a fairly simple one, to focus on, the Poonies are on target more often than usual. Most of the six or seven games they have invented are mildly funny-sometimes very mildly-but at least the average...
...EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). "We Interrupt This Season" tosses a barbed lampoon at some staples of TV programming: election coverage, weather reporting, guided tours of famous places and those late-late, talk-talk shows...
Vallee's brilliant bumbling, on the other hand, is even better on the wide screen, as when he Freudian slips, "I like the way you thinch, Fink" and intones the college musical lampoon, Grand Old Ivy. For the first time, Hollywood seems to have cracked the Morse code: after appearing in a succession of turkeys-most recently Oh Dad, Poor Dad (TIME, March 3)-Bobby is finally allowed to steal a picture the way he stole the show. He burbles with the irresistible energy of a degenerate Peter Pan as he chants to a mirror, I Believe...
...Bickford's. Since then, the lady with the world's stoutest smile has cheered her customers in sports, counseled them in love, sympathized when they broke up with their girl friends and watched them get married. In return, the Register has picked her as an honorary freshman advisor, the Lampoon cast her in an "impromptu production," and the Hasty Pudding always gave her their best seats...