Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eric Kaplan, Harvard Lampoon...
...case of the Iran-Contra affair, the fictitious Mastergate scandal takes on the air of the surreal. Like Contragate, Mastergate is based on the diversion of government funds. Through the wiles of CIA Director Wiley Slaughter (Alvin Epstein)--a thinly disguised lampoon of former real-life CIA Director William Casey--$800 million in government funds is diverted to produce a Hollywood epic. "Tet Offensive"--the film which was based on the book, "Tet Offensive," which was further based on the real-life Vietnam war attack--was to be shot in Central America. Only this time the target, that...
WILLIAM BULGER--One of the most important political events of the year in Boston is the annual St. Patrick's Day brunch hosted by State Senate President William "Billy" Bulger of South Boston. Bulger is both the wit and intellect of Boston politics--quick to lampoon fellow politicians, and always ready with a quote from Virgil. While on the road campaigning for Dukakis this summer, Bulger regaled the press corps with jokes about the candidate: "He may not have charisma," Bulger explains, "but he does have anesthesia...
Rumors that the Harvard Lampoon had staged the event were quickly put to rest by rally participants, who said they belonged to a year-old campus organization, Harvard Students for Quayle...
...premise, originated by the Lampoon staff,is a Senate investigation uncovering "all thestupid ideas and the retarded plans that came out[of the media] and that the media tried to hide,"according to Forbes...