Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson ran a photograph of Littauer Hall, with the caption "City Hall?" underneath, and The Lampoon, not do be outdone by the city council, demanded status as a "Free City...
...escalated the next day, however, when several Lampoon initiates began goose-stepping down Mass. Ave., carrying the club banner in a march for independence. Councillor Michael A. Sullivan saw the group marching and asked whether they had a protest permit. When the marchers answered that they hadn't, Sullivan attempted to confiscate the Lampoon banner from them...
Maybe that's why the Harvard Lampoon's parody issue of Time magazine may turn out to be its most successful project ever...
...these qualities assesed? Well, it varies. To make Crimson Key, for instance, you must give tours to two staff members and be interviewed by several others. To make the Lampoon, you must contribute six pieces containing some humorous content (a requirement which, recent issues suggest, is waived immediately following election to the staff...
...commercial project, Wired has its problems. Belushi, the brilliant, volatile star of Saturday Night Live and films like National Lampoon's Animal House, has become a posthumous icon, a symbol of the raucous counterculture comedy that Saturday Night Live spearheaded in the '70s. But cinematic tales of drug abuse (Less Than Zero, Clean and Sober) have fizzled at the box office, and Wired is an especially downbeat example. What's more, with Belushi's work so vividly remembered (and still widely available in TV reruns), a movie re-creation might seem morbidly gratuitous, even by Hollywood standards...