Word: lampooning
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...Generation Xmas," James Poniewozik described how A Christmas Story has supplanted It's a Wonderful Life as the favorite Christmas movie of 18-to-41-year-olds [Dec. 10]. But he ignored the generation of the moment - the boomers. We too have our own iconic Christmas movie: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Clark Griswold personifies all of our ideals to the extreme. Every year we confront the hassles of "exterior illumination," the perfect tree, the extravagant and costly family gifts, the visiting relatives who wish they were somewhere else, the big dinner, the disorganized cleanup afterward and the demolished...
...Generation X-mas," James Poniewozik described how A Christmas Story has supplanted It's a Wonderful Life as the favorite Christmas movie of 18-to-41-year-olds [Dec. 10]. But he ignored the generation of the moment - the boomers. We too have our own iconic Christmas movie: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Clark Griswold personifies all of our ideals to the extreme. Every year we confront the hassles of "exterior illumination," the perfect tree, the extravagant and costly family gifts, the visiting relatives who wish they were somewhere else, the big dinner, the disorganized cleanup afterward and the demolished...
...fell the trees that had been recently planted on the Mt. Auburn Street island in front of the castle housing the Harvard Lampoon—a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. Powers is also a member of the Lampoon...
...Lampoon has a long-standing animosity toward trees in front of the Castle. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, there were several failed attempts to destroy a tree outside the building...
Before hanging up abruptly, a man who answered the Lampoon phone number said that he did not have any information...