Word: lampooning
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Communism became an important issue in everything, including student pranks. In his history The Harvard Century, author Richard N. Smith recalls one time during the 1950s when The Crimson pulled a joke on the Lampoon...
First offensive. On Oct. 13, the Harvard Lampoon published a parody of The Crimson. On the second page, snugly set between "Calvin & Hobbes" and "I, Argus Aardvark," set a picture of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III fornicating, since he is married, with Ziggy, an asexual looking cartoon...
...administration. Or, I might wonder if the artist unintentionally used Dean Epps in this sexual cartoon because of all the beliefs surrounding the sexual prowess of the Black male in American society. I could even suggest that, instead of it being a Freudian slip of the brush (pen), the Lampoon artists and the board blatantly used a racial stereotype, knowing its offensive ability...
Magazines have the right to prevent the Lampoon from doing a parody, Aboud said. In fact, a potential lawsuit discouraged the Lampoon from producing a parody of Vanity Fair, he said...
Aboud said he is especially proud of the polar bear Rumple Minze ad on page 25 of the magazine. "We haven't seen it since back issues of National Lampoon and Playboy," he said