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...celebration was sponsored by members of the Harvard Band and the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow Street organization which occasionally publishes what they claim are humor magazines...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: 'Poonsters Rally, Celebrate Harvard's New #1 Ranking | 11/1/1990 | See Source »

...Crew, like other rap bands, speaks in a dialogue unappreciated by and unapproachable to white, middle-class America. He says, for example, that the group's dialogue about their Herculean sexual abilities is a spoof of what white America thinks of a Black man in bed. It is a lampoon of the jibe that "once you go Black, you'll never go back...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: `You Just Wouldn't Understand' | 10/31/1990 | See Source »

...greatly concerned with clothes) are overwhelmingly white. The very fact of homosexuality is largely ignored. Three competitors are in their opening month or two: Details, a bratty, street- talking melange aimed at men in their 20s and early 30s; Men's Life, a smirky yet sentimental blend of National Lampoon and the Saturday Evening Post directed at fortyish suburban baby boomers; and M Inc., a merger of two prestigious but money-losing forerunners, Manhattan, inc. and M, that is meant, like its predecessors, for the well heeled and silver templed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Muchness of Maleness | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...volume, which is this year's traditional Lampoon summer publication, is slated to appear in bookstores nationwide by the end of the academic year, according to Lampoon President Jon D. Beckerman...

Author: By Mona Lin, | Title: Poonsters to Publish Parody | 9/28/1990 | See Source »

...Past Lampoon summer projects have includedparodies of Time magazine and Forbes businessmagazine. Last year's Forbes parody, entitled "TheRichest, Best People in America," prompted a BowSt. parade and party in honor of the latemulti-billionaire Malcolm S. Forbes...

Author: By Mona Lin, | Title: Poonsters to Publish Parody | 9/28/1990 | See Source »

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