Word: lampooning
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...campus was graced this week by The Lampoon's first issue of the year, a typically tasteful assortment of articles like "Mom was a Nazi" and "The Naked and the Well Read...
Stone, who took the semester off to complete the manuscript, will enlist the writing skills of his brother Webster A. Stone '84 and a friend on the Lampoon to do illustrations...
...attack his opponents very convincingly. Instead of going for the jugular, he often feints and pricks without cutting deep. Too often he seems to think out loud, and his hand gestures tend to be imperfectly synced with his speech. In a recent address at the Illinois capital, his lampoon of Mondale had a schoolboy quality. "I must say, I'd hate to be Walter Mondale these days," said Bush. "I do, I honestly do feel sorry for Fritz Mondale at times. He's a negative sort of guy. Whenever he talks about the President...
Norman Lear hired Borowitz for CBS after the producer met him his senior year at a Lampoon function. "I think it was a gut reaction," said Borowitz of Lear's job offer...
Borowitz said the Lampoon helped his writing, but that he can't remember any classes that honed this skill...