Word: lampooning
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...fevered young man in his dead father's disguise and commissioning the Requiem. Similarly, the two main actors, chosen from a thousand who auditioned for the roles, must follow different circuits to their roles. Hulce, who may be remembered by movie fans as the prime nerd in National Lampoon's Animal House, must stride on-screen as a fop manqué, pinwheeling his arrogance, before the audience can find the obsession at the core of his genius. Hulce prepared for the role by practicing piano four hours a day. "After that," he says, "all I felt like doing...
...mustiness a must? Then the Starr Book Shop (29 Plympton St.) in the Lampoon Castle is your haven. A crowded room upstairs full of classics, and a downstairs specializing mostly in older nonfiction can keep you for hours. Feeling adventurous? Then check out its room of unsorted paperbacks. But be prepared to stand or sit on the stone floor--very few (if any) stools or chairs here...
...comic book lore. You can also pick up comic books at Newbury Comics (36 John F. Kennedy St., in The Garage and at Superhero Universe (1105 Mass. Ave.), a few minutes' walk up Mass. Ave. towards Control Square, Superhero Universe also includes back issues of magazines like Playboy, National Lampoon, and Starlog, as well as all the special publications that herald new science fiction or the latest Lucas-Spielberg epic...
...Putnam seems to have come into moneymaking as an afterthought. At Harvard, where he wore the number 54 jersey on Eliot House's intramural football team and yukked it up with the Lampoon, Putnam majored in biochemistry...
...into the bottom of the stairwell. There was a direct hit on an upturned face. (My roommate and I were in bed and sound asleep by the time the proctor, moving rapidly, reached our, lower, floor.) And I remember two other events, both sponsored, I believe, by the Lampoon. A distraught "mother," whose baby carriage had inexplicably and suddenly become engulfed in flames in front of Sever at exactly 11 o'clock one morning, and the December mugging in front of the Coop of a Salvation Army "Santa" who subsequently set off in pursuit, bell ringing furiously, of the "thieves...