Word: lampooning
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...BEEN a long wait for the people at National Lampoon since their first and only movie success Animal House. And it has been a while since Saturday Night Live alumnus Chevy Chase warmed America's cockles in "Foul Play." These probably explain why Chase and director Harold Ramis (of Stripes fame) have appeared on every talk show in the country at least twice in the last month, and why the Lampoon magazine wasted an entire issue to promote this comedy...
...film is based on the John Hughes Lampoon short story and the idea is quite funny (although the execution doesn't always work). The vacation of a typical American--if there is such a thing--to Disney World (called Wally World starring Marty Mouse in the movie) just cries out to be parodied...
...National Lampoon's Vacation...
...wall in a teenager's bedroom not be filled with her image, here comes a new $3 poster, her first authorized pinup, with the subject in a Norma Kamali bathing suit that not just anyone could or would wear. Next Brinkley must turn to promoting her movie, National Lampoon's Vacation, due out later this summer. "Life," as Christie has said, "is the search for a decent night's sleep...
...Major clichés become invisible after a while, and Curator Corn has made a valiant effort to strip the accretions from this one. She has included a hilarious collection of cartoons and ads based on American Gothic-an inspired piece of contextual criticism. Far from being a lampoon of conservative Midwestern farmers and their wives, American Gothic is, as she points out, "not about farmers, not about a married couple, and not a satire." Thirty-two years' difference in age lay between its models, Wood's sister Nan and a Cedar Rapids dentist named McKeeby. The subject...