Word: lampooning
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Four boys sat rapt before their television sets 20 years ago, following Rod Serling's voice into "another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind." They grew up, or at least aged, to become successful film makers: John Landis with National Lampoon's Animal House, Joe Dante with The Howling, George Miller with The Road Warrior and Steven Spielberg with half of the megahit movies of the past eight years. But they never forgot The Twilight Zone. In Steven Spielberg's E.T., one teen-ager hypes the spookiness by singing Marius Constant...
This is the most assured and hilarious of the three Martin-Carl Reiner collaborations. There is something classically American about its monomaniacal pursuit of a gag every five seconds, characterization and redeeming social value be damned. The movie is rather like a Henny Youngman monologue combined with a National Lampoon spread. And it offers reassuring proof that the spirit of arrested adolescence lives on, at least for one more summer...
Michael Ferris '83's Ivy Oration poked fun at the stereotype of the Harvard student concerned only with success. The Lampoon editor addressed his remarks to "fellow classmates, alumni and future employers," in a last paced speech virtually punctuated by continuous laughter from the audience...
...most years, the stalwart, established magazines--the Lampoon and the Advocate--published their products throughout the year. With the appearance of the "French" issue this week, the Lampoon has published four times this year--five, including last fall's nationally distributed Newsweek parody, which featured a cover story entitled: "Nuclear Arms and Terrific Legs: How the Atomic Threat is Affecting America's Cover Girls...
...agents of the Senior Class Gift. Their efforts proved once again how vital senior and alumni gifts are in maintaining and improving Harvard as a center of learning and a forum for debate. All aspects of undergraduate life, from the libraries and the Houses to The Crimson and the Lampoon, benefit directly from true giving...