Word: lampooning
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ALEX BROOK'S intimate set contributes to the effect by letting the audience concentrate on the intensities of the characters themselves. A candy and soda store mixing the cheapness of Store 24 and the clutter of the Starr Bookstore in the back of the Lampoon, the set keeps the audience in close to the heat of the action. The overall effect is perhaps a little jumbled, a confusion of Scooter pies and Glad bags, dusty dress-makers' models and today's newspapers. The chaos almost seems better suited to a country antique shop than a store in the heart...
...surprisingly, Maccoby himself has done a little leading in his time. In 1954, as the president of The Crimson, he and George Abrams, the managing editor, stole the Lampoon's treasured ibis statue and presented it to a high-ranking Russian diplomat in New York as a token of goodwill and friendship on the part of all American students...
...piano. He is happy, he says, spending January to June as a teacher at Santa Cruz, where the snow never falls, and living in Cambridge for the rest of the year. A piano dominates the book-lined living room of his Cambridge house, but he says the temptation to lampoon our current national and personal follies never overcomes him. It's easy to get the impression that things may just not be as funny as they were in Lehrer's prime. Perhaps the combination of ego and bluster to which Lehrer attributed most of the world's ills no longer...
This was not the first time the steam has built up to such an extent that it comes out of the "ears under the helmet of the Castle tower," Lampoon members said. But no one has ever mistaken this "occasional" happening for a fire, they added...
...Lampy was just letting off some steam after a long hard job doing the [People] parody," Lampoon member Stephanie J. Young '83 said...