Word: lampooning
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...Haddow, who wrote the show, are good at zany little bits of dialogue. In one skit, Jesus Christ shows up for an audition. "You don't look like your picture, Christ," remarks the casting director. "I shaved for a commercial," answers the beardless deity. There is a delicious lampoon of Joseph Papp's Public Theater. A character walks onstage carrying a case labeled P.T. PLAYWRIGHTING KIT. Its contents include "bogus charisma" and a promise to "turn your meaningless tripe into a crock...
...early '50s were the golden age of the college prank. For example, two Harvard band members were arrested in October 1953 for staging an impromptu 3 a.m. concert on Yale's Old Campus. The most elaborate stunt may have been The Crimson's theft of the Lampoon's symbol, its beloved Ibis, in April 1953. The Crimson then donated the statue to the Soviet embassy in New York as a gift from the students of America to those of the USSR. The treasurer of the Lampoon called on Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy to investigate this trafficking with the enemy...
...college women of the early '50s, among them the Class of '54. While the college was making significant innovations with the Radcliffe seminars in the early fifties and started construction of Holmes Hall and the Cronkhite Graduate Center, The Crimson devoted more coverage to the stealing of Lampoon's Ibis, to the annual Miss Radcliffe contest (Lois Love Eberling '54, a concentrator in Social Relations, was the winner in this year's 25th reunion class) and to the autumn, 1953 controversy over whether to extend Radcliffe parietal hours from 10 to 11 p.m. (They eventually were extended, but only...
...sports programming leans largely to documentaries of a sort; for example, an April baseball preview in which American League managers and players discussed the Yankees' chances of whining a fourth straight league pennant. HBO will also spend $13 million on original programming this year. Sample: National Lampoon Presents Disco Beaver from Outer Space, a satirical revue that was shown in February and included skits racier than any seen on regular TV. One was The Breast Game, starring Lynn Redgrave in a parody of TV game shows. An interview show called Upclose went on the air last October; first guests...
Holworthy students suspect that either Thayer, the Lampoon, proctor Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld or residents familiar with the computer were responsible for the prank...