Word: lampooning
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...Third World students of this University are once again subjected to and abused by the malicious racism that the Lampoon so fondly indulges in for the sake of satirical comedy. Have the mistakes that you have made in previous years escaped your minds or is it that you never really let these mistakes enter into your consciousness? Your arrogance is only overwhelmed by your ignorance and we, Third World students are disgusted by this obvious lack of respect that you have for our intelligence. The implications of the Bakke case apparently have escaped your level of comprehension, if indeed...
...They told me I had won a Bob Hope Youth Award and I thought it was the Lampoon calling," Vaillancourt, who is also a Rhodes Scholarship winner, said Thursday...
...shrift to the country's most important cultural phenomenon. No-nonsense reporters and respected critics were assigned the beat, and sharp, analytical commentary soon came to the TV page. Critics like Tom Shales, 33, of the Washington Post, and Marvin Kitman, 49, of Newsday, are masters of the lampoon. The new breed can also level their targets with sheer ferocity. One recent example from the Boston Globe's William A. Henry III: "RKO General has run Channel 7 with such greed, arrogance and contempt for the people of Boston that we all ought to stop watching...
...sounds of Mr. Test floating down Mem Hall mark exam period, the posturing, the hand-shaking, the favor-doing, the responsible-statesman tone of voice, the fund-raising, the denial of candidacy mark running for office. This year's field of contenders is even more of a National Lampoon parody than usual. Take the rerun of the '76 Republican dogfight (elephant fight?), for example, only this time Old Ronald McDonald Reagan is approaching the age of mandatory retirement for most jobs and Gerry Ford is still Gerry Ford, unfortunately more so. If that isn't a sick joke...
Delta House's first episode, written by the Lampoon veterans who created the movie, is always amusing. Alas, the original's gleeful sexual reveries cannot be duplicated on TV, but the antiauthoritarian tone is intact. There are even gags about Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Arnold Toynbee, thus placing Delta House roughly two intellectual cuts above CBS's pompous The Paper Chase. Let the viewer beware, however, for future episodes will be written by different hands. Should ABC fail to exercise strong quality control, this promising spin-off could quickly go into a tailspin...