Word: lampooning
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...arena for hockey games and rock concerts, Philadelphia's 19,500-seat Spectrum is attractive and ample. As a setting for a ballet performance, it provided a frenzy of flashing lights, hissing loudspeakers and cloudbursts of balloons that resembled nothing quite so much as Busby Berkeley's lampoon of a dancer's nightmare...
PRECISE MOVEMENT and clever choreography make the visual tableau in Walklyndon equally effective. In this lampoon of walking styles, the pacing is so sharp that the dancers give the feeling of a busy street corner in New York. Stern businessmen too pressed to shake hands, matrons walking their pets, friends out for a breath of air, all parade by. The theme grows more intriguing as walkers begin to bump into each other, scramble to avoid a collision, or walk over each other. In this dance, the facial expressions add such personality to the gaits themselves that the piece borders...
...spectacle of Councilor Alfred Vellucci spending his time by nursing his vanity. We are informed by one of his fellow councilors that he is peeved because The Crimson does not give him the kind of coverage he feels he deserves, and so he threatens to humiliate them by forcing Lampoon Avenue into their address. By his actions he indicates an unusually small scope of vision and suggests to all that he has not yet reached mental puberty...
...tragic third trial of Martin Peretz's new investigative reporting policy, an Independent editor is dispatched to check rumors that the Lampoon's Ibis has been electrified to prevent theft. He never returns. "Things were going so well," Peretz moans, announcing the end of the investigative policy. "Liberals like myself are very concerned about human life. Besides, we already have our Pulitzer...
...Harvard Lampoon has announced the election of its board of officers for 1975: George Rohr '76 of Bogota, Colombia and Quincy House, President; Sanford J. Frank '76 of Springfield and Kirkland House, Treasurer; Mark P. O'Donnell '76 of Cleveland, Ohio and Lowell House, Ibis; Kurt B. Andersen '76 of Omaha, Neb. and Dudley House, Narthex; Charles P. Steinbruegge '76 of Atlanta, Ga. and Lowell House, Sanctum; Richard P. Tierney '76 of Newton and Mather House, Sackbut; Edward L. Trimble '76 of Baltimore and Lowell House, Hautboy; Stephen E. Pollack '77 of Detroit and Quincy House, Advertising Manager; and Sanford...