Word: lampooning
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Kenny Shapiro, who directed, promoted, and (with Lane Sarasohn) wrote the show, honestly enough maintains that "There isn't anything to lampoon" on television. "The things I hold up to ridicule are ridiculous to begin with." Working on this philosophy, Shapiro draws most of his takeoffs on TV programs and commercials well beyond the point of closely imitative parody; so far beyond that point, in fact, that they become low comedy in their own right...
...Harvard Lampoon may dechauvinize its ranks by the end of the term, provided its new Executive Board and its Trustees approve...
Last fall, Martin H. Kaplan '71, then President, said that the Lampoon constitution prohibited such a major change in the magazine's operations unless it were first approved by two consecutive Executive Boards and the Trustees...
...constitution also seemed to imply that such a change would have to be proposed at the start of a board's tenure. Since the first new board did not take office until this month, the Lampoon could not go co-ed until February...
Twenty First Century Communications (Weight Watchers, National Lampoon), which will publish the revenant Liberty, is counting on alumni loyalty to take up any advertising slack. "We can make it on single-issue sales alone," says Vice President George Agoglia, "if even half of the one million Liberty salesboys are still alive...