Word: lampooning
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...prank e-mails sent Saturday night appearing to be sent by the puerile minds of The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, claimed to announce Harvard’s next president. The paltry rehash of a former hoax sparked momentary confusion in the student body...
...sudden passion for half-wit humor? Well, National Lampoon has also produced a sometimes tasteless but usually funny series of movies. The biggest: National Lampoon's Animal House, which netted the firm $13 million. Lots of businessmen can giggle over that...
...magazines in the known universe, few are dumber, ruder or more tasteless?and proud of it?than the National Lampoon, circulation about 300,000. The latest issue features "I Temporarily Returned from the Dead and Went to Caroline Kennedy's Wedding," by Aristotle Onassis. National Lampoon's parent company, curiously known as National Lampoon Inc., lost $750,000 last year. That makes it remarkable that the firm has become a takeover target. In the past two weeks three suitors have bid up to $11. 3 million...
...Well, yes, that was the point. The editorial was intended as a satire of Asian stereotypes. It was to function as a stereotype of stereotypes. The intention, the next day’s respectful but defiant Editor’s Note argued, was “to lampoon racism by showing it at its most outrageous. We embraced racist language in order to strangle it.” Like proponents of absurdist theater in the ’20s, the idea is to present to the audience something so outrageous that they are compelled to disagree with...
...which point headphone-sporting students cheered and ran down the streets dancing, receiving directions on where to go over their headphones. The dancers got it on everywhere from the John Harvard statue (one student started dancing on the Puritan’s lap) to the steps of the Lampoon, finishing up in front of the WHRB station. “It’s even better than it was two years ago, [it’s the] most inclusive party on campus,” says Grace C. Wilentz ’07. Many non-Harvard students participated, including seventh...