Word: lampooning
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...will leave Lowell House at the base of Holyoke Street, on every hour and half hour from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m., stopping at the Lampoon, Widener Gate, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, along Oxford Street, and on Shepard Street in front of Hilles...
...IDEALLY-CONSTRUCTED university community, there would be a place for an ideal Lampoon. There are many days when it's not so great to get out of bed and realize you're alive in Cambridge--days when the Massachusetts sky dumps its cheerless load of snow and misery onto the frozen ground, when fingers numbed by cold try to hammer out the five tutorial papers due by dawn, when the sparkly conversation of a Lesley College charmer is not quite enough to make a satisfactory night's entertainment. On those bleak days, an ideal Lampoon would appear at the corner...
Needless to say, there hasn't been an ideal Lampoon for as long as anyone in the world can remember. The problem isn't the chronic lack of belly laughs in a typical issue; wisely deciding that Daffy Duck type humor is best left to the Brattle, Poonies have aimed for something a little more subtle. But as the latest Thanksgiving number shows, the emphasis on subtlety can go a little too far--like when it blots out anything funny...
...anything, but is damned if he does or he doesn't. Simpler souls may be content with noting that Tattersall has a vested interest in failure. And so does De Vries, for Hank's hegira through a series of professions allows the author to lampoon various American scenes and sideshows, sometimes with Swiftian savagery...
...Lampoon officers had originally planned to spend the money in a commemoration of the Battle of Hastings. They planned to have armies and elephants float across the Charles, but the Administration said that undergraduates were not allowed to rent elephants...