Word: lampooning
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...present issue of the Lampoon appears to be in mourning for the passing of its Dartmouth counterpart, the Jackolantern...
...Your Show of Shows caught a new sister act in the making: the Metropolitan Opera's Coloratura Lily Pons and rubber-faced Comedienne Imogene Coca. Wearing sequined black lace and looking enough alike to be sisters, they kicked up their heels and scampered through a lusty, full-throated lampoon of Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe warbling When Love Goes Wrong in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...
...Hughes tidied up the film (and his ads) and received an official purity seal in 1949. **Others now shooting: The Littlest Show on Earth, an Italian 3-D spoof of Cecil B. De-Mille's 1951 circus epic, The Greatest Show on Earth: Public Enemy No. i, a lampoon of Hollywood gangster films, with French Comic Fernandel...
...sophomore Art French's last-minute run. Tufts was crushed 69 to 6, and then came the Princeton game, the last Princeton game, in fact, until 1932. The Tigers won, 9 to 0, but the game was lost in a welter of bad feeling over a Lampoon parody which proclaimed the death of the Princeton coach, a regular issue of the 'Poon, which showed two pigs over the caption "Let's all root for Princeton," charges of dirty playing, and Harvard's attempt to schedule Michigan. Behind it all lay Harvard's patronizing attitude toward "those Princeton play-boys...
Fish is a commonplace lampoon of poor singers and non-sequitur lyrics. But There's a New Sound is an unrelenting and fairly unforgettable satire on such gimmicks as echo chambers and dog barks (as in Doggie in the Window). There's a New Sound depends on a Donald Ducklike cackle and a jigging country beat. Its chorus gets repeated five times (each time a tone higher) and its melody uses just two notes, "for simplicity...