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Virtually everybody around here these days knows about Counterpoint, the Harvard feature film where Professor John Finley '25 falls dead in a mock-tragic assassination scene. Information about it has been disseminated very, very successfully. Counterpoint has been doing the Harvard "circuit" lately--in a tentative way--and it's been playing to nearly sell-out crowds at a dollar a head so far. Even though the titles are still in the lab and the film is running without them. Even though there's no synchronised sound (prohibitively expensive) and parts of the picture are fuzzy and overexposed. Even though...
Wayne visted Harvard on January 15, and participated in a parade through Harvard Square, sponsored by the Lampoon. After the parade, Wayne and the Lampoon editors held a mock political debate at the movie theater...
...wigged blacks and silver-sprayed Afros, tranvestites and Amazons. The action is not in getting into the movie as much as it is in getting off on the movie together, in concert. And the getting off means a wisecracky hysteria, a grab your neighbor and howl with a mad mock raspy relief, as if coming down off some wild nightmare ride of your midnight hour. There isn't a quiet minute of the movie. You hear waves of "Jeesus, man, I can't believe that action. I mean can you dig that dis-gusting motherfucker...
Libya's ascetic ruler, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, is not known as a connoisseur of humor, especially when it is at his own expense. So a satirical article about him in Turin's La Stampa last month enraged him. "It seems," ran the mock-fan-magazine prose, "that he has an ulcer, it seems that he is a homosexual, that he sleeps on a mattress of tobacco leaves, that he has a harem of 48 wives in Switzerland." Libya immediately demanded that the article's coauthors be dismissed from La Stampa, one of Italy's most respected...
...doctors still thrive and sorcery is practiced. The cargo cults, a weird blend of religious faith and economic frustration, claim 60,000 members. They believe that they can acquire such desirable Western luxuries as radios and canned beer by practicing certain rites like assembling on mountaintops, where they construct mock airplanes and await the gifts from heaven...