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...From Playboy Magazine's "Women of the Ivy League" issue to Harvard's splashy 350th celebration, it was an unusually unusual year for the University community in 1986. Here's a tongue-in-cheek review of some of the year's best kept secrets...
...long lines at the Picadilly Filly on any given weekend night may have tipped off the editors of Playboy. Or maybe it was the near-complete absence of a social life at Harvard...
...maybe they were simply printing something that only a few students have been able to confront about their lives in this part of Cambridge: MIT parties harder than Harvard. So does Boston University--according to a list of the "Top 40 Party Colleges" in the January issue of Playboy. Harvard didn't even get an honorable mention...
Wayne Duvall, compiler of the results for Playboy, explained that the researchers went to a cross-section of schools in each state. There they asked students to list the schools, besides their own, that they thought partied the most. Then the schools most often mentioned were examined for party atmosphere and students known to be very "socially active" at those schools were tracked down. Candid, anonymous remarks by these students were the basis for the final selections...
Larson credits Don Martin of Mad magazine, George Booth of The New Yorker and B. Kliban, famed for his cat cartoons, with influencing his style; his work also seems informed by the bloated grotesqueries of Gahan Wilson (Playboy, The New Yorker). Nonetheless, Larson's vision is like no other cartoonist's. If a single theme animates his work, it is that man, for all his | achievements, is just one species on earth, and not always the wisest or strongest one. His prehistoric cave dwellers and chunky matrons with beehive hairdos and sequined glasses are vulnerable and foolish, while his cows...