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Ostensibly that's the spoof campaign in Of Thee I Sing, the 1931 Gershwin brothers hit that became the first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama. But is this joke election so much daffier than the real thing, with one contender playing the saxophone while another spouts platitudes about family values? Is a Vice President whom no one recognizes any more ludicrous than one who fluffs grade-school spelling...
...easily moved and naive public. But, in executing this satire, "Hero" seems to parody itself. Its attack on the media and popular conceptions of heroes is not so much barbed as it is simplistic. The comedy is as formulaic as the TV news shows it seeks to spoof, relying on a backbone of sight gags and one-liners (read: sound bites) for laughs...
Even as the school announced that theprotesters would face a disciplinary hearingbefore the Administrative Board, Clark foundhimself the subject of even more criticism.Students blasted the dean for not respondingadequately to a parody of murdered feminist legalscholar Mary Joe Frug in the spoof issue of theHarvard Law Review. The Harvard Communitywas shocked by what many called a misogynistic andinsensitive article in the Law Revue...
Various law professors have suggested that there is systematic discrimination in the hiring process. Professor of Canstitutional Law Lawrence H. Tribe pointed to the parody of an article by murdered feminist scholar Mary Joe Frug in the spoof issue of the Law Review as evidence of institutional sexism at the Law School...
...annual spoof edition of theHarvard Law Review, which includes a parodyof an article by murdered feminist legal scholarMary Joe Frug, touches off a wave of protest atthe Law School...