Word: spoofed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Business too often takes the attitude that the press must cooperate or be guilty of an antibusiness attitude," says the Chicago Sun-Times's deep-digging Financial Editor Austin Wehrwein, who frequently writes columns on the mythical Pfutzer Foundry & Finished Tool Co. (cable address: PFFT) that not only spoof business shenanigans and shibboleths, but satirize the brand of handout punditry that characterizes most business-page stories...
Lucas Hoving and Lavina Nielsen danced their own "Satyros," a hilarious spoof devised for a frothy Poulenc trio for piano, bassoon and oboe (the latter exquisitely played by Robert Freeman '57). The piece de resistance was Limon's own "Emperor Jones," a 20-minute ballet based on the O'Neill play. The choreography is inspired and Pauline Lawrence's costumes superb. The prolific Heitor Villa-Lobos composed the magnificently frenetic score. This ballet concert marked a tremendous improvement over the one presented last year...
Throughout their act, they spoof their own material, run in gag numbers kidding singing commercials and California's ad-mad mortuaries: "At Goldheim's you can lie on your crisp, moisture-free bier and know that your bier is Goldheim's, the dry bier...
...oldest opera presented was Livietta and Tracollo by Pergolesi. This work was originally written to be performed between the acts of a grand and tragic opera; now only the light-hearted and melodic spoof survives. The production, staged and adroitly conducted by Arthur Schoep, was acted in a spirit of god fun by all, and well sung by Pauline Gingras and William Nethercut...
Patience is not most distinguished either musically or lyrically among the works of the great Gilbert and Sullivan. But the Harvard G and S players have been able to over-ride with enthusiasm and charming verve the inadequacies and datedness of their material. On the whole, this spoof at Victorian artsycraftsiness comes off very well...