Word: lampoon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Travolta yesterday declined an invitation from the Harvard Lampoon to attend a reception nominating "Grease" as the Lampoon choice for worst movie of the year, Michelle Cohan, production secretary for John Travolta Productions, said yesterday. The first line of her response to the Lampoon stated, "Unfortunately, due to his heavy schedule, John Travolta will not be able to accept your invitation...
...Lampoon has not yet received Cohan's letter. "We're working on it," a Lampoon member, who wished to remain anonymous, said last night in reference to the invitation...
Cohan said the Lampoon's letter to Travolta stated: "Harvard University has a tragic situation on its hands. Harvard students know their way around Spencer's theories, but they don't know their way around a dance floor...
...graduate of a small, fraternity-sorority-oriented college (Marietta College), I want to thank the people at National Lampoon for creating Animal House and thus providing me with a visual-aid supplement to my overly ambiguous résumé. They captured on film what I couldn't on paper...
...Harvard Lampoon--In a weird building on Mt. Auburn St. lives the Lampoon, a bunch of guys who think they're really funny. Usually they aren't. A lot of people on campus hate the Lampoon. Their humor, if you can call it that, tends to range from preppie-obnoxious to racist, but they do have occasional bursts of brilliance. The problem is that they're generally convinced of their genius. Two years ago, after a series of racist items in the magazine (how does a cover showing the statue of John Harvard with a black child shining its shoes...