Word: lampoon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine has a deal with Time-Warner to publish a 200-page parody in the fall of 2000, Lampoon President Matthew C. Warburton '00 said last week...
...Nine Lampoon editors are in Cambridge for the summer to write the book, which they expect to finish by the end of the summer...
...Lampoon--which Warburton said received a "robust advance" from Time-Warner--is hoping to tap into the millions of dollars spent on college preparation books every year...
...book won't be the first time the Lampoon has ventured into the college guide market. Twenty years ago, the organization released the Harvard Lampoon Big Book of College Life, which even today is holding steady at number 452,669 on the amazon.com sales list...
Warburton said the new parody is coming along smoothly--he boasted the Lampoon "could write a 1,000-page book at this point if we needed to"--but did admit that the project had created some tensions among the 'Poonsters sequestered for the summer in the organization's Bow Street castle...