Word: pranking
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...year's funniest prank. The hecklers jeer at love scenes, hoot at tacky special effects and pounce on every dumb line. Creator Joel Hodgson and his colleagues throw in savvy technical references ("I think we just flew through a dissolve," someone cracks during an airplane flight) along with a torrent of smart-mouthed ad libs. "How do we stand on fuel?" asks an onscreen astronaut. "I'm for it," comes the offscreen retort. In the tense few seconds before lift-off, a voice pipes up, "Did I leave the water running?" A scientist leans into a pair of earphones, trying...
...this some kind of a prank? Bruno...
...simply see this as a sick prank played by a few immature right-wing hacks on each other is to ignore the entire history of the Review and its persecution of those students and faculty who do not represent its rich, white, elitist worldview. As the president of the Dartmouth student assembly has said, the Review's writers have "tainted the image of this college." More than anything else, the result of the Review's actions has been to frighten away talented students and faculty. Like the American generals in Vietnam who had to destroy villages in order to save...
...ugly, awful, anti-Semitic prank," Pritchett told the Associated Press yesterday. "It caused a lot of hurt feelings. We at the Review are sickened by this...
...funny, as usual--Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III was not especially amused when he learned the planned launching of a new right-wing student magazine might be tied to a Harvard Lampoon prank. But Epps was used to the antics by that semi-secret social society--which allegedly publishes a humor magazine--and responded "It was irresponsible, but not surprising...We are not amused...