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...Sadly, though, the guide too often falls back on the staples of Lampoon humor we're used to: self-referential inside humor and masturbation jokes, and sometimes even a combination of the two (which may help us account for at least some of what goes on within the Lampoon's walls). For instance, page 78's entry for The Etten Family Home Schooling College named, of course, after 'Poonster Kevin Etten '00, who presumably wrote the section includes a category for 'onanism': 'From masturbating to masturbating with your parents in the next room to masturbating quickly when your parents...
With the college guide parody, though, the rest of us get to be in on some of the inside jokes, which is a nice change. For instance, part of the parody college roommate questionnaire on page 120 reads, 'I want a roommate that is considerate, flexible, amiable, open-minded and Natalie Portman.' Which is extra funny to us, because Natalie Portman goes to Harvard. Get it? And while Harvard comes in first in the rankings parody, Yale finishes at 10,347. Du-huh. That warm feeling you get reading a joke in the guide and knowing that...
...credit, more of the latest Lampoon effort than usual is funny on its own. But to get some of the gags you would have to take the same classes at Harvard as the students who wrote the book. The boys at the 'Poon certainly know what they're doing, though: making obscure references the basis for their humor inoculates them against the common charge that they are just not very funny. But, they can retort, the incomprehensible article in five-point type of the last issue was simply hilarious if you've read Gravity's Rainbow. You haven't read...
...they go about with their daily lives. He photographs people for several reasons-it allows him to get closer to his subjects and, as he says, 'allows you to take time out to think about people passing by, giving you a certain kind of intimacy with them, even though you are just shooting a picture.' This intimacy with his subjects certainly comes through in Mason's pictures. It is also apparent, after seeing his work, that he considers those he photographs to be more than just subjects - they are involved participants in his artwork...
...England's history to establish a large pool of public funds specifically directed at the theater, the entire dramatic community seems to still be in a state of shock at the now 20-year old cuts that Margaret Thatcher's administration made on the Labor Party's bounty. And though funding has been on the rise again since the Blairs moved to Downing Street, there remains an obvious sense of trepidation in the decisions of London's producers and directors. For a nation that could celebrate the new millennium with anything as audacious as the theme park-cum-history museum...