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He lampooned Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden, called for the resignation of Attorney General Edwin Meese, lambasted Bible-thumpers of the Christian right, urged vigilance against the Soviet threat, castigated the Japanese for hunting whales, and defended Jesse Jackson as a viable presidential candidate.† (source)
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And other lampoonery of such kind.† (source)
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Their laughter could be interpreted as a defense mechanism against seeing themselves lampooned on stage.† (source)
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The desiccation practices of jockeys were lampooned by turf writer Joe H. Palmer in a column written on jockey Abelardo DeLara: "DeLara has to sweat off about two pounds a day to make weight.† (source)
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The lampooning becomes faster, more frenetic.† (source)
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She cannot tell if she is stirred more by Durrfeld's ideas or by his physical presence—perhaps it is a mingling of both—but she feels an honest, heartfelt reasonableness in what he has said, and certainly he does not in the least resemble the paradigmatic Nazi who has been the object of so much savage lampooning rage at the hands of the tiny liberal and radical elements around the university.† (source)
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"It is not nice," Klaus said, "to lampoon someone's name like that."† (source)
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"And that is why I have sworn not to put pen to paper until my ideas either clarify or depart entirely; I have quite enough sins on my soul without putting dangerous, shallow epigrams into people's heads; I might cause a poor, inoffensive capitalist to have a vulgar liaison with a bomb, or get some innocent little Bolshevik tangled up with a machine-gun bullet—" Tom was growing restless under this lampooning of his connection with The New Democracy.† (source)
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Thus the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new master, and whispering in his ears sinister prophecies of coming catastrophe.† (source)
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Complete with hair slicked back and holding a glass shaped like a moose head, he had become Cousin Eddie from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.† (source)
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therefore, seeing no prospect of an accommodation between my brother and me, he gave his consent to my returning again to Philadelphia, advis'd me to behave respectfully to the people there, endeavor to obtain the general esteem, and avoid lampooning and libeling, to which he thought I had too much inclination;† (source)
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Bigwig strolled over to Pipkin, muttering a ribald Owsla lampoon.† (source)
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Indeed, he bore some grudge against the family and friends of Ardshiel, and before he was drunk he read me a lampoon, in very good Latin, but with a very ill meaning, which he had made in elegiac verses upon a person of that house.† (source)
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"I don't have time to ask you what 'lampoon' means," Bruce said.† (source)
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Following family tradition, they went to church on Christmas Eve and, between visiting and eating, watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and The Outlaw Josey Wales.† (source)
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They "beat" her, then lampoon the acrobatics of the Chinese opera, as she is made to kneel onstage.† (source)
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