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Article: Gag predictions every New Year's, even in desperate times.(Commentary)(Editorials)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
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Editor's note: Tom Lehrer once said that with the re-election of Richard Nixon, satire had lost all meaning. The creator of such enduring classics as "Pollution," "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park," "Werner von Braun" (" `Once I get rockets up, who cares vhere dey come down / Dat's not my department,' said Wener von Braun") and of course "Smut" ("As the judge remarked the day that he acquitted my Aunt Hortense, / in order for it to be smut / it must be ut- / terly without redeeming social importance") then packed up his piano and went back to his day job as a professor of mathematics.
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