Large language models (LLMs) are deep learning software models that attempt to predict and generate text, often in response to a prompt delivered in natural language. Some LLMs are multimodal, which means that they can translate between different forms of input and output, such as text, audio...
With his unusually large size and thick Southern drawl, Foghorn Leghorn has some of the best shade in the biz. Although his origin has become largely forgotten today, Foghorn is a parody of a comedy radio show character meant to lampoon Southern-fried politicians, according toThe Atlantic. Appe...
Ridiculed in a National Lampoon cartoon Entry at The Button Museum A photo of me at age 12 wearing my button Another reason they castigated the press is because cults have to train their members to distrust outside sources, since all sources outside the group (friends, family, the media)...
Being a good woman means always being submissive to men. Your spiritual value, your "purity", and your whole value as a person “comes from not just not having sex before marriage, but suppressing your entire sexuality,” Rowett says. ...
(Mark Rylance) an elder cannibal. It’s not the first time Lee’s killed; it started with his father’s death and ever since it's been the predominant means by which he secured human flesh to eat. "In his case, the specific trauma of murdering his father is a repeat cycle that ...
f. To use (something) as a means of safety or refuge: take shelter from the storm. g. To choose and then adopt (a particular route or direction) while on foot or while operating a vehicle: Take a right at the next corner. I downshifted to take the corner. 7. a. To undertake,...
didn’t help make him a revolutionary. When I joined theLampoon, 59 years later, a member pointed out to me the building’s stained-glass window in memory of Reed. It shows a silver hammer and sickle above Reed’s name and year, on a Communist-red background. Supposedly the window had...
National Lampoon's European Vacation, 1985 New Jack City, 1991 No Place on Earth, 2013 (HBO) Nobody, 2021 (HBO) On the Waterfront, 1954 Only Lovers Left Alive, 2014 (HBO) Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, 2016 (HBO) Pride and Prejudice, 1940 ...
(Christian or not) that the religiosity of Christmas has changed in, say, the last twenty years. My own neighborhood demonstrates this truth. We like to drive around and look at the beautiful and varied displays of lights – think National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. These days we are ...
The enormous popularity of McKuen’s poetry could be one of the reasons so many critics attacked it. As criticGary Morrishas written, “There aren’t many art forms where commercial success is relentlessly equated with aesthetic worth.”The National Lampoonmade an obvious joke of it in their ...