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...Gaulle's Nose. Is Astérix meant to be De Gaulle? "I cannot stop people from seeing political analogies where I merely intended to be funny," says Goscinny. Yet a recent cartoon in the French weekly Le Canard Enchaîné pictured Astérix with De Gaulle's nose; he and Premier Georges "Pompidouix" are shouting "Amérix go home!"-not to Romans and their "S.P.Q.R." but to foreign troops with "U.S." on their helmets. Le Monde Columnist Robert Escarpit explains the Astérix cult this way: "These invincible Gauls, barricaded in their...
...APPLE TREE spoofs Adam and Eve and other celebrated romances, including the requited love of a slavey for Hollywood stardom. Despite the saucily mocking presence of Barbara Harris, the evening consists of flabby satire, cartoon comedy and plop...
...GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Everybody out to the pumpkin patch to join Linus in his annual wait for the arrival of the Great Pumpkin. Also starring in this animated cartoon special; Lucy, Snoopy and Charlie Brown...
...Apple Tree has brought forth three moldy figs: a musical trio of satirical skits starring Barbara Harris and Alan Alda. Good satire is a difficult form of pertinent irreverence. Flabby satire, with tired targets like Tree's, is unearned derision full of cartoon comedy and plop...
...Junior Show. The institution surrounds itself with intriguing accoutrements--from the demurely bizarre construction of the Alumnae Hall Auditorium to the program filled with class and dorm ads which conceal their identity behind visual puns or signatures hidden almost as well as the "Nina" in a Hirschfield cartoon. If the Show's pace is ever too slow, you can try to puzzle out the ads or memorize the name of the Junior class tree (Crimson king maple...