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...China, 1982 will be remembered as the year of the dog and in the U.S. as the epoch of the cat. Ronald Searle's Big Fat Cat Book (Little, Brown; $12.95) may seem a late entry. In fact, the English satirist has been cartooning cats for decades, mocking their uncivilized sophistication, their hypocrisy and cunning. While some of his furry vamps are overarch (Lady Catterley, Catahari), the vast majority of his scenes and creatures are instances of energy and wit. After examining the ferocious splashes of color in "Rat Race" or the haunting perspectives of "Displaced Persons," cat owners...
...rock doesn't satisfy Ma, Pa, and Gramps, there are other fine paperbacks. The People's Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau (who else?) is another oversized collection of past cartoons; these excerpts from 1978-80 are particularly interesting because they are accompanied by previously muted comments from the satirist. Poland: Solidarity: Walesa is a well-written study of Poland during recent years, including a discussion of the current strife. A host of photographs accompanies the authoritative writing of three veteran journalists...
...earliest published fiction was in the form of brief, sharply satirical dialogues. The two dialogues included in the Baby in the Icebox collection, "The Hero" and "Theological Interlude," both originally appeared in the early '20s in The American Mercury, a magazine run by Cain's friend, the satirist H.L. Mencken. Cain overloads these pieces with his own impression of lower middle class dialect. His satire of the characters is not balanced (as it is in his later work) with compassion for them, and the pieces show only too clearly for what they are--raw, condescending attempts by an educated...
...When Satirist Ambrose Bierce proposed that wry definition of the charnel trade at the turn of the century, it was still possible to be buried for under $25. Today that sum would barely buy a spray of flowers. Last July, in response to charges of price gouging, the Federal Trade Commission ordered undertakers to provide price lists for their services. Now the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver is offering bargain burials...
Mark Russell, 48, Washington political satirist, on the Reagan Cabinet: "They're the kind of guys that come home from a white-tie affair and slip into a black...