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Since most of the pictures have never been seen before, the joint exhibition has an automatic excitement. But more significantly, it helps correct the threadbare notion that Grosz stopped being an important artist when he moved to the U.S. His ruthless portrayals of Germans made him the greatest satirist of his time; he drew and painted America with sympathy and even love. When the critics saw the change, they handed down the verdict that Grosz without satire was Grosz without stature. What the critics failed to see-and often still do-is that Grosz was much more than a satirist...
...tragedy of the zamindar Director Ray involves much more than the ruin of one man. He is a skillful social satirist, and he contrives sardonic contrasts between the haughty old-rich and the pushy new-rich. He is a gifted graphic artist in whose visions the physical and the metaphysical converge-late in the film, the music room, the locus of disaster in the zamindar's life, is suddenly unshuttered and exhales into the pallid twilight a black flock of bats that flutter soundlessly above the old man's head like powers of darkness portending his death...
...wonder Steve Karmen, a folksong satirist, draws guffaws in Holly-woBd- with his recording of a not very funny take-off on Gimme Dat Ol'-Time Religion...
...Chun King Chinese food and Contadina tomato paste ("Eight great tomatoes in that little bitty can?") into the stomachs of consumers, and now Stan is going to try to move some of the consumers into church. His newest client: the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Says Satirist Freberg, who earns about $500,000 a year by gently kidding his employers' products: "They wanted me to try to sell Christianity, actually, and I said I thought we would reach more people if we narrowed it down to God." Freberg decided that blending humor and heaven was a real challenge...
...been stirred up to require new national elections soon. While most Austrians retain mellow feelings toward the Habsburgs, they would just as soon not be bothered by Otto's problem. "Why should we go back to where we finished 40 years ago?" asked Helmut Qualtinger, famed Vienna cabaret satirist. "I think that as a matter of taste, Otto would not want to come back-not if he loves his country...