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Saul Steinberg is surely the best cartoonist since Picasso. Picasso was an artist who degenerated into a cartoonist. Steinberg is a cartoonist who has metamorphosed into an artist. The difference between them is intellectual honesty. Viva Steinberg...
That last characteristic will be shortlived. Ms. magazine has begun featuring a Bretécher cartoon each month on its back page, and others have been popping up in such disparate places as Esquire and Viva. A book-length collection of her work, National Lampoon Presents Claire Bretécher ($5.95), was published in the U.S. last month by 21st Century Communications. Ten volumes of her work have appeared in France, and recent ones have sold more than 100,000 copies each. To Roland Barthes, a leading French writer-philosopher, Bretécher is "the best French sociologist." Nouvel Observateur...
...promotion speaks unctuously of this reader as a healthy radical in the '60s who has joined a "new, but better Establishment." Penthouse sometimes sneaks in an exposé of the CIA among its sex manuals, and smirkily calls itself the magazine that "uncovers" things. Its sexy sister Viva proclaims: "The Viva woman leads the life the Cosmo girl reads about...
...Caracas, Carter delighted an audience of several hundred at the airport with a short speech in halting Spanish. Venezuelans said his accent was terrible, but his grammar ,was good and his meaning was clear. "Viva Venezuela," he declared in winding up his remarks...
...United States. The people in the pro circuit haven't shown enough interest in the American player," complained Shep Messing. That was six years ago, before the Bronx-born, Harvard-educated goalie became famous for eating glass, keeping a pet boa constrictor, posing nude for a Viva centerfold and playing on last year's championship New York Cosmos soccer team. Messing, 28, is no longer upset, having just signed a $100,000 per-year contract with the fledgling Oakland Stompers, making him the highest-paid American soccer player in history. "I didn't start playing soccer until...