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Article: Master of sideways satire stages a head-on attack
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- September 17, 2008
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JIM BECKERMAN, STAFF WRITER
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
09-17-2008
Master of sideways satire stages a head-on attack
By JIM BECKERMAN, STAFF WRITER
Date: 09-17-2008, Wednesday
Section: BETTER LIVING
Edtion: All Editions
WHO: Randy Newman.
WHAT: Singer-songwriter.
WHEN: 8 p.m. Friday.
WHERE: Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and 7th Avenue, Manhattan; 212-247-7800 or carnegiehall.org.
HOW MUCH: $35 to $89
Warning: Randy Newman's new album contains explicit lyrics.
No, not that kind.
In "Harps and Angels," his first album in nine years, the master of oblique, equivocal, does-he-or-doesn't-he-mean-it satire spells out his views bluntly.
"The leaders we have, while they're the worst that we've had, are hardly ...