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...illustrations and captions seem prematurely aged and irrelevant. This year three exceptions prove that rule. George Price's angular eccentrics have been celebrated for 45 years; his latest work, Browse at Your Own Risk (Simon & Schuster; 128 pages; $7.95), is aptly titled. The risk is seizures of mirth that render the reader helpless. Price's pen and punch line are, as always, off the wall: "My mother doesn't even bother to come to the games," complains one halfback as he watches an old lady buck the line. Explains a widow to friends: "He didn...
...chooses such work is Lee Lorenz, cartoon editor of The New Yorker. In Now Look What You've Done (Pantheon; unpaged; $7.95), Lorenz employs little of Saxon's architectural draftsmanship or Price's mirth-shaking slapstick. But in the right mood, he can quote anything out of context for hilarious effect. Outside the witch's gingerbread house a sign reads: THIS STRUCTURE WILL BE TORN DOWN AND REPLACED BY A NEW 44-STORY COOKIE. The back of Santa Claus' sleigh bears the bumper stickers REGISTER COMMUNISTS, NOT FIREARMS...
...raiding, one has raised howls of hearty laughter among Wall Street insiders and others. It is the takeover by Kennecott Copper Corp. (1976 sales: $956 million), the nation's largest copper company, of the Carborundum Co., a Niagara Falls-based diversified firm (sales: $614 million). Reason for the mirth: Kennecott paid the astonishing price of more than $560 million, or $66 a share-twice Carborundum's book value. Many of Kennecott's nearly 72,000 stockholders were sclerotic over the deal. Some had hoped that the company would eventually distribute to them in the form...
Another Saturday night and you ain't got no putty? Fret not. Head for Music, Mirth and Madness at the Old Cambridge Baptist church, 1151 Mass. Ave. The two shows at 7 and 9 p.m. include jazz by Stan Strikland and his group Sundance, dance by Carolyn Brown, film and slides by Ken Brown, but no folk. I listed this because the flyer promises an "audience participation segment" in each show, which sounds kinky. Go, but don't tell me about...
Common Grounds at 3 Strange Brew Coffeehouse--Hilles Penthouse at 6 Chris Smither and Kevin Roth--Passim at 8:30 Music, Mirth and Madness--Old Cambridge Baptist Church at 7 and 9 Martha Heywood--Back Room at the Idler at 9 Larriat Lasso--Springfield Street Saloon at 9 Open Hoot--Sword-in-the-Stone...