Word: sauls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...completely different way, Saul Steinberg delves into our subconscious at the Institute of Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston St. in Boston. His cartoons in the New Yorker have geometrically-formed people marching across landscapes of plotted-out rectangles and thinking of endless variations on the number "5" or other problems of the human condition. Through June...
...INSPECTOR by Saul Steinberg. Unpaged. Viking. $10. Something less than a genius who doodles but something more than a doodler of genius, Steinberg goes on defying categories, preconceptions and occasionally-perspective. In this, his sixth book of drawings in three decades, hints of satire flicker over images of parades, masks, street corners and architecture. Is Steinberg making some point about bureaucratic conformity, say, or cultural cacophony? Perhaps. But too much interpretation spoils the fun. What interpretation is needed, anyway, of an artist who can symbolize what a dog thinks and render a woman's conversation as a series...
...according to the second book of Samuel did Israel's King David lament the deaths of Saul and Jonathan at the hands of the Philistines. Last week an Israeli announcer solemnly intoned those mournful lines before announcing that 1,854 of his countrymen had died in the Yom Kippur War. Although Israelis were prepared for high casualty figures, the magnitude of the toll compared with the 803 fatalities of the Six-Day War nonetheless stunned them. Nearly every household in the nation of 3,200,000 has suffered or knows a loss in the war. Said Yehezkel Shemesh...
HEARTLAND by SAUL MALOFF 279 pages. Scribners...
...Condominium, necessity takes a sad and more familiar form. Phil Preminger is a 37-year-old unpromising academic and a heart patient. Like Saul Bellow's famous character, Preminger is a dangling man. But he also gets a chance to seize the day. When his father dies, he seems driven by some homing instinct to move into the dead man's condominium apartment in Chicago. It is a terrible mistake. The young man finds himself disastrously enmeshed in the crotchets and suffocating propriety of the older residents. The story proves that Elkin, one of America's most...