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...Rise Club has Joe Chambers through Saturday. With Chambers is Ray Mantilla on conga, Larry Young on organ and Jeremy Steig on flute. Rise has really been getting the good acts lately...
This fiftieth anniversary Album of Drawings (an overly pretentious title for a not-at-all middle-aged collection) juxtaposes Booth, Lorenz, Saxon and Koren with Thurber, Arno, Hokinson and Irvin, along with William Steig, Charles Addams and Whitney Darrow, to chronicle a half century of the idiosyncracies of the American species. If some of the cartoons seem to depend too heavily on the actual social conditions of their time, we can rely on our memories and our knowledge of human nature to see their humor...
...William Steig's bitingly wistful little cartoons bears the caption...
...will review my thoughts just once more." A figure, Steig's version of The Thinker, sits slumped at the end of a labyrinth of drunkenly tilting stakes. His eyes stare out of focus in the general direction of his knees. His forehead wears its frown like a cross...
Amos & Boris by William Steig. Unpaged. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $4.50. A seagoing rodent and a whale sign a long-term mutual-assistance pact in a variation on the old lion-and-the-mouse caper. In an off year, the year's best...