Word: gableish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will ever have to be told how to read Hemingway; he saw to that. Most of what we have been told, in fact, in the last three weeks and the last thirty-five years, has nothing to do with the novels and the stories that count. The Gableish-looking hero who collected wives and bruises and buffalo horns, the bewhiskered old Aficionado may have been the same man who wrote The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"--but it doesn't seem to matter...
...After junking the car, the four sprint through a "dense and umbrageous forest" of Douglas fir, and the sheriff's gun changes hands at least three more times. One hood tumbles to his death from a scenic precipice; the steely moll turns to mush under Janssen's Gableish charms; the other hood, played by Actor-Comic Frank (Bells Are Ringing) Gorshin, gets his in a forest fire...
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