Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work has admittedly had its detractors. Pepys attended three productions and termed it "a silly play" and "one of the weakest plays that ever I saw." And one of Britain's finest reviewers, Max Beerbohm, branded it "hackwork" and found it "perfunctory and formless," "tedious and frigid." For my money, it's the supreme work of its kind. And Shakespeare, having at last approached perfection, never returned to the genre again, but proceeded to deeper and darker matters...
...Max out: complete maximum sentence
...spectrum of racing trainers, Stephens falls somewhere between the late Max Hirsch of King Ranch, a taskmaster who might run nine horses into the ground to produce one Triple Crown champion like Assault, and Rokeby Stable's Elliott Burch, whose patience with a thoroughbred is almost limitless. Possessing what Gaines calls "the intuitive knowledge of a great horseman," Stephens tailors training routines to fit each of his horses. With Cannonade, for instance, he has concentrated on long gallops, while scheduling generous periods of rest to keep the horse fresh...
...plot, which is totally predictable whenever it manages to make sense, shuttles Thomasine (Vonetta McGee) and Bushrod (Max Julien) from caper to caper with small regard for continuity. Yet, there are some nice, funny, affectionate moments between the two lead actors. She is always at him about something, like holding up their getaway from a bank robbery so she can snap a photograph. He is very wry, very careful about her, and although one can see the last ambush coming a long distance away, it is still a wrenching moment. McGee and Julien (he also wrote the script and coproduced...
...Colorado. In addition, he is involved with a plan to build a replica of an old Western town near Durango, Colo. No other bestselling author of westerns seems as well rooted in his material. After all, Zane Grey was a Manhattan dentist when he started to write, and Max Brand, when persuaded by his publishers to visit El Paso and soak up some color, hated it so much that he locked himself in his hotel room and read Sophocles...