Word: mens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plentiful action consists largely of Robbie, wired and miked like a walking Radio Shack, attempting to bribe judges while antsy G-men tape the seductions from parked vans. The distinguished targets come from all walks of life and can be sympathetic inversions of stereotypes. Judge Barnett Skolnick is an elderly, good-natured dimwit who spouts stage Yiddish. Sherman Crowthers is a massively built black jurist who paralyzes attorneys with his battering intelligence. Exaggerated characters? Yes. Caricatures? Never...
...authentic bunkhouse and three squares a day of hearty grub. The week may be spent at the vast Three Sisters Ranch in the Arizona desert (October through May) or the Powder River Experience on the Wyoming plains (June through September). King, his wife Betty and other family members welcome men and women who aspire to the cowboy life. Many are from abroad; many are well past age 50. Some have recently bought horses--or even a ranch--without knowing much about either. When Ken Jelden retired at 70 after a long career with Calavo Growers in California, his wife gave...
...NEEDS MEN...
Back when women were considered the weaker sex, it wasn't easy for them to learn and practice the outdoor skills men like Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett used to survive in the wilderness. Now it is. In weekend workshops organized by Becoming an Outdoors-Woman, a woman can acquire sufficient know-how to become a mountain woman--or, if she prefers, a desert, valley or ocean woman. Because BOW's courses are offered in 44 states and nine Canadian provinces, she can hunt elk in Montana on one weekend and wild turkeys in Wisconsin, or deer in Texas...
...guide sits in the middle and rows. "They won't catch a thing," says Chouinard, "because they're dry casting. Besides, you don't need a boat to fish this goddamn river. All summer I haven't seen one other person walking the river." Chouinard is dead on; the men don't catch a single fish among them...