Word: sagebrush
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...HERO (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The foible-filled private life of a TV-western idol who's absolutely terrified of horses and allergic to sagebrush, featuring Richard Mulligan...
...bronze bust rests in a grove of mountain alder and aspen, looking out over a valley of sagebrush and meandering brooks. It is a fitting spot for a monument to Ernest Hemingway-the area around Sun Valley, Idaho, where he spent the last three years of his life. The dedication came on what would have been the author's 67th birthday, and 300 friends gathered with his widow Mary and son Jack to pay their respects. "I looked around at all the pomp and circumstance," said Jack after the speeches, "and then I saw a fruit...
...material. A winsome Kiowa Indian prostitute (Janet Margolin) and a Cajun slattern (Suzanne Pleshette) lend immoral support before he finally corners and cripples the third and last gunman (Karl Maiden) after joining his band of cutthroats. Nevada Smith unreels in refulgent color against a sweep of rocky crags and sagebrush more magnificent than usual, as though Cinematographer Lucien Ballard had tried to fill the back ground with something that might endure longer than the coarse-grained melodrama up front...
This wild West spoof is stacked with enough sagebrush clichés to make it high Campfire. Runty Dingus Magee, who goes around building a reputation as a desperado by taking credit for other people's crimes, is sometimes a delightful composite of all western bad men; at other times, he is merely a hapless, scheming little schnook. As a result, parts of the book are rollickingly funny parody, while other parts are slapstuck...
...calls its rural hinterland. Fenstemaker goes with the job as red beans go with fatback. His instincts are generous, his vision broad, even if his political methods are not exactly taught in civics class. To ram a school bill through his ornery legislature takes all the wiles of a sagebrush Machiavelli...