Word: shane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOWN DEAD by Shane Stevens. 236 pages. Morrow...
This first novel, which relates eight days in King's life, contains enough action-both lethal and sexual-to flesh out a sociological study of Harlem, and enough profanity to outfit a platoon of Marines. Shane Stevens has invented an idiom for his swaggering teen-agers that gives pungency to King's occasional meditations. On school, for example: "Everyone shouting and screaming and nobody care about what they is going on. But at least it somewhere to stay away from when they make you go." And on the purpose of fighting gangs: "In this bizness you got have...
...requires considerable daring and talent for a writer to render the nuances and idiom of Harlem life. Shane Stevens, 28, deserves praise for his achievement, especially because he is a white man. His Harlem mood, at times funny but mostly depressing and barbed with the hopeless hostilities of the ghetto people, will shock and sober white readers. As to the authenticity of character and action, hardly anyone outside Harlem can really judge...
Divorced. David McCallum, 33, Scottish actor, co-star of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; by Jill Ireland, 31, sometime actress (TV's Shane); on uncontested grounds of mental cruelty (she testified that he caused her to break out in a rash); after ten years of marriage, three children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...PROFESSIONALS. The liveliest western dust-up since Shane stars Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Woody Strode and Robert Ryan as four nail-hard professional gunmen hired at $10,000 apiece to find an errant wife (Claudia Cardinale) and return her to her husband...