Word: zane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sexually Irresponsible. The plot is thin. A young man named Louie (Zane Lasky) has impregnated five women, sired nine children by them and cast their support on the bowed back of the U.S. taxpayer. A black deliveryman, Lewis (Cleavon Little), is mistaken for this paragon of sexual irresponsibility, and his favors are courted by a family whose minds and hearts consist of liberal mush...
...from 1925 to 1950; in Monterey, Calif. A learned, liberal Virginia-born newspaperman, Chenery led the ailing Collier's to a notable comeback by taking vigorous editorial positions (the magazine was an early champion of Repeal) and recruiting big-name writers-H.G. Wells, Sinclair Lewis, Ring Lardner, Zane Grey-at top dollar; in 1939 he signed F.D.R. to a $75,000-a-year contract for regular contributions...
...Riders of the Purple Sage and Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen start things off Friday in what is probably the best concert of the weekend. The New Riders, a Grateful Dead spinoff group named after a Zane Gray Western novel, play laid-back countrified rock with lots of pedal steel guitar...
Never mind that it often seems a parody of Zane Grey. MacLean's tale gleefully highballs along at a brisk, cinematic clip. Funny touches are provided by the English understatements of MacLean's Pinkerton-man hero. He is the sort of chap who, on examining an arrow embedded in the heroine's shoulder, might mutter, "Mmmm, Apache, I shouldn't wonder...
...spends many days with his family hiking over mountain trails in California and 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...