Word: dingus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles Portis, 34, is an Arkansas newspaperman who has fashioned a pop anti-western in the best tradition of Cat Ballou and the Ballad of Dingus Magee. For openers, his hero is a heroine: Mattie Ross, a sassy, 14-year-old Arkansan whose chief protective girdle is a dry Bible-belt faith, and who is out to avenge the murder of her daddy back in the 1870s...
...BALLAD OF DINGUS MAGEE by David Markson. 202 pages. Bobbs-Merrill...
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...