Word: manqu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explains as he and a friend unload a pair of deer. "Hunting is one of the few things you can do these days that'll get you away from women," says a plaid-clad man who calls himself "just Charley." "Yeah," concurs his companion, a mustached, bandoleered desperado manqué who identifies himself (unnecessarily) as "Red." "Opening day is when we go off into the woods and talk dirty...
Ruth has done a one-night stand with Wagner in a London hotel and develops a fierce unrequited crush on Milne. She is, it seems, a romantic manquée who cannot recoup in sex what she has lost in love. While Rigg delivers all of Ruth's crisp-edged lines with hilarious asperity the feminine vulnerability of the role eludes her until she hears that Milne ha been machine-gunned to death. Then she rages in grief, waving a newspaper and asking what page in it was worth that price...
...finally locates a shop that actually under takes to fix small appliances. There, after waiting meekly in line for an hour or so, he/she sets Magico on a counter for the disdainful inspection of a stern young man who might be an oral surgeon or IRS agent manqué (22-J). Inspector will variously diagnose the appliance (22-K to 22-Z) as klunky, a lemon, mismanufactured, nonfunctioning, off-brand, plastic, quirky, rachitic, substandard, tinny, unredeemable, valueless, wonky, Xrated, Why-Fix-It? and zapped already...
...seduced by the "crackle of civilized conversation" inside the house and becomes a bedded and bored member of the Brown commune. As identity crises follow, the fields lie fallow. Meanwhile, Bumpers worries lest his consistently ineffectual advice will brand him not just a quack but "a quack manqu...
Herzog, 33, is a sort of social anthropologist manqué who has been prominent in the perennially fizzling resurgence of the West German cinema. It has been suggested that in Every Man Herzog is struggling to create a new metaphor for the state of modern Germany. This is one of those facile, cover all apologies, like saying an Italian film is a thinly disguised attack on the Roman Catholic Church, or a novel about contemporary Ireland reflects the agonies of civil war. It cannot save the movie from indistinction...