Word: manquee
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A writer manque serving as his own narrator, he deliberately imposes no literary controls on history ("I offer little more than a disordered compilation of rough notes"); his unconscious is his only guide. Hence, even before Worthington gets to recall key cameos of himself-as a boy who once foolishly...
Carroll Baker is also something new in sex bombs in that she can act quite respectably; but her background at least has the familiar, tempestuous sound of some of the biographies of her predecessors. Her father is a farmer manque who now runs an appliance store in Pittsburgh. "Our household...
Pretzeled David. Even though their act is pretty much played out, NBC's Chet Huntley and David Brinkley still managed to be more diverting and amusing than the other so-called anchor men. Brinkley pretzels himself in an attempt to give the impression that he is doing his best...
Up she went to the Maiden Bridge Playhouse near Albany for a summer of the real thing-washing out toilets, changing scenery, riding a goat manque across the stage in Teahouse of the August Moon. Back home, she ushered in Broadway theaters during Saturday matinee and evening performances. About then...
"In a few days," said Françoise (Bonjour Tristesse) Sagan, "it will get better.'' That was five months ago in Monte Carlo, and since then Françoise's ballet Le Rendez-Vous Manque (The Broken Date) has been panned from Switzerland to Scollay Square. Nevertheless...