Allenesque

comparative more Allenesque · superlative most Allenesque

1. Reminiscent of Woody Allen (born 1935), American actor, writer, director, comedian, and playwright.

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   By the 1980s, what I’ll call the Allenesque Jew/Shiksa split was entrenched: Jewish = nonathletic, brainy, neurotic, pasty, dark-haired, profoundly unhealthy parental relationship, usually from the New York area; shiksa = healthy, Waspy, carefree, blonde, supportive (if judgmental) parents, from the Midwest or from a home that might as well be in the Midwest.

   2013 March 3, Menachem Kaiser, “Anti-non-Semitism: An Investigation of the Shiksa”, in Los Angeles Review of Books