Word: exhibitionistic
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...George, Novelist Isaac Rosenfeld tells a memorable story of psychological exhibitionists at a Greenwich Village drinking party. When one of them, a girl named Gloria, turns into a physical exhibitionist by doffing all her clothes, good old George, the steadiest character in the room, saves what is left of decorum by making a circus-style departure that shakes even Gloria out of her pose...
Fancies & Dogma. His literary career began at Oxford with a book of verse, but he made his name as a walker. He tramped across the Alps from Lorraine to Rome, and his exuberant, youthful Path to Rome is a little classic of exhibitionist travel. For the next half-century, essays, history, epigrams, satires, fiction poured from his pen, sometimes at the rate of five volumes a year...
...inhibitions and no intellectual pretensions. He likes to lecture informally, sitting on the edge of a table, and his earnestness and homely jokes win audiences varying from philanthropists to student doctors. When he wants to press a point with parents, he's a shameless exhibitionist, twisting his face with surprised disgust to imitate a baby spitting out the food crammed into it by a too-resolute mother...
...Cleveland, there was a wake. After 113 days of squatting on a platform above his confectionery store "until the Indians got back in first place," Exhibitionist Charley Lupica (TIME, Aug. 19) was invited down last week by Bill Veeck, exhibitionist president of the Cleveland baseball club. In the mathematics of the 1949 pennant race, the Indians, World Series winners a year ago, were dead. To mourn the sad occasion, Veeck, crowned with a silk hat but still without a tie (he never wears one), drove a horse-drawn hearse into Municipal Stadium with all the Indians trailing along as pallbearers...
Actually, there were two Millers: one was a foul-mouthed exhibitionist who admitted his reputation for using "obscene language more freely and abundantly than any other living writer in the English language"; the other was an exuberant writer with a gift for describing the vividly seamy...