Word: exhibitionistic
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...poet's lot is not a happy one. Exception: Edgar Albert Guest, whom most of his fellow poets do not regard as a poet at all. Typical modern U.S. poetry does not sell for a good reason: misnamed "lyric," it is actually introspective, exhibitionist, an effort on the poet's part to escape from intellectual nightmare. Witter Bynner's poetic cosmos is top-heavy with intellect but more objective than most; he does not get hysterical about it. His poems are not great but they are masculine. At 34 he summed up, in The New World, what...
...alive by artificial respiration in the dizzy scramble for circulation. Notable was the case of "Uncle Cocoa" Rodgers ("Daddy" Browning) and "Sugar Plum'' McGinnis ("Peaches" Heenan), whose queasy romance and parting were practically engineered in the Comet's editorial rooms. With the eager connivance of the exhibitionist Uncle Cocoa, the Comet's reporters wrote his and his wife's "own stories" of their honeymoon, contrived new bedroom stunts to keep them on the front pages. So, too, for need of a current "master mind of crime," a dullwitted hoodlum named "Bum" Cadman was built...
...scene is laid in post-War Germany. A revolutionary group upsets the oldtime government of a little town. There are two leaders: an aristocratic adventurer (Colin Clive of Journey's End) and a communist (laconic Pat O'Brien of The Up & Up). There is also an idealistic exhibitionist (Barbara Robbins) who is loved by them both. Most potent part of the drama comes when the Putsch fails, each revolutionist faces death in a different way. Because of its inexpert dramatization, the play can be safely recommended only to Bolithusiasts...
...criminal but against which there is no Paris law. One evening at the opera, Tenor Franz was in the midst of a favorite aria when out upon the stage from her box climbed a young person later identified as one Sylvia Peres of Italy. Apparently overcome by an exhibitionist impulse, she threw herself into a vigorous and not inept display of fancy dance steps. Tenor Franz stood speechless. The orchestra stopped, gaping. Mlle. Peres danced on with abandon, coming to a climax with one heel on Tenor Franz's shoulder. The police, unable to arrest her, lectured her severely...
...dance, lancers, waltz, one-step. For years he discountenanced the two-step. Frigidly he frowned on the fox trot when it appeared, though now he says: "It is just as possible to dance a fox trot with dignity and propriety as it is to dance a waltz." He abhors exhibitionist Negro dancing, believes it to be fit only for the stage. He admits that the waltz, one-step and fox trot constitute a trinity whence all variations come, and that the real arbiters of dance fashion are popular music writers...