Word: show-off
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...Often the loudspeakers and convertibles were there, but the crows just didn't realize that the candidate was in town and he was left to waving at people standing on the street here and there. Conceivably, it was possible to mistake the crew-cut, arm-waving mayor as some show-off teenager...
...raising the ante to a whole evening's entertainment, the pair also raise a question or two about this or that brand of it. They are so talented that the stunt and show-off side of their performance-letting the audience call the tune or enacting Dostoevsky in ten seconds-seems a mistake. At times, too, there is conflict between their manner, which is essentially a freewheeling one, and their matter, which demands the foreplanning of the revue sketch or blackout. Their eye is as deadly keen as their tongue can be brilliantly sharp; but when they impersonate, when...
...Colosseum are as subtle as those of a Greenland whale." As for the Renaissance, Rome and the Italians were impervious to it, says Menen, until the Arabians sparked "the rebirth of learning" by rediscovering mathematics and the great Greek texts. Italy's Renaissance princes kept scholars as show-off status symbols ("The scholars cost more than a dog, but not always more than a horse"). It was intellectually absurd, feels Menen, to call on Italy for a burst of Renaissance creativity after World War II. However, "the Italians, who are an obliging people, did their best and produced...
...Show-off lads who hurtle their old Mercs around too screechingly (turning on the afterburners) are High-school Harrys. Well-dressed and popular men are cool dads and hard cats. But the answer to every coed's prayer is a king or snow job. Many a coed, dating up a storm, gets snowed (or sewed) for an infatuated spell called snow time (if her king is too cool, she may have to shovel out the snow). During this romance, only a bad-mannered gnome or mullet would try to hook a snake (ask for a date with the snow...
Married. Jayne Mansfield, 24, show-off blonde cinemactress (Kiss Them for Me); and protein-packed, Hungarian-born Miklos ("Mickey") Hargitay, 29, otherwise "Mr. Universe of 1956"; both for the second time; in Portugese Bend (south of Los Angeles), Calif...