Word: show-off
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...preferred the company of his sturdy Dutch countrymen. He once chose to paint his bride Saskia in the trappings of classic mythology, but the result (opposite), now owned by Leningrad's Hermitage, is basically a plain young Dutch girl, garlanded with field flowers and dressed in the rich, show-off satins and brocades that so delighted Rembrandt at Amsterdam's public auctions...
...pretty picture, indeed, of a nasty little boy and later of a bigoted show...
...week's drama was partially redeemed by CBS's Best of Broadway, which revived George Kelly's 1924 Broadway hit, The Show-Off, as a starring vehicle for Comedian Jackie Gleason. As Aubrey Piper, a vainglorious blowhard who enchants his wife but drives her family daffy, Gleason was playing a role not too far removed from his own Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners. He posed and postured as man of affairs, thinker, dude and cocksure authority on everything from high finance to socialism. As his embattled mother-in-law, Hollywood's Thelma (Rear Window) Ritter...
Best of Broadway (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Show-Off, with Jackie Gleason, Thelma Ritter...
Freshman coach Floyd Wilson worries about this because "Bill does these things well and does them naturally. If he stops doing them because the crowd thinks he is a show-off, the team will suffer. I have told him to play the game he is capable of and nothing less...