Word: show-off
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...likes of Al Sharpton, and then further insulted when Sharpton gets the best applause and biggest laughs from the crowd. (One waits for the moment when one of the other candidates - someone, please!--states the obvious: that Sharpton is not a "civil rights leader" but an offensive racial show-off who has no place on the stage...
...representative government. Political dissidents foolhardy enough to remain inside Iraq have a short shelf life. The Iraqi National Congress, an umbrella organization of exiled dissidents, is eager to return to Iraq but lacks any credibility inside the country. The president, Ahmad Chalabi, is widely seen as a corrupt show-off, and the organization’s last attempt to start an uprising against Saddam was an embarrassing failure. We will not find the next leader of Iraq chatting with Western reporters in a London restaurant...
...truth, though, is that we don't want him to come back because even for Michael Jordan, this would be an act of hubris so monumental as to make his trademark confidence twist into conceit. We don't want him back on the court because no one likes a show-off. The stumbling? That will...
...truth, though, is that we don't want him to come back because even for Michael Jordan, this would be an act of hubris so monumental as to make his trademark confidence twist into conceit. We don't want him back on the court because no one likes a show-off. The stumbling? That will...
...February, Aldea was the first DDR performer around to use a cane during a routine. More than 200 people packed the neon-lit Metreon showroom to watch the bespectacled dancer clamber onto the dance platform and coolly follow the game's flashing foot-pad squares while adding a show-off flair all his own. That swaggering, 180-beat-per-minute performance made him No. 1 in northern Cali-fornia. In previous contests Aldea has wowed judges with trademark moves, like a drunken kung fu impersonation - all the while following the requisite dance steps. "I've been to Japan...