Word: show-off
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McKellen, who comes from "a comfortable, comforting, loving family" in Britain's industrial North, departed Cambridge with a penchant for theatrical excess that earned him quick notice and a few severe warnings. One reviewer called him "a show-off," and McKellen took the criticism to heart. He started his own troupe, the Actors' Company, in part to counter this "tendency to act in an overly individual way." Later he accepted Nunn's repeated invitations to join the R.S.C., where he further modulated his gifts and moderated his flamboyance. Says Nunn: "I think Ian matured, and his presence...
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Green, who calls himself "a born showman," an "unconscionable show-off" and "charming," is visiting Harvard this week as part of the Learning From Performers series. Although he is best known for his work in musical film. Green spoke on the difficulties of writing music for dramatic film...
...George Bernard Shaw called "sensitive, cheerful and profane; liars, braggarts and hustlers." A would-be tycoon so crotchety and bullheaded that he could give little credit to the ideas of others; so inept in business matters that he lost control of the immensely profitable companies he founded. An incurable show-off and self-promoter who circulated so many myths about his personality and accomplishments that 48 years after his death historians are still struggling to separate legend from fact...
Skora had not simply built a robot; any science fair show-off can do that. He had built a better robot. At 6 ft. 8 in. and 275 lbs., Arok looks something like an air-conditioning duct on roller skates. But this man of steel can lift 125 lbs. dead weight, bend 45° at the waist and locomote forward or backward at a top speed of 3 m.p.h. Arok can vacuum the rug, take out the trash, serve a tray of Dr. Peppers' (Skora does not drink hard liquor...