Word: showoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...series of flashbacks to go at the hero's question: "Oh, Ross. How did I become you?" As Guinness of Arabia, Sir Alec is at his subtle, suggestive best, and even the physical resemblance is striking. In his radicalism, there is more than a hint of the showoff; in his sophistication, a climber's cunning; in his humility, the prima donna's beady eye. Frightened of latent homosexuality, he shrinks from being touched, can shake hands only with effort. Yet his Lawrence retains the essential nobility of the desert warrior, proudly asserts that "the only...