Word: showoff
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...bird now has its own personal maid, whom it summons either by name or by making a noise like a buzzer. A noisily temperamental showoff, it breakfasts on hard-boiled egg yolks and orange juice, later polishes off a raw carrot and a slice of banana mixed with mockingbird seed. Good performances mean good meals of grapes. But this diet has to be regulated, because Raffles sometimes gets grape-happy and will not perform at all. Raffles sleeps in a nest of hot-water bottles. Being a tropical bird, it could not live otherwise...
...Saroyan touch leaves nothing ordinary; the film is electric with the joy of life. It gets this quality partly from the acting of Mickey Rooney, who, despite some persistent Andy Hardy mannerisms, is for once something besides a showoff. But the real star of The Human Comedy is five-year-old Jack Jenkins. When he startles a bearded scholar in the town library by suddenly poking his freckled, wistful face before the man's eyes, the film sings. Best scene is the one in which he learns the meaning of "I'm afraid." A human advertising robot...
Arrau's well-tailored brown suits, his irrepressible love for jewelry are deceiving. Far from a superficial showoff, he has the elements of true greatness. Though he has a prodigious technique, he does not slug the piano; he approaches his art with sober modesty, plays with fire but no unnecessary sparks...
...Hard-boiled Lieut. General Ben Lear is no nitwit and no showoff. But most of the many readers who wrote to TIME about The Memphis Incident thought his disciplinary action was too harsh...
...jitterbugging] was the same old showoff that mating animals have used far down the zoological line through the beasts of the fields, the birds of the air and the lightning bugs on a summer evening. At bottom it is deep calling unto the deep to keep the life stream flowing! How could it all be less than beautiful-this vast primeval panorama that flowed so slowly around the hall with its kaleidoscope of ever mingling colors and forms? . . . How could the slow, moving, billowy, syrupy music of the 'eighties fit into this new world picture? Youth had to construct...