Word: showoffs
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...clown in Carol Channing sometimes upstages the actress, but this show thrives on her kind of showoff. David Burns may be the only man alive who can bark through his nose. Gower Champion keeps the choreography winging. His agile, toe-perfect dance company spends so much time off the ground that it should get flight...
Sing Out & Sonar. By his own description, he was always the class cutup and showoff. Raised in suburban Boston, where his father ran a chain of movie theaters, he was forever going to school with phony bandages on his head, explaining that his mother had hit him with a rolling pin or, after the 1938 hurricane, that a falling oak had beaned him. Something had to be done, or so it seemed, and eventually Morse was sent off to the lower school of the Christian Scientist Principia College in Illinois. Peccadilloes there were punished as sins. When Bobby stole...
...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...
...Money." Born and brought up in Chicago, Shelley, 32, says that even in his early days he played to the crowd. "As I grew older, I became more proficient at being a showoff. I was a pretty good loudmouth. I was the guy at parties. You know-that clod who determines the mood of the gathering. My whole act is confession. Every word I say, I'm admitting something...
...England's New Forest while strolling with Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey before World War I. At all times T.R. reserved his deepest contempt and his deepest rage for "the mollycoddle vote," "miserable little snobs" and "solemn reformers of the tomfool variety." They yelled back "Showoff!", "Blow-hard!", "Jingo!", "Cad!" T.R. was constantly embroiled in controversy and debate, and he reveled...