Word: exhibitionist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wound required 15 stitches, but Graham went back into the game, completed nine of ten passes, and the Browns finally won, 23-21. Next night, Graham was back on his TV show, bandaged face and all. Characteristically, he begged newsmen: "Don't represent me as a corny exhibitionist with a show-must-go-on attitude. Just explain that my mouth hardly hurts...
...George, Novelist Isaac Rosenfeld tells a memorable story of psychological exhibitionists at a Greenwich Village drinking party. When one of them, a girl named Gloria, turns into a physical exhibitionist by doffing all her clothes, good old George, the steadiest character in the room, saves what is left of decorum by making a circus-style departure that shakes even Gloria out of her pose...
Fancies & Dogma. His literary career began at Oxford with a book of verse, but he made his name as a walker. He tramped across the Alps from Lorraine to Rome, and his exuberant, youthful Path to Rome is a little classic of exhibitionist travel. For the next half-century, essays, history, epigrams, satires, fiction poured from his pen, sometimes at the rate of five volumes a year...
...inhibitions and no intellectual pretensions. He likes to lecture informally, sitting on the edge of a table, and his earnestness and homely jokes win audiences varying from philanthropists to student doctors. When he wants to press a point with parents, he's a shameless exhibitionist, twisting his face with surprised disgust to imitate a baby spitting out the food crammed into it by a too-resolute mother...