In adulthood, he returned to the ministry and then got his revenge through this engrossing documentary film, from 1972, on which he collaborated with its directors, Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan, to deconstruct the showmanship of lucrative "big-time religion".
Then again, it would be hard to top the showmanship of the night before, when Mr. Crowell read, sang and signed at BookPeople. Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison, Mr. Crowell's Texas songwriting colleagues, shared a laugh when he reached for a pair of reading glasses with darkly tinted lenses.
(Hemmings) Automobile manufacturers often resort to over-the-top showmanship to market their cars.
Not to be outdone in the showmanship department when it comes to fundraising, Obama serenaded donors at his own charity gathering.
Mr Clegg has shown he has the élan, the showmanship, to shine in a televised debate with his more senior counterparts.
In his Philharmonic debut, Garrett Sorenson, an alumnus of the Metropolitan Opera's young artist program, upheld earlier positive impressions, although he doesn't yet have the showmanship to milk the old tenor chestnut "Dein ist mein ganzes herz" offered as "Yours is my heart alone," which would have gained from more grandstanding to go with Mr. Sorenson's powerful top notes.
It's easy to see the shift from Wilson's old-media conversation to Breitbart's new-media circus — from public intellectuals to talking heads, from social science to showmanship, from The Public Interest and Commentary to blogs and tweets and gossip — as a straightforward story of cultural decline.
The practice continues to this day, though rarely with the showmanship of a Bennett.
