Making a spectacle of oneself used to be considered bad behavior, now it's the national pasttime.
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In many Western languages acting, theatricality, operatic, melodramatic, and'making a spectacle of oneself'have negative, hostile, or belittling connotations.
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The noble obligation to make a spectacle of oneself lives on in the fabled theme parties given by Marylou Whitney, now in her 70s but still game.