Word: folderols
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...tumbling out of all the doors and windows, each dragging his trousers behind him. The art of Laurel and Hardy has already enchanted millions, from Marshal Tito (who owns a library of their films) to Master Mimic Marcel Marceau. Laughing 20's should bring new converts into the folderol...
...Virna Lisi adorns a wrong number entitled The Telephone Call by Director Dino Risi (The Easy Life). Swathed in slippery folderol, Virna lets her eager husband sweat while she warms up the wire with Mamma, discussing status, family problems, and the bikini-clad trollop who inhabits a terrace apartment across the way. Virna is still jabbering as her mate steals over to find out for himself whether a girl can really be as wicked as all that...
Visible Disappointments. The celebrations in Nairobi featured a marathon run by Ethiopia's Olympic Winner Abebe Bikila, feathered tribal dancers, and Guinea's Ballets Africains, which offered only one disappointment-the girls wore brassieres. For all the festive folderol, Kenyans were less than delirious-they are waiting for the jam in jamhuri. A year of independence has brought more problems than prosperity. Kenyatta remains one of Black Africa's more responsible statesmen, and he retains some ties with the West-in one case literally: Kenya's latest postage stamp shows Jomo wearing his old school...
...jobs. In 1960 he was appointed a vice admiral and served in the top-brass "E" Ring of the Pentagon as deputy chief of naval operations for plans and policy. There he earned a reputation as a sharp-tongued perfectionist. Recalls one officer: "There was no loose thinking, no folderol permitted. He is a forceful, concise, meticulous...
...well known as a fulltime gangster (13 killings to his credit) and the sin czar who-fully protected by his congressional immunity -built Duque de Caxias, on Rio's northern outskirts, into a wide-open vice mecca famed for its brothels, gambling dens, brawling street fights and general folderol...