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...Hockey "I'll put my personal integrity on the line on this." Experience: Employment and Workplace Relations Minister since 2007 The son of an Armenian immigrant, Hockey has been salesman for the contentious Work Choices legislation since rising to the portfolio this year. The jolliest of Howard's ministers, who once parodied himself publicly as the cartoon ogre Shrek, Hockey has promised to resign if Labor predictions of further changes to industrial relations laws under a Howard government prove correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Frontbenchers | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

Carpenter could be the jolliest A student at a Seven Sisters college. For A Place in the World (Columbia) she's written tunes that are instantly likable--so shoot her--and reminiscent of early Beatles or rollicking Motown. But she twists the old feelings even as she exploits them. The perky beat and ersatz-inane lyrics of I Want to Be Your Girlfriend tell you that even for mature women in the '90s, love can feel like a teen crush, pulsing to a Buddy Holly-style jingle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: IRONIC, DON'TCHA THINK? | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

...Howdy, Mike! I'm Lars Anderson!" Undoubtedly the jolliest man I have ever met. My spirits surged...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Welcome to the Minor Leagues | 7/17/1990 | See Source »

Whitelaw strides to center stage, waves the bright aquamarine binder that holds the text of Enough and warns, "Look closely. It's about the jolliest piece of color you're likely to find in a Beckett evening." It is indeed. In Footfalls, Whitelaw plays a tattered woman patrolling, ever so slowly, a slab of light about the size of a cemetery plot. Into and beyond the grave, she relives her days feeding and changing her aged mother, dominating the mother with her dogged servitude, then slipping into reverie to imagine her self the sad heroine of a gothic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Spook Sonatas | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...play seems, at first glance, to be as innocent and venerable as Mr. Cinders-or at least as Angela Brazil's novels of the 1930s, in which plucky girls in their blue gym slips got into oodles of "scrummy" jams while defending the honor bright of Grangewood, "the jolliest school in England." As it happens, Denise Deegan's Daisy Pulls It Off is neither a revival nor a musical (though it boasts a catchy school song by one "Beryl Waddle-Browne," an anagram for the show's producer, Andrew Lloyd Webber). It is a sparkling, spanking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Looking for the Real Thing | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

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