Word: jollyness
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'Twas the season to be generous, if not jolly, on Capitol Hill. In its preholiday I dash toward adjournment, the lameduck Congress bestowed dozens of baubles, bangles and beads on the folks (and special-interest groups) back home. The result, fumed Silvio Conte, ranking Republican on the House Appropriations...
Sex! Horror! Humor! Fairground Art (Abbeville; 312 pages; $85) offers 1,100 illustrations (700 in glorious color) of European and American carnival equipment and advertising, many of which deserve an exclamation mark. Authors Geoff Weedon and Richard Ward provide a pictorial history of their eye-catching subject, from the primitive...
Ossie Jolly, 34, had been out of work for 2½ years after being laid off as a Chicago janitor. In late August he tuned in to Job Line, a TV show that lists employment opportunities and gives job-hunting tips. Within a week he was hired as a driver...
Jolly is one of nearly 150 viewers who have found work through Job Line, a novel attack on unemployment that originates in WGN-TV in Chicago and is seen in 46 states. The job hungry watch the half-hour Saturday program and call in for information. At least 8,000...
The tone throughout It Came from Hollywood is one of jolly contempt-an attitude that might better be reserved for such recent films as Hanky Panky, Neighbors, Stripes or any Cheech and Chong picture. The detritus of movie history deserves better; one man's junk is another's...