11.   Lay, who sat scowling and impassive through more than an hour of harsh senatorial criticism, was likened to Charles Ponzi and compared unfavorably to a carnival barker.

12.   Others on the family tree would include carnival barkers, job interviewers and, of course, the overseers of spelling bees.

13.   That means behaving more than a little like those carnival barkers and alligators in its ads.

14.   That said, the Egyptians are ushering visitors to this area with all the enthusiasm of a carnival barker.

15.   The production also connects with the dangerous sexual tension that underlies the relationship of carnival barker Billy Bigelow and millworker Julie Jordan.

16.   The thin, bald one in the suspenders and garb of a carnival barker is Anthony Simpson, a carousel enthusiast with a graduate degree.

17.   There are six-foot butterfly wings, a silky carnival barker, movie-quality aliens and more, says San Angelo.

18.   There, Bob Harandi, an auctioneer, worked the room like a hopped-up carnival barker.

19.   These may sound like the words of a carnival barker, but they are not.

20.   They came as carnival barkers, angels on the skids, penny-ante party animals and, of course, devils.