But while Mr. Fry takes Eliot's theme and gives it a clever spin, his voice is decidedly his own: slangy, frantic and enthusiastically ribald, closer in spirit and style to Monty Python than anything Eliot ever dreamed of.

($15.75 for 10) Egg Press's clever spin on the Christmas tree concept.

These beautifully rehearsed performances of Symphonies 4, 5, 6 and 8 told us that, with some juggling of the facts and a little clever spin, old values are not entirely lost in updated translation.

It was supposed to be a clever spin on National Novel Writing Month, the idea being that it would be easier to read a book in 30 days than write one.

There was a good deal of clever spin here.

The writers of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood called it, "A very clever spin on the alternates offered by the Treehouse of Horrors run.

Alison Moritsugu does a clever if somewhat gimmicky spin on this notion by painting landscapes in the style of the Hudson River School on the flat ends of sections of logs.

His review calls it "mostly a really clever spin on domestic chaos" and says that it "qualifies as first-rate silliness."

The clever liberal spin: His conviction shows that if people can't get assisted suicide legally, they'll turn to murderers such as Kevorkian.