The newcomer was on the short side, very lightly built and dapperly dressed.

At yesterday's news conference, dressed dapperly in a dark suit and a blue tie, he looked very much the part of corporate executive.

Dapperly dressed, he'd always bring along a "beaucoup" bottle of brandy or whiskey and some flowers for my wife.

I remembered him as an amiable, somewhat flabby-looking youth, always dapperly dressed, with no trace of the dreamer or visionary.

The 13 stories of "Billancourt Tales" are closely observed, potently phrased and dapperly shaped.

The older Mr. Belli, who still dresses dapperly and carries himself erect, has the voice and vigor of younger man.

Next on the firing line is Mr. Faber, as dapperly dressed as someone only recently ejected from long-term employment.

During a question-and-answer session after the screening, Mr. West, dressed dapperly as usual, seemed to delight in decoding the video's symbolism.

Mr Binkworthy was a tall, dapperly dressed bloke who had parked his redundancy-money Ford Sierra behind Armstrong.

Mr. Belli, who at 88 still dresses dapperly and speaks in a sonorous voice, said his firm's Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition, filed on Thursday, would be of little lasting consequence.

A former maintenance worker, insurance salesman and tailor, Mr. Diaz, dressed dapperly in a pinstriped suit, fedora hat and floral tie, is at first coy about his longevity.

There are the photographs adorning the walls of Mr.Wolfe dressed dapperly in a three-piece flannel suit or a pair of pleated slacks,his mouth molded into a satisfied half-smirk.

"Working on this show feels a little bit like England, in the sense that we are trying to get something for nothing," says Mr. Andrews, dapperly dressed in tails as Mr. Hyde.

The "Jungle Love" hit makers are still pumping their keyboard-based grooves, with the dapperly overdone Morris Day out front and his trusty "valet" Jerome Benton by his side.

Mr. Dinkins, who as Mayor often wore a baseball jacket over his white shirt and tie, was dressed more formally on Friday, but no less dapperly, in a navy blazer and tan trousers.

But it is worth the journey for the food, the huge, airy loaves of country bread piled in baskets that greet you at the door, and the efficient waiters dressed dapperly in white shirts and ties.

There were encores, of course: more dances and polkas, for which Mr. Masur dapperly wore a Fred Astaire top hat, and the audience clapped along in time (almost) to a rousing march.

Having a secret and vastly more lucrative business than that of author, playwright and radical political speaker, the dapperly dressed man had on more than one occasion found banks tellers in trouble to be if nothing more a useful source of information.

Dapperly dressed in his trademark three-piece navy suit and gold watch chain, he folded his large frame, which he says has shrunk in old age from 6 feet 4 inches to a little over 6 feet, into a plumply cushioned love seat.