There are also two sassily precocious children tucked away in the cramped apartment.

The time has come to talk cheerfully and joke sassily about personal responsibility for managing the dying process."

They walked proudly, even sassily.

They were six small women, a mix of the fair-haired and the bright, with hands sassily on hips and legs flying.

More than once, kids sassily shouted "Hola Gringos!"

It was Kate's good luck, she mused, that it suited so perfectly those large, exotic brown eyes and sassily pointed chin.

But the cottonwoods had lost their ermine trim and stood bare and black with wet while the pines rose sassily green.

She can purr like a Gainsbourg girl, strut sassily, or croon quite tenderly-sometimes all within the same song.

Supporting this odd couple are an incredibly astute dog and a sassily adorable boy (Christopher Babers).

Now her mouth was full and ripe, her chin sassily pointed, and her brow high and clear.

The petunias slouched sassily, the geraniums arched with dignity, little daisies stood on tiptoe begging to be chosen.

As the evening proceeds, the two singers relax and begin to enjoy each other, most notably in the sassily comic rendition of "Scandalize My Name."

In the 12-bar channel of "The Mooche," for instance, the brass section sassily dragged its rhythm, making the melody line touch down in strange places.

Dressed in pajamas and clutching pillows, the dancers sailed sassily through "Toothbrush Tango" and six other numbers.

On Dec. 23, in the zócalo, is an extraordinary annual display of sculptures, both sacred and sassily secular, carved entirely out of huge radishes.

The Spice Girls' first hit, "Wannabe," sassily extolled female camaraderie and independence, forming the basis for the group's "girl power" rhetoric.

He continued to study her coolly--the pert, slightly turned-up nose; the sensuously ripe mouth; the long narrow feet with sassily painted pink toes.

Stretching this transcultural strategy perhaps to its limits is the sassily titled "Cosmic Slop," which the Hudlin Brothers envision as a half-hour anthology series.

Mrs. Bush, alluding to the large payment for the former first lady's memoirs, sassily replied, "I guess it'll be whether or not I can get that $8 million advance."

(Feathers's wife and his son are confined to a mental hospital; he and his daughter Lucinda, of many guises played sassily by Katherine Hiler, are not.)

One woman, daughter of the Mayor at the time, recounts with understandable relish how, when offered a date with one of the stars, sassily asked, "Who's James Dean?"

The speedino à la Farnsworth is an amusing concoction of house-made mozzarella, bread and prosciutto, dipped in batter and pan-fried to crispness, then sassily drizzled with anchovy sauce.

TV Guide calls it "a good-natured, occasionally hilarious spookshow, graced with a few ingenious special effects and sassily acted - with Davis giving a gleefully nasty, if abbreviated, last film performance.

We cranks would have cheered Gingrich had he taken the money and sassily promised to dismantle the whole hypocritical good-conduct system built on the absurd idea that politics and ethics can live in the same house.

- but it is a handy, sassily insidish, behind-his-back reference to the individual in that office, as in "Is Potus in one of those moods where he wants to see teeth on the sidewalk?"