In the novel, we can enjoy all of this heroic spieling and exploring as a form of antic play.

She ran in; he indicated the spieling, flickering box: "-dame Espartero Carvala.

He was jarred now when Hatch Hewitt shook his head, and droned: "No politics--no spieling.

But can we quit with this low calorie min fat diatribe that people have been spieling the past 30 years whilst the nation gets fatter and fatter.

I dunno why it is--I never was one of the blubbering kind--but as soon as you start your spieling I always want to cry."

"I don't mind telling you that my spieling is pulling in a bigger crowd for Ozzie than old Electric Lips across the way is getting for Zel.

The characters at Virgin Waters Ltd, from the spieling, cocaine-sniffing boss to an innocent young newcomer to the racket, are sketched with skill and the dialogue crackles along.

This longstanding trio makes some of the most outré and beautiful jazz you'll hear at the Village Vanguard: the severely self-edited rhythmic gamesmanship of the drummer Paul Motian; the warm, generous spieling of the saxophonist Joe Lovano; and Mr..

Although there were pages along the way where this performance lapsed into routine spieling of the notes and more than a few passages of rough ensemble playing, Mr. Mehta and his musicians outlined the symphony's profile clearly and delivered a sustantial, rather weighty reading of a work that can thrive under such an interpretation.