A spiffily dressed waitress hovers between tables making sure players are taken care of.

But backstage, everything is spiffily up to date, and company members have pronounced the acoustics first rate.

He said that "alma mater is moving forward spiffily."

I was dressed more spiffily this morning with tan cotton pants and striped oxford shirt.

The faux encore is a spiffily choreographed parade.

Your father doesn't dress as spiffily as he used to and has stopped shaving and doing other personal care rituals.

Dramatis personae: Two spiffily dressed couples, exiting with good-natured laughter.

MTV gave little girls access to a whole new galaxy of perfectly styled, spiffily packaged acts.

The service staff is exceptionally friendly and spiffily decked out in white shirts and red suspenders.

A spiffily dressed trickster at a busy intersection accosts the unwary with, "Whaddya need?

A few spiffily dressed boys or men (with proper underwear too) show up, uncommon in this sorority and perhaps intended for boys to play with.

Around in right was the spiffily repainted 271-foot-tall Parachute Jump tower (sans parachutes, alas).

Mr. Taylor offers virtuosically extended social dances and skits of varying effectiveness, all spiffily costumed.

The direction - James Burrows did the first episode, Noam Pitlik the rest - is spiffily professional.

"Stone Cold Greats" read a sign over a box of used LP's spiffily wrapped in plastic sleeves.

Ms. Calegari's musicality brought out the contrast between the courtly first piece and the futuristic second ballet, helped by a spiffily disciplined ensemble.

James Glossman's directorial tricks involve three unlikely, spiffily dressed witches in unlikely doings.

Juliana's is a late-night magnet for spiffily dressed young Japanese men and what are widely known in Japan as O.L.'s, or office ladies.

It was led spiffily by Jassen Virolas and the young Asha Davis, in a body-slapping hambone solo.

Hugo Fiorato conducted the all-Robbins program, which included "Moves" and "The Concert," both spiffily danced.

Here, Mr. Corella's spiffily double air-turns into arabesque and whiplash pirouettes followed up a slightly more uneven solo.

SO now we have two recent, spiffily recorded, starrily cast recordings of one of Handel's most spectacular scores, the opera "Rinaldo."

In all, what I'm hearing is nothing special--just spiffily updated simulations--catchy knockoffs of catchier knockoffs, really.

It was an odd but spiffily performed program that blew a breath of spring both into the unexpected November cold and into a fall season remarkably low on great dancing.

After water damage from a fire and a resolution of ownership issues, a spiffily renovated Martin Brothers has emerged as the Columbia University neighborhood's most sophisticated wine shop.