The plots click along zanily, supplemented with strong guest stars.

This doting zeal can lead Lovell often to become zanily defensive.

The Wright Brothers, a group of zanily athletic new vaudevillians, are on at 8:15.

"occasionally seen flopping zanily about the penalty area"

And surely that is one reason he is so decidedly averse to the zanily effete.

It zigzags naturally, thrillingly and, once or twice, zanily over voluptuous terrain.

Porcelain sinks from the old locker rooms stand zanily amid the wooden desks crammed haphazardly together.

Elsewhere curvilinear motifs are zanily animated.

Now on Fox's hot new family sitcom, "Malcolm in the Middle," the mom is so zanily busy she answers the door topless.

The "Politically Incorrect" format is simple: bring out four guests, including entertainment celebrities, with zanily clashing views, to argue about the issues of the day.

(Science Times, May 17) is a zanily humorous article, which only in its conclusion hits upon the probable real reason there is a male of the species.

A creature of contradictions, she can be withdrawn and zanily extroverted, gently encouraging and formidably insistent within a matter of minutes.

And nine dancers zanily embodied lurching shifts of emotion in Mr. Parsons's "Mood Swing."

Each is made of knitted yarn stretched over armatures to form zanily angled or bulging shapes ornamented with beads and tassles.

But she has her own suave painterly touch, a smoldering palette of muted reds and greens and a zanily morbid sense of humor.

Shannon Hummel and her company, Cora, will perform Ms. Hummel's zanily humane dances (Monday) with a discussion following.

Mr. Bell's zanily complicated fine-line ink drawings and paintings, like medieval manuscript pages with collage and sculptural elements sometimes added, don't deal in logical narratives.

Also on hand, and zanily good, is Peter MacNicol as Renfield, the lawyer who arrives in Transylvania to become Dracula's slave.

Whether you are actually portaled, however, you can still enjoy this singular artist's head-spinning play of ideas and signs, dazzling visual fabric and zanily portentous theatricality.

A group of about a dozen or so zanily dressed youths, with vivid purple makeup and orange hair molded into spikes and rings, was gathering on an opposite corner.

The zanily patterned brickwork and surreal sculptural forms of early 20th-century Amsterdam School (10) architecture earned its practitioners the tag "Gaudis of the North".

Meanwhile, back at the North Pole, a contrite Santa, sorely missing his wife, is being zanily comforted by his head elf, Arvo (Michael Jeter).

This latest in a growing list of designer-artist collaborations at Vuitton (they have included accessories zanily decorated by Stephen Sprouse and Julie Verhoeven) is already a hit.

Ms. Foster and the screenwriter, W. D. Richter, have given this film some peculiar mood swings, so that it starts out zanily and winds down to a wistful note.