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A mix of old and new that hits robustly yet classily, like a fine malt.

Yet somehow the idea has been reused classily enough to avoid the putrefaction into cliche.

"Very classily, as a matter of fact.

Alam lifts his third ball lazily and classily over Trott at deep square for six.

Vavá scored in the second minute, but seven minutes later Fontaine equalised classily after a beautiful buildup.

She's played by Cybill Shepherd who, even with stories of being difficult abounding, can deliver classily when the occasion is right.

Even if you don't like Evans's style - and many don't - this is classily produced, confident and inclusive radio.

Even the man who was supposed to be the bore spoke epigrams...A classily done piece of nearly nothing."

Cook gets England's first runs from the 14th ball of the innings, driving Praveen Kumar classily through extra cover for four.

On a scene-by-scene basis, though, it's classily effective, mainly because of Wright Penn's skill in nailing the precise tenor of every moment.

Their duet on a Billy Joel ballad is classily understated, with mentor Gary Barlow sat at the piano.

Their business card went for a classily understated tone: "You have been visited by the I.C.F." Spiked balls and chains?

The pair also made sure to present themselves as immaculately groomed and classily dressed in their publicity photos, which were used for advertising and on the covers of sheet music promoting their songs.

(Clinton had to follow suit; only their host, Brian Mulroney, classily stepping down as Prime Minister to preserve his party's national leadership, could afford to take cover like a sensible person.)

Plushly produced, with a better title, the film is a classily opened up "Angel Street," Patrick Hamilton's long-running wartime Broadway fixture with Vincent Price and Judith Evelyn.

Then, more classily still, he not only comes up with the idea for but devises the code for a site called FaceMash, which invites visitors to rate the photographs of female students across the campus.

First there is his encounter with Wanda Wilcox (Miss Dunaway) who, though rather classily pulled together, is no less of a barfly than Henry and who, like him, has no particular past.

Twice in one afternoon the a capella ensemble Pomerium presented a seasonal concert of Renaissance Passion motets that was as lovingly curated and classily presented as any of the museum's other displays.

Directed by Martin Ritt and handsomely photographed in Louisiana, it's classily atmospheric and looks Southern as sorghum - SATURDAY at 5 P.M. and SAT.-SUN.

Classily lensed in widescreen and tighter than a rattler's tail, this should be a steady rental earner (and possible cult movie) in mature markets - where the cast of U.S. video regulars will strike chords among buffs - with some theatrical business elsewhere.

Jock Soto made a mesmerizing debut as the hero of Jerome Robbins's "Watermill," while Kyra Nichols and Igor Zelensky danced classily through "Glazounov Pas de Deux," a showpiece created for them by Mr. Woetzel.

Shemp Howard begins the film as the projectionist of a cinema, displaying on its screen what appears to be the start of a song-and-dance number whose classily dressed performers walk down a staircase - which collapses as in a fun-house ride, sliding them all straight to hell.

THIS week's film attractions include a diverting combination of gloss and grit about a teeming hotel in New Orleans, a perceptive World War II gem, a classily spun suspense story about a naive bride and her strange groom and a nocturnal New York whodunit.