Soon other agents began quietly enlisting his help in spiffing up their wardrobes.
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And the Met's own galleries for ancient Near Eastern art could use some spiffing up.
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Now, though, Genesis has become the Korean automaker's luxury brand, spiffing up that car and rechristening it the G80.
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"As long as you're silent and you're spiffing 'x' amount of your income," Bannon said, in reference to religious minorities paying taxes under Islamic law.
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Critics argue that the company does little more than corporate real estate arbitrage — leasing a space, spiffing it up, then subleasing it out to other tenants.
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With Aspen back on the map, Bayer, the quintessential influencer of his time, dove into the task of spiffing up and advertising the town and its amenities.
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What we're watching: Quartz — an Atlantic Media property which, rumor has it, almost sold to Japan's Nikkei a while back — also looks like it might be spiffing up for a possible buyer.
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IF A Martian were to land on earth and be asked, based on effort put into spiffing itself up, which city was the Olympic host this year, there is a good chance it would guess Hangzhou.
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We told her since we were going to be home so much more, we would work on spiffing up the space and the backyard and invited her to come hang out in the garden when this was all over.
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Now that protests have wrecked the equanimity of the city Juppé spent nearly a quarter-century spiffing up, Macron has summoned him to Paris to take a seat on France's mighty Constitutional Council, which vets new laws for their constitutionality.
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Above: screenshot from 'Her Majesty's Spiffing' courtesy of Billy Goat Entertainment You might think that adventure games have had their golden age, your memory hazily recalling Monkey Island and the work of LucasArts, Beneath a Steel Sky, Simon the Sorcerer, and Sierra's King's Quest series.
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From Marcel Duchamp's groundbreaking urinal-turned-sculpture The Fountain to Maurizio Cattelan's 18-karat-gold toilet recently installed at the Guggenheim (and later, amusingly, offered to Donald Trump in lieu of a Van Gogh painting), it seems there's a natural inclination among artists toward spiffing up something otherwise totally utilitarian.
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They include "The Truth," by the French dramatist du jour, Florian Zeller ("The Father"), a precisely drawn and equally predictable romantic quadrangle at Wyndham's Theater; and around the block, at the Duke of York's Theater, a spiffing revival of "How the Other Half Loves" (1969), Alan Ayckbourn's ingenious, time-and-space bending portrait of overlapping marriages.
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Her Majesty's SPIFFING (also known as Her Majesty's SPIFFING: The Empire Staggers Back) is an adventure video game developed and published by Billy Goat Entertainment Ltd. It was released worldwide for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Windows, and PCs running Linux on 7 December 2016. The game is set after the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union and the queen's use of the royal prerogative to take control over the country herself and the subsequent set up of a space organisation called SPIFFING. The plot follows Captain Frank Lee English and his Welsh subordinate Aled Jones in their attempts to establish a galactic British Empire.
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The game features many elements from point-and-click adventure games. In this screenshot, English, the player-character, is making a cup of tea. Her Majesty's SPIFFING is point-and-click-style adventure game.
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Stiff Upper Lips received mixed reviews. Alexander Walker of the Evening Standard called it "A Spot of Spiffing Spoofery" while the Time Out reviewer said "it is beautifully acted and consistently spot on". Stephen Holden of The New York Times, however, lamented "If only it were funnier".
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Her Majesty's SPIFFING received mixed reviews upon release. The Xbox One version holds an average score of 66% at Metacritic, based on an aggregate of eight reviews, the PC version a score of 60% based on five reviews, the PlayStation 4 version a score of 74%, based on four reviews, and the Nintendo Switch version a score of 68%, based on four reviews. Miguel Escudero from the Spanish IGN. Peter Mattson from Adventure Gamers.
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Roz Laws of the Sunday Mercury also commented on Penry-Jones, saying that he "proved to be just as good a spy in 1914 as he was in Spooks, only more dashing" and Alison Graham of the Radio Times, in her 'pick of the day' piece, said that Penry-Jones is "just perfect as John Buchan's hero" and commented that Victoria (Leonard) was "a splendid suffragette". Alasdair McKay of The Herald said "it was all rather spiffing and well-mannered".
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As well as the name change, the orange on the usual box was replaced with yellow. On the hard water variety of the special edition Yorkshire Thé packaging the band remained green. In 2016 Yorkshire Tea was made available inside a promotional tea caddy linked to a tree planting campaign with artwork featuring characters from the children's book The Gruffalo and branded Yorkshire Tree. The YouTuber "The Spiffing Brit" constantly advertises Yorkshire Tea in his videos, allegedly without any official connection to or contract with the Bettys & Taylors Group.
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Nintendo Magazine System praised the large number of levels in the SNES version, as well as the music and sound effects, but noted that the control system "takes a bit of getting used to." Nintendo Magazine System praised the music of the Game Boy version, but criticized the lack of abundant sound effects, as well as the absence of a password system. The magazine concluded that it was a "spiffing game, imaginatively designed and well-programmed". Nintendo Power praised the "very effective" cinema scenes in the Game Boy version, but criticized the controls for being slow to respond.
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February 2011 and have carried a number of positive live reviews. The band's debut album received universally positive reviews, with The Skinny describing Shouting at Wildlife as "a thrilling, uplifting and generally all-round spiffing combination of indie-pop skills, lyrical wit, and choruses sung through smiles" and The List praised the record for being "packed with singalong melodies, frisky jangles and a real sense of purpose. A jubilant and skilful racket." The album was BBC Radio 1 Session in Scotland's Album of the Month for July 2010 and the album featured at, or near, the top of a number of end of year lists and polls.
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The game is set shortly after the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union. Dismayed by its political turmoil and isolation, the queen invokes the royal prerogative to dissolve parliament and take control over the county herself in an attempt to make Britain great again. Recognising the difficulties in re- conquering a quarter of the Earth's surface, the queen creates a new space organisation called SPIFFING (Special Planetary Investigative Force For Inhabiting New Galaxies) with the intention of establishing a galactic British Empire. After preparations made in Hounslow Mission Control, Big Ben is launched into space and a fleet of colonists set course for planets in the Milky Way.
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The game was developed by Belfast-based Billy Goat Entertainment Ltd, a studio formerly specialising in animated advertisements for Irish television. According to William Barr—director and designer of Her Majesty's SPIFFING—the game was originally set to be a short animated film, however Barr realised that a film would be more difficult to fund than an adventure game. Barr also reflected that the studio had some experience with outsource game development for other studios, and cited 1990s LucasArts point-and-click video games as a major inspiration. Since the game was to be the studio's debut title, a Kickstarter proposal was submitted in hopes that the game would receive adequate funding, but "failed awfully" according to Barr.
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Barr compared the feeling of disorganisation with games like The Sims and The Curse of Monkey Island, where he opined that the player always had to suggest an action as opposed to physically participating themselves. To counteract this, the team tried to alleviate the sense of disconnect by giving the player direct control of the protagonist, resembling that of an ordinary third-person adventure game. Barr took further comparison to traditional point-and-click titles which involved mundane gameplay tasks, and stressed that he wanted to make Her Majesty's SPIFFING more responsive and immersive. Barr also explained that keeping the Captain English on-screen at all times instead of viewing it through his point of view would allow them to design a more personable and endearing character, as well as helping the player bond with English.
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