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There was a podium, a microphone, a tinselly congratulations banner and a few balloons tied to a pole like a climbing rose.

Instead they cheerfully daubed it with big, tinselly lights and zig-zagging folds in the sheet metal.

Mixing anecdotes and oldies, the show avoids any suggestion of tinselly sentimentality or self-glorification.

Both works issue from the tinselly side of Ravel's brain, the source of his love for ornament, glitter and the tastefully sentimental.

And the easy money and tinselly "stardom" at the Club Exotica exert their own seductive glamour.

His bullock wore bright red paper cones over its horns and much tinselly drapery over its nose and back.

With her lean, sinewy body, gaunt mime's face, and gravelly voice, she has the air of an exotic cultural import dispensing a tinselly bonhomie.

I showed up in slacks, only to find Ava and all Ray's sisters in floor-length dresses and tinselly hair ribbons.

And those towers and minarets sparkling in the night capture Dreamland as a child might have seen it; you may find yourself oohing at the tinselly splendors.

Its 83 recipes are lightweight retro fun, not unlike the author's tinselly decors: creamed lobster, truffle salad, tangerine surprise, Indian sardine squares.

He wore a blazer, not unlike the one Lord Woodleigh wore except that instead of discreet brass buttons it was decorated by no fewer than five enormous, tinselly affairs.

Indeed, Mr. Osorio may be doing for Latin-American Roman Catholicism what Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, with his tinselly constructions, has done for its northern counterpart.

While Mr. Traub was shopping for backers, the traffic on B'way, the tinselly main drag of Bloomingdale's first floor, bustled with its usual post-Thanksgiving fanfare - only more so.

It hardly comes as a surprise that Vegas is where Agassi, the enigmatic tennis-playing entertainer on the cusp of showing his country whether he will be a true champion or a tinselly chump, calls home.

An angel, a forest of Christmas trees, and a very good reason not to open your presents early: you can tell Stephen Moffat has had fun putting a tinselly Tardis spin on the festive components.

A mile or so farther on, a small knot of Albanian villagers is gathered tearfully around two mounds of dirt decorated with tributes to the dead, including a few strands of what look like tinselly Christmas garlands.

And, Mr. Elliman said, the campaign will seek to show that People is not - as many think - purely about the world of show biz and has, in fact, turned away from heavy coverage of that tinselly sector.

Maybe it was the fluorescent hues; or the attempt to create local color with tinselly choreography; or the stylized patterns painted on the stage, like sun on sand, and the women's bikinis, which evoked a recent addition to the Games, beach volleyball.

But of course it's supposed to be about the films, not this silly tinselly nonsense - although having said this, the festival organisers Gilles Jacob and Thierry Frémaux have a bit of a predilection for tinsel and glamour.

A DEFINING moment for diamond jewelry came in Chanel's summer couture show, when Karl Lagerfeld sent out the wacky aristocratic model Iris Palmer with a tinselly diamond tiara, necklace, earrings - the works.

Following the Trio's performance at the 1959 festival, folk music critic Mark Morris wrote "What connection these frenetically tinselly showmen have with a folk festival eludes me...except that it is mainly folk songs that they choose to vulgarize."

Massimo Masini, the Mayor of Riccione, a tinselly beach town on the Teutonic Grill, who moonlights summers as a disk jockey, lamented recently the absence of the Germans and the weakness of the mark, which has lost 30 percent of its value this year.