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In "Swan Get Ting Up," costumed in a black dance belt and a transparent tinselly dress, Barber bared his soul as well as his bottom as he struggled through the Saint-Saens music, played live, with a twist, by 3 Leg Torso, a Portland music group that is an integral part of the Bielemeier Dance Project.

The encounter between these women and Blackpool is poignantly funny: the women in their haphazard combinations of Western clothes and rainbow silks; and Blackpool - lost in a time warp - with its hucksters, tinselly concessions, untidy crowds, and gaudy lights.

The music is compellingly European, orderly, melodically tuneful and verging on the kind of sentimentality we associate with handcrafted, rather than mass produced, objets d'art, In the final quartet Strauss's strenuous wish to climb the highest mountains of human happiness (in the Met's tinselly production the two couples are perched insecurely and hierarchically on two craggy peaks) results in the kind of summarizing yet dutifully skillful music he reserved for his best moments with Hofmannsthal, for example the final trio in Rosenkavalier and Ariadne's opening monologue.

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5/5 Space saving (6ft), PSods PS47, Littlewoods First impression: Shiny black and tinselly. This pop-up tree is easy to erect and would look smart in a bachelor flat.

We made our way from the first, book-lined level of the pub through the games room, and down to the lower level at the other side of the bar, where we managed to find a space at a table squeezed under the tinselly Christmas tree.

Ironically, servants' status as others within the family does not eliminate, but rather compounds the interdependence that Woolf objects to in her diaries, and thus makes them necessary inclusions among the "innumerable other characters" Woolf marshals to the support of the "tinselly" Mrs.

One worthwhile preparation is the acquisition from the UK of packs of Christmas cards, you know the type, 20 tinselly scenes or 40 comic cartoons for a quid.

In fact these pieces, with their recuperation of the unvalued, their play of stiff and soft, rigid and limp, stuffed and empty, and their tinselly, glittery loveliness, virtually call out for it.

Still, I did say that I have a hugely tinselly Christmas tree and although I'm too lazy to nail light-up Santas to my house I am very glad that other people do it.

Still, I did say that I have a hugely tinselly Christmas tree and although I was too lazy to nail light-up Santas to my house I am very glad that other people did it.

Nowadays, they are like everybody else, seduced by power, wealth and the cheap, tinselly lure of trivial celebrity.

She stunned onlookers at the launch of her new photography book by turning up in a blushingly buttock-skimming tinselly dress, held on by an almost invisible gold string across her back.

The gauzes and tinselly fabrics of orange, green and gold brocade are shown in an 18th century painting of bibi or kept woman.