bespangled

Below that was an illustration of what looked like a rodeo parade, with lots of bespangled cowboys and Indians.

In South Asia a Hindu soul traveled to heaven on the back of a "bespangled cow."

The gymnasts threw one another across the floor in some sort of implied, unspoken, antidrug spectacular, wearing bespangled red, white and blue uniforms.

"The bespangled spool of Terok Nor.

A whole chorus line would be nice, but it only takes a few bespangled gypsies extending top hats along with high kicks to spark a singular sensation.

This week's programme was a smorgasbord of tiny bespangled bugs, teapots, ancient granite furniture and...wing woms.

Their acts were more focused on Eastern European culture, and tended to hold more narrative and be more dance oriented than their bespangled, action-packed contemporaries.

In a moment more, the bespangled, brilliantly dressed young women who had come with Orchid were kneeling, too, nudging one another and tugging at the skirts of those who still sat transfixed.

They remarked also the awful remoteness and mystery which travellers experienced on these early voyages, with dazzling sunlight on one side of the vessel and dazzling bespangled night on the other.

The Jiving Lindy Hoppers, an old-style Lindy group from London, and the bespangled Swedish Rhythm Hot Shots put on well-staged displays of dazzling gymnastic dancing.

There's a vulnerability, even a slight shakiness, right on the bespangled, bewigged surface of Mr. McGrath's Hedwig, so that when she announces to her audience that she's "wide open," you don't just snicker.

And a couple of the musical concepts are terrific, like having a bespangled Ann Miller-like creature named Kathleen Harris (Amanda Naughton) leading a ballot-counting song called "Shakin' the Chads Away."

"We want to spend money we haven't really got as quickly and efficiently as we can, for Christmas is hurtling towards us like a bespangled juggernaut of tinsel and expenditure, and the only rational response is to Buy More Stuff.

In his article he writes, "During the course of Cher's hour-and-45-minute performances, she has been dressing as a bespangled circus ringleader, an iron-haired hippie chick, an S&M tart and what looks like Conan the Barbarian's favorite concubine.

The last act before the curtain call by all the performers was a magician, a magnificent magician with two bespangled women assistants whom he kept making disappear and reappear in various sections of the audience, high above on a rafter, or inside one of the four locked boxes on a raised platform.