The pièce de résistance: Dior's ladylike watch with baguette sapphires and bright diamonds.
The window above my bed splinters into bright diamonds of heat, and it is sleeting piercing shards of glass through the dormitory and onto us.
Families crane their necks to peer up at green dragons and bright diamonds and rainbow-pattern polyester boxes, hovering 100 feet aloft on a single thread.
Laura Fisher, who specializes in quilts, is showing an optically dazzling example of a "convalescent quilt," sewn by a hospitalized British sailor from small, bright diamonds cut from blankets and uniforms.
Beneath a tight, fashionably out-of-style black nylon jacket was a T-shirt that read "TECHNOLOGY!" His sunglasses were of the oversized, county-sheriff variety, and each of his earlobes held a small, bright diamond earring.
Also on Popcast: New releases by Real Estate, My Brightest Diamond and Harold O'Neill.
JON CARAMANICA MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND "All Things Will Unwind" (Asthmatic Kitty) "Oh, how gorgeous," exclaims Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond, her voice opening and warming, as if in bloom.
(Petrusich) My Brightest Diamond (Thursday) Shara Worden — who leads My Brightest Diamond when she's not collaborating with artists like the Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens and David Byrne — has a woozy, mesmerizing voice that's both exotic and enticing.
And Shara Worden, a classically trained singer who performs as a singer-songwriter under the name My Brightest Diamond, appears in The Long Count, masked and dressed magnificently to sing the soprano part of a bird demon, Vucub-Caquix.
This year's festival opens with a collaboration between Shara Worden, the singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist best known for her work with My Brightest Diamond, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, for which Ms. Worden has written two new works.
The text was written cooperatively by the singers in the piece: Shara Worden, who records under the name My Brightest Diamond; Kim and Kelley Deal of the Breeders; and Matt Berninger, the National's singer.
