Pristine songs such as Neon Lights are desperately sad as well as shiny, and Tour de France makes competitive cycling appear a heroic pursuit once again, in the wake of Lance Armstrong's disgrace.
HAVANA, Nov. 16 — A shiny new tour bus pulled up to the top eye hospital in Cuba on a sunny day this month and disgorged 47 working-class people from El Salvador, many of whom could barely see because they had thick cataracts in their eyes.
But Sundays are still for polka, and on this Sunday more than 250 people filled the hall to see the man whose shiny black tour bus — with the "POLKA" license plates and enough room to sleep an 11-piece band — was parked outside on Pulaski Street.
Anthony Carew of Neumu expressed that the album's fragmentation kept it from being "a bright-and-shiny pop-music tour-de-force".
Katie's 3G Reality Tour Diary: Day One [Shiny Shiny].
President Vladimir Putin took a tour of the shiny new studio complex of Russia Today, the English-language television channel funded by the Kremlin, and spent an hour answering questions from a number of its journalists during a round-table interview.
Its performance at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night, oiled after nine shows on a tour, was impressive, shiny, solid; it lacked the mystery of the Dead at its best, but this is an able group carrying on an extraordinary tradition.
They were also let down by the non-executives who were supposed to supervise them but appear to have been more interested in picking up a fee, a nice lunch and a tour of the shiny new corporate jets in Tesco's fleet when they should have been touring Tesco's dowdier stores.
Google has stitched together more than 2,000 images taken inside the U.K.'s second busiest airport, Gatwick — which has some 34 million passengers tramping through it each year — so now you can take a virtual tour of its shiny halls.
Visitors should pick up a free map, take a docent-led tour in Green-Wood's shiny green "trolley" or download "Green-Wood Discover," an app that was introduced this month.
