Every time she stepped on a stage, resplendent in gold brocade or high hats or a sheath of shiny leopard skin, she unleashed the power of music to thrill, shock, elevate, and set men and women free.

ECONOMIST: Miriam Makeba

Under its shiny new skin, new hardware and software, such as a slimmed down version of Apple's OS X operating system and a flash memory drive, instead of the current iPod's mechanical hard drive, could keep the new device thin and light.

FORBES: The Next iPod

You can design your Guardian travel safe to be clad in anything from soft leather to shiny saltwater crocodile skin.

FORBES: Connect

Her skin was pallid, shiny, as though she had a fever.

NEWYORKER: The Reptile Garden

Those nubby rubber bristles also keep short coats shiny while gently massaging your pet's skin.

CNN: Pet grooming tools for a less hairy summer

Lenny emphatically doesn't count the teenyboppers - fans of things shiny who are bent on showing a maximum of skin - that constitute the core customer base for so many other Brazilian swimwear brands.

NPR: Lenny's Rise From Garage To Brazil's Bikini Queen

In the waiting room as we checked into the hospital, his father sat next to my mother and I remember the image of him exactly: olive skin, broad face, and long shiny hair, his head held in his big hands as if it had cut loose from his body.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Warm Springs'

His skin was the color of dark cherrywood, his forehead big and shiny.

NEWYORKER: Brooklyn Circle

We know this not only by the strange, shiny grey appearance of the sandstone - caused by centuries of polishing by human skin - but also by the fluent lines of Aboriginal art on the overhanging rock face beside me.

BBC: Australia��s Top End

Bennie has light-brown skin and excellent eyes, and he irons his hair into a Mohawk as shiny black as a virgin LP.

NEWYORKER: Ask Me If I Care