Many ordinary fans have their own version of "conspicuous consumption".
Trump was always, at heart, both the pitchman of, and a con artist for, American abundance, or rather for a particularly American version of conspicuous consumption.
Even Jones' one conspicuous flop--the 1978 film version of the musical "The Wiz --had a big silver lining.
Nor has he corroborated Mrs. Jones' current version of events, being a conspicuous no-show among the sources The Washington Post cited in its lengthy front-page report on the case last week.
The first and most conspicuous step consists in constructing a revised version of the LSBCI.
The unisex design is more conspicuous than some might prefer — the gold version will turn heads across the room — but it has a pleasingly solid feel.
One of the things made clear by Andrew Davies's version of the book is the fact that all this conspicuous wealth very easily corrupted or seduced those in its proximity.
A few years ago, the writer Ted Genoways discovered an alternate version of the image, differing only in one detail: a conspicuous bulge had been added to Whitman's crotch.
Even though all six versions are, obviously, different, the presenters cannot but notice conspicuous correspondences transpiring from their distinctive "hearings" of the musical excerpt.
