All the while, she was building a public image as not just an accomplished actress but as a flashy interview subject as well.
The nation's street poets have moved beyond their usual subject matter (flashy cars, loose women, the joys of marijuana) to grapple with the weighty issue of gun violence.
Today's whiter Harlem of multimillion-dollar brownstones and flashy eateries is already the subject of books, blogs and innumerable magazine travel articles.
Next season will bring Jake Heggie's "Dead Man Walking," which, to judge from a new recording of the San Francisco Opera's première production, is a flashy treatment of a gripping subject.
Mr. Firth's lean, classic arrangements, unencumbered by flashy embellishment, fit the profile of a subject who didn't decorate what she sang.
And the dances in "Kinky Boots" (Al Hirschfeld Theater) aren't as striking as their subject matter — drag queens wearing flashy footwear — deserves.
But the downtown space suited the subject matter better: somewhat gritty, somewhat flashy and a stone's throw from many of the Greenwich Village clubs and other historic spaces highlighted on the museum's detailed, white polymer model of Manhattan.
Made by an Alutiiq weaver from Kodiak Island, Alaska, around 1910, it suggests in its flashy appeal the wide-brimmed, multicolor hat worn by the subject of Vermeer's "Young Girl With a Flute".
Their charitable donations, like a $10 million gift to the High Line in Manhattan, were overshadowed only by a flashy taste for fashion and real estate that made them the subject of tabloid fascination.
Taking a similar approach, Zinkie Aw asked her subjects to pose with their household trash, revealing the flashy marketing of their consumer goods.
