With its melting witches, flying monkeys and gallons of green paint, "Wicked" relies heavily on visual pizazz.

The classic of the genre is surely the BMW 2002 of the 1970's, a tough sports sedan with as much visual pizazz as a Ford Falcon.

The restaurant has lots of visual pizazz, and enough Italian warmth to fire the ovens.

Many other dishes had more visual than gustatory pizazz, dropping from memory as soon as our server carried them from sight.

The movie abounds in visual pizazz, clever in-jokes and trendy pop references, but such things can carry a movie only so far.

At his best, however, as in the "Ku Kka Ka Kka" at Galerie Lelong, he creates a striking combination of symbolic complexity and visual pizazz.

Adding to the visual pizazz are several magnificent gowns from the Whistler period, displayed in cases.

At times its flashy visual pizazz, which includes instant replays and abrupt switches between color and black-and-white, seems gratuitous.

But one gets an inkling of their very un-Confucian visual pizazz in the meticulously painted patch of embroidery worn by an official in a 17th-century portrait.

Crudely put, the professional artists provide visual pizazz while the classroom projects lend heart and sincerity to the proceedings.