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...make people look good, people make clothes look good But people can also make clothes--and themselves--look preposterous, by dressing with the wrong goals in mind. Fashion Victims seem to hang from three kinds of racks--that of the Trendy, the Statement Maker, and the Dress-for-Success-er...
Like the Trendy and the Statement Maker, the Dress-for-Success-er undercuts her personal image through a misuse of fashion. The careerist who feels insecure about her prospects within a man's world, and depends on a "Successful Person's" wardrobe to foster respectability, mocks her own professionalism. Her appearances at even minor occasions (say, a career seminar and Kennedy school panel discussions) with a surgically precise manicure; anchorwoman-perfect makeup; and topiaried coiffure, only magnify her self-consciousness. The incongruity between the Dress-for-Success-er's actual and contrived selves transforms her into a caricature...
...lovingly about his snoring. Soon, however, we learn that Mary is not only trying to overcome a morphine addiction, but also is fraught with worry for her frail younger son Edmund, whose "summer cold" shows signs of being consumption. The elder son Jamie, it turns out, is a ne'er-do-well actor, a disappointment to his father with whom he quarrels incessantly...
...flap this bug with gilded wings, thus painted child of dirt that stinks and stings; whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys. Yet , and beauty ne'er enjoys. --Alexander Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot...
...BLOOD in the humor department is matched by new blood on stage. A few towering, er, figures are familiar from previous years--Adam Isaacs as Maxine the Mermaid, Christopher Charron at the Queen's dimwitted spinster sister Auntie Emenem, Michael Allio as the belle Constance Lee Whining, and Calnek at the Captain. The years appear to have taught them some important skills how to project a falsetto voice past the first three rows, how to act during a kickline when you're stuck in a mermaid's tail, and how to keep a straight face when your wig flies...