His solo characters have included a rapping pensioner, a blowzy country singer and a theory-spouting academic.
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That was my first reaction on hearing that Laurie Metcalf would be playing the blowzy, lusty hostess from hell, Martha, in Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" on Broadway this spring.
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The collection itself had slightly kiddie air, what with its blowzy and oversize proportions; its Necco Wafers palette; its childlike florals; and the costume trunk playfulness of barely post-adolescent boys wearing jackets over tunics or skirts.
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Tory Burch tunneled even later, channeling Princess Diana, which got Ms. Burch thinking about rose gardens and the 1980s, which led her to fragile garden-party frocks with handkerchief hemlines; shirred go-go party dresses speckled in posies; blowzy harem pants and voluminous sleeves.
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Barreling around the stage, her eyes ablaze with indignation or melting in sympathy, Ms. Phaneuf turned the character into a whirlwind of comic energy tinged with pathos: a bit Blanche DuBois, a dash of the blowzy Maxine from "The Night of the Iguana," but with the braying mouth of Phyllis Diller.
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With his tangerine skin and white-circled sun-bed-goggle eyes, his candy-floss blond comb-over and too-long bright red ties and blowzy Brioni suits, he is a cartoon of a politician straight out of late-night TV: risible and seared into your retinas at the same time.
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" Curiosity drove her to take on the role of the genial dance hall girl Charity Hope Valentine in the movie version of "Sweet Charity," and it prompted her to drop any remnant of personal vanity as Aurora Greenway, the blowzy Southern belle and uptight helicopter-mom to Debra Winger's rebellious character in "Terms of Endearment.
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It was the first grand apartment block to be completed on Upper Broadway. When it opened it had the expected separate servant and freight elevators and separate tenant storerooms as well as filtered water and even provision for charging electric automobiles.[Christopher Gray: "Streetscapes: The Dorilton; A Blowzy 1902 Broadway Belle"]. New York Times 30 September 1990.
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The plot incorporates mistaken identities, dream sequences, spit takes, a deus ex machina, an unflappable English butler, an absent-minded dowager, a Broadway impresario and his Follies production, comic gangsters, a ditzy chorine, a harried best man, and Janet's "Drowsy" (i.e. "tipsy") Chaperone, played in the show-within-a-show by a blowzy Grande Dame of the Stage, specializing in "rousing anthems" and not above upstaging the occasional co-star.
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From the Introduction by Sarah Dunant (2014) in the Virago Modern Classics edition: > In her fifth novel North Face (1949) nursing becomes character rather than > plot. Inside a love story between two guests in a Yorkshire [sic] boarding > house after the war, Renault uses two women in their thirties as a kind of > sparring Greek chorus, ruminating on the morality (or not) of the affair. > Already very much professional spinsters, one is a desiccated prissy > academic, while the other is a blowzy, more down-to-earth professional > nurse. Though the satire is at the expense of them both (at times they are > more entertaining than the rather laboured love story), the nurse at least > feels in touch with life.
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