Another fantasised about a full bells-and-whistles production, on the National Theatre's Olivier stage, of Howard Barker's epic The Europeans.
He'll need to keep his head screwed on, since this low-key run of dates is acting as a sort-of work in progress for a full bells-and-whistles world tour in 2017.
On exiting a toll booth, if he applied the accelerator and then backed off just enough to create a jolt, he could give the toll takers on the Oklahoma highway a full bell musical salute.
There are several gorgeous examples of that signature silhouette, comprising a tight strapless bodice, with a full, bell-shaped skirt – a rustling, silky promise of an age of plenty.
While these pieces are necessary to create a full bell shape in your skirt or dress, they may take your style over the top.
The second dress — ivory, strapless, with a fuller bell at the bottom — did not draw the same level of gasps.
The second dress ivory, strapless, with a fuller bell at the bottom did not draw the same level of gasps.
Christ Episcopal was in the High Church tradition, a full-bore "bells and smells" Anglo-Catholic experience, with Sanctus bells and incense, and the unchanging comfort of ritual solemnity.
New York was in desperate need of a full-on bells and whistles gay club – all having been forced to close over the past decade or so due to spiralling rents and overzealous City officials cracking down on any licence infringements in newly gentrified areas.
And in Paris recently, they were a delight to the eye: the revived Sergeant Pepper jacket; new takes on the mini-crin; full bell-shape skirts; peasant embroideries; and that Renaissance must-have, the forehead band.
