The sisters become involved in a shifting game of romantic entanglements that include a celebrated reclusive writer, a semi-retired lawyer, a Hollywood-bound schemer, an epidemiologist, and a couple of vacuous hangers-on.
And she sends up saintliness - and perhaps Sybil - when she freezes in the pose (head on one side, vacuous smile) of the sort of dear little holy person you might see in a stained-glass window.
At first her performance comes across as a tasty, satiric take on the type of vacuous California screen goddess who usually peaks well before 30.
At one point, O'Rourke reflects on the vacuous activities available in New York City, musing on how he could walk into a bar and "drink Pinot until bohemianism and Billie Holiday worship saturated my soul and I was drunk, drunk, drunk".
So Ben has used his family name as a platform on which to comment on the vacuous nature of talentless kids profiting from their family name.
I remember (with some embarrassment) an issue of the English Department student magazine, Gorgon, in which I published a long, shapeless poem, full of vacuous profundities, based on Allen Tate's "Ode to the Confederate Dead," and in which Heaney had a short, shapely poem entitled "Aran": it was as modest as mine was pretentious, as precise as mine was vague.
You could dump any number of superannuated admirals in there, publish any number of vacuous strategic papers and nonpapers on the letterhead, accept any dodgy country for membership or association, and hold summits in all possible placements and protocols.
Just for Show is, as much as anything, Newson's comment on the vacuous aesthetics of abstract dance.
Grim lunch with shadow chancellor Dully McDullvoice – "Oh, I never drink before autumn" – who delivered a droning lecture on the vacuous tautology of contemporary humour.
