Dodge's house and studio typify the romantic designs sweeping over Village houses in the 1920s.
Meanwhile, the camp's director, Beth (Janeane Garofalo), has romantic designs of her own on Associate Professor Newman David Hyde Piercee).
But while in past seasons there has been a harshness and dissonance to her asymmetrical wrap dresses, structured taffeta gowns, oversized pants and puff-sleeve tops, this time she decided to seduce the audience with more romantic designs.
The cumbersome though finely painted charabanc of the late James style is pulled swaying along by a frisky pony of a plot, farcical and romantic, designed for stage-lit action.
Jeremy Northam and James Fleet play the director and producer; Ronni Ancona and Greg Wise play the backers from BBC Films and Gillian Anderson plays herself, the Hollywood megastar 'coptered in miraculously at the last moment to play Widow Wadman, the woman with romantic designs on poor, unworldly Toby.
Their films highlight the gleefully or bitterly honest display of sexual impulses that sometimes join with and sometimes cross up romantic designs — and reflect the concrete situations of the characters (and, for that matter, of the filmmakers) far more frankly than was ever possible in the studios' heyday.
His modern, romantic designs for women look like outfits worn by heroines in Zola or Hugo (occasionally Dreiser or Cather) trying to get into clubs in the East Village or to be seated at good tables at the right bistros in Paris.
She also develops a friendship with Callie Torres which becomes temporarily strained when Callie is led to believe Hahn has romantic designs on her.
The men in Mackenzie's life include Cole Nikolai Nikolaefff, "Sea Patrol"), a young handyman who might have romantic designs on his much older boss; and Roger Shepard (Rodger Corser, "Underbelly"), the sexy but arrogant owner of a nearby upscale camp.
