Flash mobs - brief group assemblies usually for some whimsical purpose like dancing or pillow fighting - go commercial at the Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort near Naples, Fla.
At the other end of the space, a queen size bed displayed the block-print quilts and shams of Roberta Roller Rabbit, a line Ms. Freymann introduced in 2003 that features whimsical patterns like dancing seahorses.
And last year, also on Madison, there arrived a Milly boutique, a generous chunk of whose 1,800 square feet has been devoted to three boudoirlike dressing rooms, papered with cabbage roses, dancing ladies or whimsical drawings of the Eiffel Tower.
They range from relatively well-known ailments such as cystic fibrosis and multiple myeloma to obscure and extremely rare conditions with whimsical or hard to pronounce names, including dancing eyes-dancing feet syndrome, lamellar ichthyosis, fibrodysplasia ossificans progessiva, and lysosomal acid lipase deficiency.
There Haring's whimsical barking dogs, bouncing babies and dancing, seemingly rubberized men are all on view in "The Characters of Keith Haring".
In "Fun at Sea," Anna London's whimsical etching and collage, groups of dancing shapes flee their confines like aquatic creatures released from an underwater ark.
He becomes whimsical as he recounts experiences like dancing with a leper who had no feet, for which he received a live cow as a token of gratitude, and a late-night encounter (brokered by a truck driver in exchange for a Janis Joplin tape) with an Algerian mystic.
It was a beautiful celebration featuring an art exhibition along the outer walls of the main ballroom, cocktails and live music, live figure drawing, dinner and dancing, an auction, and a whimsical costume parade.
An artist of the Rococo period, Watteau's fame arose from his Fêtes Galantes, whimsical and theatrical paintings of Frenchmen and women outdoors singing, dancing, flirting, and relaxing with one another.
If Ayckbourn is trying to say something about how destructively whimsical we are in our relationships — how, like the children dancing around the Maypole in "Garden," we get hopelessly entangled in our own desires — his words are drowned out by the sloshiness of the plot.
