Americans have a friskily self-destructive habit of turning even their best impulses into junk and kitsch; a Beverly Hills hair salon lately had eight models in tank tops and .
One song in the show, I Wish I Were in Love Again, had a friskily sardonic line about "the self-deception that believes the lie.
Before long the girl-shy Whirlwind, drunk with love, is as friskily unmanageable as a brontosaurus in a bridal suite.