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发帖数: 755 | 1 By Pam Zappardino, In the Arts | 0 comments
Taking on no less a thinker than Aristotle, Oscar Wilde, in his 1889 essay "
The Decay of Lying" wrote, "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates
Life," which, he continued, "results not merely from Life's imitative
instinct, but from the fact that the self-conscious aim of Life is to find
expression, and that Art offers it certain beautiful forms through which it
may realize [sic] that energy."
It happened last week in Westminster.
The art was a work of literature, a story by Truman Capote about a young
woman in New York City: a story so engaging it was made into a film in 1961,
and its characters are still icons in the American psyche today. Holly
Golightly in her tiara and little black dress, pining for "Breakfast at
Tiffany's," is known even by those who haven't read the story or haven't
seen the film.
And so it happened, in one of those situations to which Wilde referred, that
on last Thursday night a veritable flash mob of Holly Golightlys descended
upon Pomeroy Jewelers - Main Street's answer to Tiffany & Co. - where all
the accoutrements to accent their little black dresses were waiting: tiaras,
blingy earrings, sunglasses, strands of pearls, long cigarette holders (
sans cigarettes, of course) and a sparkly setting. Transformed, the women
seemed all alike, yet somehow different, each finding that expression of
which Wilde spoke and each realizing it in her own way.
The mood was festive. In fact, I can't remember when I've seen a bunch of
people have a better time. Sipping from fluted glasses chilled by frozen
grapes, they had fun with their own "Breakfast at Tiffany's" adventures,
escaping into another world for just a bit. Eventually, they spilled out
onto the street, turning more than a few heads as they made their way to the
Carroll Arts Center, where they settled into the darkened theater. As the
movie they had become a part of began to roll, it seemed that there were
mirrors everywhere, and art and life were, for a brief time, one and the
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