Scrunched up legwarmers with leggings will keep you warm in a cold studio.

Fortunately, the lame, limp lettuce that used to be de rigueur even in better restaurants has gone the way of legwarmers and shellacked hairdos.

Let's just settle for some facts: it involves a really good haircut, which is transforming, it introduces a girl cousin named Frank who wears "a short, shiny red one-piece jumpsuit covered with blue and yellow stars, black-and-white-striped legwarmers, some kind of half-bald feather boa, and silver slippers" to go horseback riding; it involves a family outing to a fish show, where Alice's genius younger brother exhibits his amazing fish.