Meryl Streep can do accents. She can do period dramas. She can villains or heroes, leads or romantic foils, heroic crusaders and seemingly ordinary folks. And then there’s her real-life persona: affable, intelligent, quick to laugh. What’s the essential quality tying all these roles and traits together? Spectacle. Well, spectacles, as in, the woman cannot stop putting on and taking off her glasses. She does it in movies, she does it on talk shows, she does it onstage at the Oscars. Behold the many glasses of Meryl Streep.
