Word: scrim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three Reagans lunched in the dining room, the prairie sun making bright squares on the floor through the white scrim curtains, memories tumbling forth about raising rabbits, collecting birds' eggs and filling the icebox and the wood stove...
...fact, the disparities were as superficial as a scrim. Both men were driven by adoring, voracious mothers. Both could tell a joke or draw a tear with a melodic or verbal phrase. And both concentrated on what Composer Alec Wilder called "the bone-deep fatigue of urban gaiety." In either case, that last word applied in its ancient and current sense...
...limned by Brecht and Weill, this straightforward musicality puts the brakes on the rambunctious staging. The rhythms of the songs and the pace of the action are too different, which may be why the single most successful moment of the production is the overture, staged in front of a scrim decorated with the Northwest Orient Airlines logo. Blond air hostesses go through the usual check-out procedures, finding some berserk synchronization between their clockwork movements and Sullivan's ravishing score...
...across the stage to warn Brutus of impending doom--an effect which, like the ghost scene in Hamlet, tends to inspire the most ridiculous devices imaginable from directors afraid of seeming naive--Cameron-Webb manages to achieve total straightforwardness. A panel of the Capitol slides up, revealing a blue-scrim sky, and the silhouetted monarch simply walks across it, stops, speaks, and continues on his way. The audience's chills are real...
...martyred child survives with nothing but rage and revenge; Tzili is strangely passive, accepting the insults and the blows as her destiny, if not her due. Kosinski's novel is a series of surreal images; Appelfeld's is a shadow play whose characters move mutely behind a scrim of inexpressible sadness...