Word: scrim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death of their son. This self-knowledge pervades the stunning finale. The husband has retreated to the Mexican inn where the couple spent their honeymoon. As he waits, on the traditional Day of the Dead, hoping his wife will come to him, she appears behind the haze of a scrim and lights a candle for her son and all the victims of her husband's ambition. But she does not come in. Instead, two sides of a wall close slowly, slowly, and cut her off -- perhaps for now, perhaps forever...
Director Barry Levinson, who has been known to place a sentimental scrim over the past, avoids the temptation here. He envisions old-time Hollywood as sleek, hard and distracted by its own overnight success. The whole town acts like an overhandsome star -- rather like Bugsy's friend George Raft (whom Joe Mantegna plays a little too kindly in the film) -- a dumb guy who thinks his prosperity proves that he's smart...
...seven sketches in Mambo Mouth (Leguizamo makes the transition from one to another by frenetically changing costumes behind a backlit scrim while loudspeakers pump out a salsa beat) grew from improvisations that Leguizamo based on his family and friends and on images culled from TV and films. "I drew on everything that was around me and put it together," he says. "I can only write something that touches me and amuses me, that I feel something about...
Events of this rangy, ambitious novel are seen through the scrim of the author's wrath. Long before terms like environment or ecology came into common use, the rich, fragile jungle of the Everglades was destroyed, its birds and beasts annihilated, its waterways choked. The men responsible might never have heard of the word habitat, but they knew what they were doing, and for some, at least, hardness was tinged with a mute regret...
...ornate Gerard Manley Hopkins. Westward, thankfully, reverses that tendency. It still helps to know that Mulciber is another name for the fire god Vulcan, and that punto in aria is a kind of lace. But these poems speak directly to the reader, as if the writer had discarded the scrim of erudition...