Word: scrim
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...this genre and stamp her own individual form on her writing. She should carve the story lines out of the characters' lives instead of inscribing them to fit well-worn and obtrusive speculations on the meaning of life. Then the glorious ones' real spirit would shine through the scrim of morals she has hung...
Lady Antonia scants no detail of politics or social trends. The result is a dense scrim of facts that partly obscures the giant size and shape of Cromwell's tortured personality. Every once in a while, his voice rings out memorably-in an outburst at Parliament ("Begone, you rogues, you have sat long enough"), or pleading with a superior not to order tired horses into battle ("They will fall down under their riders if you thus command them; you may have their skins, but you can have no service"). Or, raging at a petition from the Irish Catholic clergy...
Looking like a nineteenth century candy sampler resting on a mammoth paper doily, the printed scrim that greets the Loeb audience is engagingly nostalgic. Unfortunately, the production of The Matchmaker that unfolds behind it is as overly sweet as the candy one would expect to find...
...should I play this scene, Mr. Chaplin?" Reply: "Behind me and to the left." It was more than a critique of the star's egomania; it was also a comment on his politics. From the start, Chaplin was a fan of sentimental collectivism, of revolution seen through a scrim. He needed no Bolshevik primer on poverty. Charlie had risen from the darkest of London slums. His father was a drunk; his mother sewed blouses for 1½ pence per. He and his half brother Sydney had gone the rounds of London's forbidding schools for the destitute. Chaplin...
...show's many dance numbers are mesmeric revels. The cast is totally winning, and so are the demon drummer and his galvanizing group up behind the scrim. In midsummer New York, Golden Bat is a surprising tonic for which one can only say arigato...