Word: scrimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than a millennium away from 1968, when the season celebrating the Saviour's birth is a time of commercial convulsion. Even many of those yearning for piety find Jesus elusive, a shadowy problematical name in history rather than a symbol of ultimate reassurance. Seen through the scrim of contemporary anxiety and unbelief, everything about the Bach-family Christmas seems to be a quaint anomaly...
...outset, Androcles' name in Greek-alphabet capitals hovers over the stage. A yellow scrim hangs in front, with sunflowers traced on it. As Tharon Musser's lighting changes, suggestions of a lion's head appear; and shortly some slinky jazz with a perky clarinet over a tonic-dominant ostinato ushers in the Lion (Ted Graeber) with a lioness (Jane Farnol). The two animals perform a semidance pantomime, until the Lion gets rid of his partner. Shaw's script calls for no lioness, but this seems a quite acceptable bit of directorial padding. When alone, the Lion does some pushups, indulges...
Available next week throughout the U.S. for the easily disposed of price of $1 will be Scott Paper Co.'s easily disposable paper dress. Made of a flexible triple-ply, fire-resistant paper reinforced with rayon scrim, the dress is a sleeveless shift with two pockets, comes in four sizes and a choice of design-gay bandanna print or eye-arresting...
Last night the team held its first scrim mage. But it was only a half-field practice, since they had to set up nets on the Solders Field pitcher's mound...
Since the theater's arena stage has no orchestra pit, Conductor Thomas Nee had to direct his 30 musicians behind a scrim curtain at the rear of the set. He followed the action over stereophonic earphones, delivered his cues to a closed-circuit TV camera that the cast monitored on two concealed screens...