Word: scrims
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This government office building is not only a smashing addition to the skyline, it's also green to the core. For one thing, its steel-mesh scrim is both a sunscreen and a design element that steps in sharp accordion folds at plaza level. A cutting-edge building, in all ways...
...Clarity," ironically, happens to be the verbal scrim the Administration has used to cover its agenda in pushing legislation on the treatment and judicial fate of terrorism suspects, which effectively rolls back key provisions of the Geneva Conventions. The President repeatedly insisted that the legislation is needed so that American officials interrogating suspected terrorists know what they can and cannot do, and, more darkly, that they know they won't be prosecuted for what they do. Of course, the competing measure sent forward by the Armed Services Committee Thursday night is also clear - maybe "don't torture" is a little...
Vienna, staged off-Broadway in a church, has a sporadic text by Historian Charles Mee Jr. but nothing like a narrative. Played behind a gauzy scrim, it juxtaposes lyrical nudity and erotic mania, chivalrous honor and military obsession. Some of the images may be dreams, recounted by Freudians in the city where he practiced. Some are chillingly literal and hint of worse horrors yet to come: one woman, speaking in German of a pleasure jaunt, appears to mention Dachau, where the Nazis built a concentration camp. Most striking, however, are the wordless tableaux: the supple blond man who, with boots...
...rally his countrymen to nationalistic zeal. But in Director Adrian Noble's post-Falklands vision, the play becomes a chronicle of doomed and bloody consequences of meddling abroad. In its most striking visual image, the names of the dead from the Battle of Agincourt are inscribed on a scrim resembling the Viet Nam memorial wall in Washington. This sobering reminder of the wages of war remains onstage during the final lighthearted scenes, when the King shifts from fighter to lover, as if to mock his charm. The production is vigorous, persuasive, at moments unforgettable, and in Kenneth Branagh...
...clapped and they grinned at us, proud. Seen in the light of day, or by anyone with an ironic bent, the cardboard boat and the puppets and the dragon would have seemed bedraggled, pathetic—but on New Year’s Eve, under streetlights blurred by a scrim of drizzle, their innocence made them seem vulnerable, like the first blades of grass to pierce the mud in early spring...