By RICHARD HOLMES
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER BENFEY
The twin energies of scientific curiosity and poetic invention pulsate through this study of the Romantic generation’s “second scientific revolution.”
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The opening scene is a vast cartoon, projected on a scrim, with viewers zooming past clouds and mountain peaks to an egg, which falls, bursts and gives birth to Monkey. The scrim goes up, and the cartoon dissolves into a stage full of flipping acrobats, a monkey tribe flying from bamboo pole to bamboo pole. The score pulsates with an electronic beat.
- Main Entry:
- scrim
-
- Pronunciation:
- \ˈskrim\
- Function:
- noun
- Etymology:
- origin unknown
- Date:
- 1792
1 : a durable plain-woven usually cotton fabric for use in clothing, curtains, building, and industry 2 : a theater drop that appears opaque when a scene in front is lighted and transparent or translucent when a scene in back is lighted 3 : something likened to a theater scrim
to (cause a camera or computer to) make the image of something or someone appear much larger and nearer, or much smaller and further away:
At the beginning of the film, the camera zooms in to show two people sitting by the side of a river.
Click on a photo of any student, and it zooms out to full-size.
Television cameras zoomed in on the fans fighting in the stands.
zoom
verb INFORMAL
1 [I + adverb or preposition] to move very quickly:
They got into the car and zoomed off.
In the last few metres of the race, she suddenly zoomed ahead.
2 [I] If prices or sales zoom, they increase suddenly and quickly:
House prices suddenly zoomed last year.
zoom in on sth phrasal verb INFORMAL
to notice and give special attention to something:
Henry immediately zoomed in on the weakest part of my argument.
pulsate
verb [I]
to beat or move with a strong, regular rhythm:
The whole room was pulsating with music.
pulsating
adjective
very lively and exciting:
Rue St. Denis is the pulsating heart of French street life in Montreal.
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