Word: rhythmical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late President's mannerisms--the left hand in the jacket pocket, the cupped right hand jabbing forward in the air. Edward McCormack, running for Governor, invoked JFK's name with liturgical repetition, but his speaking style was more like that of the younger Kennedys. He still had the monotonously rhythmic Massachusetts voice, nervous, clipped phrasing. Like everyone on the podium, he seemed to be staring out at a great imaginary photo-blowup of one of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's shy smiles, carnestly trying to mimic...
...orchestra, under Daniel Hathaway, gives a mixed performance. It shines in the andante sections, where its sound is full, rich, almost velvety. But in the rhythmic, percussive parts it is heavy and uncoordinated, and the strings are sometimes scratchy and out of tune...
...music is often made up of electronic squeals, tics, toes, street noises and shaped silences-in a recent recital at Manhattan's Y.M.C.A., three musicians solemnly performed a modern work composed of exhaling in unison, slapping thighs, rhythmic stamping and throwing things. New dances almost always alarm the conventional, but more than a conventional change seems to have occurred with the frug and its successors-including the alligator, in which a couple lies down on the floor and starts writhing rhythmically...
...been launched a week before and only twelve hours earlier had become the first spacecraft to go into orbit around the moon. At the sound, tears welled in the eyes of Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Jumping to his feet, he led the 6,000 Soviet and foreign delegates in rhythmic applause...
...Foreign Minister Raul Roa, and even Castro's constant companion Celia Sanchez. But it was Castro who set the pace. "Look how I do it," he instructed his interviewer. "I begin cutting from there to here, always protecting myself from the sun. My system is more rhythmic and more systematic." Chop. Thwack. Zing. Chonk...