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...talks of putting together a "new fashion" and how he may once again have to think when he goes to the closet. And he laughs his stacatto laugh, as he often does. But he is really very serious about "the beginning of something new." Since closing his guitar case on the streets in September, Meyreles has formed a band with sidekick saxman Kent White, including a guitar, bass and drums. He wants to record an album very soon, and do what he calls "music/theater--I wrote a oneman theater show for myself. I'm a late bloomer...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Singing the Brattle Street Blues | 10/28/1981 | See Source »

...their shirts reading "Bay City Rollers" (the local rock group that made it big) ran alongside their neighborhood bands. At the beginning of a new tune, the drums would sound a sharp call and the girls would throw up their fists three times, punching the air with a stacatto...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Britain, Orangeism: Pieces of the Ulster Puzzle | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...head full circle. And best of all, she masturbates with a crucifix, jabbing it into her bloodied vagina with great thrusts of her torso, and when her mother rushes to grab the cross from her she slams her mother's head down into her bloody mess, yells a stacatto "Eat me, Eat me, mother," and grins a bloodied wicked grin...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Screaming Yellow Zombies | 1/25/1974 | See Source »

...considerably as the play progresses. The stay of the show is Ken Demsky as Acaste, the foppish rival for Celimene's hand. Kathy Clinton, who does a good overall job of direction, has wisely ignored Richard Wilbur's advice in his play Acaste as blatantly epicene. His waving handkerchief, stacatto monkey laugh, and feigned expression are the comic highlight of the evening...

Author: By Sim Johnson, | Title: Le Misanthrope | 3/4/1972 | See Source »

...round three Johnson came back with a dazzling series of stacatto jabs that rendered Campbell ineffective and drew enthusiastic approval from the crowd. The decision was by no means obvious...

Author: By Peter R. Kann, | Title: TKO's, Bloody Noses Mark House Boxing | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

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