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Style communicates a message. Staccato phrases or incomplete sentences such as "Designed date collection system. Analysed data and prepared 60-page report" give an efficient, action-oriented impression. For some people, however, the flow of complete sentences is more suitable...
...fans to take action. "We got two options," he says. "Either vote or hostile takeover. I'm down with either one. We're youth; we have to change things." Pop vamp Madonna literally wraps her otherwise scantily clad body in the American flag and cries out "Vote!" to - the staccato rhythms of her hit song Vogue, ending with the admonition, "If you don't vote, you're going to get a spankie...
Salisbury writes soberly in staccato prose that "from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s" -- the height of the bloody purges of the Cultural Revolution -- "Mao's quarters sometimes swarmed with young women." The Great Helmsman staged nude water ballets in his swimming pool. "Art ensembles" and "dancing partners" were standing by wherever he went. One of Mao's doctors referred to him bluntly as "a sex maniac...
Patrolling the streets in a greasy blue windbreaker, Kreimer adopts the manner of a small-city mayor. His staccato pronouncements, delivered in a North Jersey accent, arrive in sound-bite size. "Homelessness," he barks, "isn't an epidemic -- it's a pandemic." As he holds court at a local coffee shop, relating the tale of how he won a two-year police-harassment case, he keeps an eye on the sports page as he speaks. "Hey, Georgia Tech beat Colorado State." Some of his resentful neighbors will tell you that Kreimer is a publicity-mad hustler...
Style communicates a message. Staccato phrases or incomplete sentences such as "Designed date collection system. Analysed data and prepared 60-page report" give an efficient, action-oriented impression. For some people, however, the flow of complete sentences is more suitable...