Word: staccato
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...only were the famous Bilbao Song and "Surabaya Johnny written for this musical, but also half a dozen other numbers of rare distinction. Weill creates a dramatic internal rhetoric by alternating abrasive, staccato jazz-tempo passages with languorous melodies of rich and striking beauty...
...evidence--"Give me the molecular structure of the protein which defined Charlotte Douglas," she demands at the book's beginning--is subject to the internal mechanism in each person which attempts to make life more palatable, spoon-feeding it to us bit by bit, memory by memory. The repeated staccato phrases throughout A Book of Common Prayer, like the responsive readings in a hymn book, form the kernels of the emerging past for Charlotte. Like a slightly too-intense light, which reveals the dinginess of a tenement corridor, Didion effectively uses these chorus-like chants and staccato phrases to amplify...
...tall, balding, staccato-voiced multimillionaire-an adviser to statesmen, head of a transatlantic food conglomerate and a director of three great European banking houses. With a French wife and two children in Paris, and an openly acknowledged mistress. Lady Annabel Birley, and two children in London, he lives a heady cross-Channel version of Captain's Paradise. Sir James Michael Goldsmith, 44, juggles all this and just about everything else with the aplomb of a crack gambler -which he also is. His latest gamble, to become an international press lord...
...Team is a tense, staccato account of this and other activities during the 1972-73 war of assassination between Israeli intelligence and its counterpart in the P.L.O. David Tinnin, an associate editor at TIME, and Norwegian Journalist Dag Christensen pieced together this story of international dirty tricks from leads provided by the Norwegian court that tried the Mossad agents...
Created 15 years ago in the west Kingston ghettos by amateur musicians, reggae is characterized by a scratchy, staccato guitar, incessant drumming and full-volume bass. Its rhythm is distinctive because, unlike rock, it emphasizes the first beat instead of the second. Harry Nilsson, Paul Simon, Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton have recorded songs with a reggae beat...