Word: staccato
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...characteristic Bernstein style, Lenny relaxed for only a few moments as a pair of suddenly awe-struck students resumed playing the sonata. Then he jumped to his feet. "No, no," he said. "You play it without feeling. Too much staccato. Please, please, play this more smoothly." Bumping a student as he lunged toward the piano, Bernstein apologized: "I've been to twelve hours of classes today. That can make you a little dizzy...
...Didion evoked a city covered in concrete, highways going from nowhere to nowhere. Perhaps filming that inner vision is doomed to fail, since once we see the traffice, it's too familiar to be as arid as Didion's prose images. Still, Perry's attempts to imitate her taunt staccato sentences with abrupt cutting and flashes to yield signs (symbols, anyone?) just doesn't catch the throbbing pulse of Maria's driving--her personal substitute for suicide. When the action moves out to Carter's shooting location in the desert. Hell is still other people, but Perry successfully concentrates...
...Shepard is a tantalizing playwright. At 28 he has had a dozen or so plays produced. Each has a beat rather than a shape. What is fiercely staccato, and possibly feverishly sick in contemporary U.S. life, holds an undeniable fascination...
...from 1953 at "Abiquiu Trees" and Strand's "Dunes near Abiquiu." (1931 that shows us how both artists were captured of the poetry of the New Mexican landscape. Her pink stand intensify the pastel puffiness of Strand's cumulus clouds blowing over the dunes. While Strand has emphasized the staccato patterns of vegetation almost mirroring the clouds above, O'Keffe isolates two trees and focuses on their branches and on their dominant relation to the environment, a closeup rather than a landscape. (O'Keefe was married to Alfred Stieglitz, the eminent photographer that greatly influenced both his wife and Strand...
Elements of drawing room comedy and theatre of the absurd clash to give Ionesco's play the kind of dramatic tension that makes it simple to perform. A staccato delivery of lines can gloss over non-sequiturs and permits the development of superficially logical chains of reasoning with incredible conclusions, all with the general end of lampooning the English middle class...