Word: staccato
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From the six strings of his guitar, he plucked the haunting, staccato music that only gypsies can make. "Se toca asi [That's the way]!" cried someone. "Your hands are not of silver, but of gold." He moved among the crowd, found a pretty French girl, and sang her a Spanish compliment: "You are beautiful. Your husband is a silly man unworthy of you, and we should meet tomorrow." The girl smiled in mystification, and De Plata moved away. At last, before dawn, the concert ended. "I have rarely played so well," said De Plata. "I have the guitar...
...famous "Laugh, Falstaff" at the beginning of Act II is marked allegro sostenuto, but it is always sung exactly the reverse, staccato...
...plane touched down on the east-west runway at about 130 m.p.h., rolled 1,000 yds., then swerved suddenly to the right. There was a staccato burst of explosions as all four tires on the right landing gear blew out. The big jet skidded wildly across the field for another 300 yds. Then it struck a parked truck and smashed into the unyielding, 30-in.-high concrete shoulder of a jet taxiway still under construction. The tremendous impact ripped loose the engines and landing gear. Orange flames crackled along the plane's left side and swept toward the rear...
...mixture as before, but some of the salt was missing. Gone were the public snarls at some particular foe. the three-alarm shrillness, the staccato urgency, the distinctive touch of a man who once polished trifles until they sometimes seemed to gleam. The staphylococcus infection that felled him last fall-"Same one Elizabeth Taylor had." says Winchell. not without pride-hit the 64-year-old columnist hard: "I had a time of it for six weeks." Now in Los Angeles soaking up sun, he divides his time between the Ambassador Hotel and his office at the 20th Century-Fox studios...
...selected. Unity and coherence keep the sounds from appearing random, gimmicky or incomprehensible. Continuity of tone color was particularly prominent in Night Music, where long whines, wheezes and whistles soared up one after another among balloons of deep sound burgeoning from beneath. The extra-musical connotations enhanced the experience: staccato bursts that began like machine-gun rounds softened into bird-like chirps...