Word: staccatoed
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...sounds that reverberated through Moscow's Teatr Estrady last week seemed strangely out of place in the drab, disciplined Soviet capital: the salivating slur of a trombone, the mellow wail of a muted trumpet, the throaty murmur of a saxophone and the staccato thunder of drums. U.S. tourists even thought they could identify the nearly indistinguishable melody: Lullaby of Birdland. They were right. At picnics and Komsomol dances, in cabarets and conservatories, the Soviet Union is swinging to the sound of jazz...
...reality inspired in him. While the contemporary French impressionists were often methodically scientific, the German expressionists were both romantic and subjective. Every stroke of the brush was meant to intensify emotion, as if nature were pounding upon raw nerves. Kirchner used quick, jagged strokes that gave his paintings a staccato rhythm. His long and pointed figures had a certain elegance, but they were also painfully intense. As for color, Kirchner sometimes seemed wholly arbitrary: a face could be plum purple or brown; a sidewalk could be candy pink or apple green. The whole idea was to enhance the mood...
Like the creak of wheels on a horse-drawn cart or the dry wheeze of a hand-cranked auto engine, the familiar ring-a-ling of the telephone will soon be only an echo of the past. The telephone of the future will emit four staccato baritone beeps-and this week, in the homes of 300 residents of Morris, Ill., a farming center 75 miles southwest of Chicago, the beep of tomorrow could already be heard. Using Morris as a pilot project, Bell Telephone Laboratories have installed telephones that...
...short ride by Star ferry across the harbor from Kowloon to Hong Kong introduces tourists to a popular local pastime: watching Hong Kong girls, wearing cheong-san dresses slit to the thigh, cope with the wind. The first impression of Hong Kong itself is of noise: the staccato of pneumatic drills, thump of pile drivers, cries of hawkers, click of mah-jongg tiles behind shuttered doors, the shouts of coolies dancing under the weight of bamboo shoulder poles. Brass bands sound funeral dirges in the narrow streets; radios whine the cacophony of Cantonese music; the rataplan of $1,000 worth...
...Warner) is a dandy illustration of the kind of acute thinking that keeps movie nonsense miles ahead of TV nonsense. When the Pharaohs of the small screen plan another shoot-'em-up, they give the tough-guy hero a routine tough-word last name, such as Gunn or Staccato. Hollywood's mentalists, on the other hand, resorted to nothing so crude in naming the hard case played by Frank Sinatra. They called him Danny Ocean. This not only permits a title too baffling to leave the mind easily; it offers a straight line for any number of jokes...