Word: staccatos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alternating between jungle staccato and mellifluous French, three men and two women described a Dali dream...
...radio's own standards, Corwin has produced much of radio's best. His formula is well known: staccato phrases, sharp contrasts in voices, sound effects exaggerated like a Hearst headline. Corwin's stock in trade is "the common...
...attend. As soon as he arrived, he would be plied with drinks ("I think drinking is only good if done to excess," he says) and virtually chained to the piano for the four hours or so it takes to go through his repertory. Sample burlesque (on radio's staccato-phrased, sentimental Scriptster Norman Corwin...
...transmitter, sending continuous radar waves, would not do, for the same reason that a man roaring incessantly at a cliff would get back only a confusing noise. To get a clear, time-able echo, he must utter a short, sharp shout. That is exactly what radar does. It sends staccato "pulses" of electric energy, each less than a millionth of a second in length, at a rate of about 1,000 a second. Each pulse has time to make a round trip (about a thousandth of a second for a target 100 miles away), and record its message without interference...
...Only three, by virtue of "long experience," are "pre-eminently qualified": sober, tomb-toned Raymond Swing; painstaking, calm-voiced Edward Murrow; ponderous, staccato-voiced Johannes Steel...