Word: staccatos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face and skull, to which the years of adversity and self-discipline have given a sculptural distinction. It might be the head and face of a monk. He waves his visitor to a sofa, then takes a straight chair beside him. Barking his comments at the interpreter in his staccato, rough Mandarin, he fixes his dark eyes on his visitor, brightening with interest at a comment on Indo-China. turning grave as he states his unshakable determination to return to the mainland. Tea is served, and at exactly 6 o'clock an indescribable look comes over the President...
Manic Depression. Health hints were scattered throughout the week in TV's typical buckshot fashion. Omnibus showed the staccato heartbeat of a pretty girl suddenly confronted by a spider, moments later probably scared more viewers than it enlightened with a closeup film sequence of a delicate heart operation. Medic used Lee J. Cobb to illustrate the dangers of manic depression in the case of a bachelor bank clerk. The Search, explaining that marriage produced so many problems because it was the most complex of all human relationships, blamed most failures on the lack of adequate communication between husband...
Painter Gerassi is a heavy-muscled, egg-bald man of 55 who talks with staccato forcefulness in a thick accent-English was the last of many languages he picked up. Raised in Spain, he first resolved to be a philosopher, went to Germany to study. "I wanted to find out the sense of life," he recalls. "I found out you don't find out anything but speculations...
...short woman in a faded print dress who had buttonholed me on the steps of the State House. She had a florid complexion and staccato manner of speaking. Waving a sheet of yellow paper in my face, she introduced herself as Mary Keith Norton...
Edward Golden, as the stranger, is a fine mixture of bewilderment and exasperation, as he plays against a uniformly excellent cast of Contemporanians--James Rieger, Steven Stearns, Ann Rand, Tina Cowley, and Randy Redfield. Background piano music during the intervals maintains the staccato rhythm of modern speech that Richards handles so well...