Word: staccatos
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Germany's most-wanted fugitive was last seen in a video that appeared on an Islamic Internet site in October. Eric Breininger wore a black and white turban and fired off a quick round of staccato shots with his Kalashnikov rifle, probably somewhere in the hills of Afghanistan or northern Pakistan. At one stage he espoused the cause of jihad against the United States and allies such as Germany...
...Lowdown: Everett is a linguistics professor at Illinois State University, and in addition to cultural observations like the ones above, he spends a lot of time reveling in his passion for sentences and structure. The Pirahãs language contains just eight consonants and three vowels; their repetitive staccato sounds like indecipherable gibberish to just about everyone else in the world except for Everett. Until he came along, no one outside of the tribe had ever become fluent in Pirahã. A few years ago, Everett made waves in the linguistics world when he challenged Noam Chomsky's idea that...
...staccato effect was odd and disorienting. It contributed to a certain Entstellung—a distortion of classical movement. Yet Elo concluded with a series of lifts that were all the more stunning because of the disjointed dance that preceded it. Suddenly the classical vocabulary had new nuance, because it had been broken down and pieced together again. The finale was the center piece of the show. It achieved what “Next Generation” intended to do—to make the classic...
...Love” or “Ditch That,” a dead ringer—albeit a dull one—for “SexyBack.” The first track and lead single, “Shawty Is Da Sh*!,” rehashes the staccato piano work of R. Kelly’s “I’m A Flirt” and Fabolous’ soporific verse cements his status as one of today’s blandest guest MCs. Dream’s vocal work itself is heavily indebted. He sneers...
...architect responsible for the first piece of Harvard’s new campus revealed his philosophy for green design to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences last night—and how it will extend to his designs for Allston. With a slight staccato lilt that hints at his German origins, architect Stefan Behnisch, known for his environmentally-sound designs, explained that for him sustainability does not simply refer to numerical measures of energy consumption. “It’s more than that. It has a qualitative aspect,” he said...