Word: staccatos
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...think you could never tire of W.S. Gilbert's witty libretto or Arthur Sullivan's spirited score, but The Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players (HGSP) prove that boredom is indeed possible in Constantine Arvanitakis' mediocre production of Trial By Jury and The Sorcerer. After close to three hours of staccato notes, operatic singing and overacting the audience is more inclined to climb the walls than to applaud...
...scene ought to be agony. Yet each time Bella rearranges the seating, dictates the flow of conversation or interrupts her tongue-tied tale to say, "This is not the way I pictured it," her frustration gets a mounting laugh. At the climax, her staccato pleadings fuse into an aria of justified rage and saintly forgiveness toward the limits imposed on her by life and by her loved ones. Abruptly, spectators who were crying with laughter are simply crying, without any sense of being manipulated. The ability to find humor in unlikely places, then shift emotional gears with no machinery showing...
...Waterloo -- and lose limbs, mind and nerve -- on the playing fields can perform social service instead, teaching English to immigrant children or reading to the handicapped. And one recent Sunday evening, the red brick classrooms along the crooked streets were buzzing with students chatting over their terminals and the staccato music of computer printers...
Style: Style also communicates amessage. Staccato phrases or incomplete sentencessuch as "Designed data collection system. Analyzeddata and prepared 60-page report." give anefficient, action-oriented impression. For somepeople, the flow of complete sentences is moresuitable...
...cocking my thumb, I can swoop down among the skyscrapers. I can wheel by the Space Needle, close enough to hear the clatter of silverware in its restaurant. I can dive beneath the deep- blue surface of the sound, go swimming with the whale and bask in the staccato chatter of its birdlike mating call...