Word: staccatos
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Biden's intimates can see trouble coming, as they did earlier this month. A reporter mildly challenged him about earlier speeches in Iowa. Biden responded with his devilish Jack Nicholson grin, a sign that a wisecrack is winning the struggle to get out. Then came his staccato chuckle -- heh-heh-heh -- and the zinger, a complaint that the newspaper had been too cheap to send the reporter to Iowa. As he often does, Biden later apologized...
...last week when the South African State President addressed the opening session of Parliament. Walking behind the sergeant at arms carrying the ceremonial mace, Botha entered the whites-only House of Assembly in Cape Town and faced the newly elected members sitting on green leather benches. In his schoolmasterish, staccato delivery, he told them that his government stood firmly on the principle of politics by segregated racial groups and that those who disapproved would not be permitted to use violence or otherwise break the law. Declared Botha: "The fact that certain legal arrangements may not be acceptable to some people...
...adulthood. They hook their needle-like claws into the surface, arch their backs to break their skin and then wiggle free. A day later they are ready to fly away. All of this is merely a prelude to courtship, with the male cicadas seeking to attract mates with their staccato siren song, produced by vigorously vibrating two drumlike appendages on the abdomen...
...musical calligraphy"), but self-defense comes in handy too, as with suggestions that parts of The Mission echo the choral medievalism of a Carl Orff war-horse: "There is nothing in The Mission that reminds one of Carmina Burana! When people hear the choir singing out loud and staccato, they believe that is Carmina Burana, but they are deaf people who don't understand!" But no excuses are really necessary for his music. He may, right now, be the best orchestral film composer in the world, and it does not take a mother's pride to think so. With...
...messages were often written in a kind of furious shorthand, using abbreviations, initials and acronyms at every opportunity, as though the writer were too rushed to tap out the entire word or name. AMCITS stood for "American citizens," NLT for "no later than." Vowels disappeared from staccato sentences: "We will not be trying to adjust yr sched for next June for this mtg." Oliver North's memos, often typed on his computer late at night and sent directly to his National Security Council superiors, read like the dispatches of a man with no time to waste, a man obsessed...