Word: staccatos
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...double subplot to forward Feliks' machinations and throw Cabinets, kings and boudoirs into turmoil. The denouement, in which all the major characters and half the British constabulary descend on Walden Hall for the signing of the Anglo-Russian pact, is one of Follett's finest, with a staccato performance by the deceptively cherubic young Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty. Winston's connivance is echoed in a scene at 10 Downing Street, in which Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and his advisers pass "the Balkans around like a box of chocolates, help yourself, choose your favorite flavor...
...scene was an all too familiar tintype of armed repression and political turmoil, a fitting symbol for the upheaval of the decade. Staccato bursts of gunfire echoed through the streets. Clouds of tear gas hung in the air. A phalanx of blue-shirted policemen, equipped with gas masks and steel helmets, blocked the avenue in downtown Guatemala City. They trained their rifles on the six unarmed men who were advancing, like prisoners of war, with their arms held high. One of them clutched a large manila folder. Its contents: a letter to Guatemala's outgoing President, General Fernando Romeo Lucas...
They just look funny. Jack Lemmon: personification of the Excedrin headache, his sinus cavities almost visible, the corners of his mouth wrenched in a clown's grimace as the voice machine-guns a blast of staccato croaks. Walter Matthau: the epitome of slob insouciance, a flophouse face and shaggy-dog body, wearing clothes like rumpled bed sheets, maneuvering across a room like a hunchback tiptoeing on roller skates. To see either one is to smile; to see them together, in The Fortune Cookie or The Odd Couple or here, working variations on the Mutt-and-Jeff theme...
John Bridgeland spent an hour this Thursday working on his groundstokes and volleys. It was a practice session like countless others: smooth, classical forehands and backhands, lofting topspin lobs, staccato volley winners. Confidently he guided ball after ball toward the opposite baseline, until the varsity arrived for its afternoon workout...
Suddenly, there was the staccato sound of gunfire. Three uniformed men were spraying the stand from the back of the truck; a fourth leaped from the passenger seat and hurled a grenade into the crowd. The grenade landed at the feet of Abu Ghazala but failed to explode. A second grenade hit the face of Major General Abdrab Nabi Hafez, the Armed Forces Chief of Staff, who was also sitting near Sadat, but it too was a dud. The grenade thrower dashed back to the truck. grabbed an automatic weapon from the seat, turned again and began firing...