Word: staccatos
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...entirely in the fingers, not partly in the arms as with a pianist. The music must be written so that it lies, as Kipnis puts it, "all under the fingers." The special gift of the harpsichord is its startling ability to define close-set contrapuntal strands, together with its staccato brilliance...
...performing musician is quite as inflated as the virtuoso trumpeter. Preparing for a good high staccato blast or a long, breath-defying legato lament, the trumpeter can puff himself up so much that the air pressure inside him may exceed that of an average automobile tire (24 lbs. per sq. in.). No other wind player can make that statement. No other musician can literally become so dizzy so easily. No other has such a constant fight between muscular tension and interpretive relaxation and grace...
Colorful Crew. A number of other features are far more satisfying. The front of the magazine is dominated by staccato reportage under the heading "The Insider." The terse items on politics, journalism, show business and consumer affairs are uniformly lively and informative. A full-length piece by Joan Barthel attacking the stratospheric costs of medical care is solidly done. Ruth Gruber contributes an absorbing profile of Valery Panov, the Russian dancer whom Soviet authorities are persecuting because he wants to emigrate to Israel...
...recent years, Halberstam has been supplanted as the nation's premier investigative reporter by Seymour Hersh, who revealed in staccato succession the MyLai massacre, illegal air strikes against North Vietnam in 1971, and, most recently, the one and one-half year long secret bombing of Cambodia...
East and West may talk of détente, but along the Berlin Wall the dominant sound is still the staccato of the machine gun. Almost every night the "Grepos," East Germany's infamous border police, turn on their searchlights and open up at a fugitive real or imagined, who they think is trying to cross into the West...