Word: staccatos
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...eyes was a sign on an open lot proclaiming Vende-Se. "That means 'for sale'-and those are the only words I understand in this language," the American explained. Then he bounded out of the car and swiftly paced off the dimensions of the property, rattling a staccato of questions to a tag-along group of aides: "Who is the owner? What's the tax rate? How many cars go by here?" After several minutes of inspection and interrogation, he hopped back into the car and called out impatiently: "Well, let's get going. Daylight...
...tense, lonely, anguished voice. As a young man he wrote impeccable poems that sounded just like Yeats. In his 40s he established his own sound in the loose series of hundreds of "dream songs" in which an alter ego named Henry spoke the author's mind in slangy, staccato rhythms. Henry appears in some of this collection, but Berryman had moved away from songs to these final, racked prayers...
...lipsticks were authentic. He and his cinematographer emulated the visual style of the period, eschewing zoom lenses, fast cuts and jarring closeups. They used many longer tableau shots, achieving emphasis with subtle framing and lighting. Coppola edited it all together in what he calls a "legato" rather than a "staccato" rhythm, enabling him to build tension gradually and effectively over the picture's three-hour labyrinthine development...
...punching 33363213, for example, a telephoner can play a respectable rendition of Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head. Tapping out 1199009 will produce Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, and 0005 8883 calls forth the first bars of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. With some practice, and the use of staccato and legato on the appropriate notes, even more sophisticated tunes are possible: When theSaints Go Marching In and Around the World are two often played examples...
...painter as architect) evoking the bohemian conviviality of pre-war France; clippings from French or Spanism newspapers contrasting the national characteristics of a dapper "Man with a Hat" with a Spanism-speaking guitar. Picasso's use of musical motifs is evidenced by the many studies of guitars; Cubist fragments, staccato rhythms in line and space, the illusion of projected sound created by the protruding opening in his "Guitar" sculpture. Blazing color and musical notes, his "Three Musicians" link abstract shape to abstract shape to become the instruments they are holding, while his multi-planar "Harlequin" dances jerkily to the tune...