Word: staccatos
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...fire were back for "Fetes," and it was a great improvement. But the winds and brasses drowned the strings in their enthusiasm. The same problem arose in a previous performance of Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream. If the whole rear section of the orchestra is tooting along staccato, it must lighten to a man or it sounds like falling souffle...
...Theatre is an ideal home for Strindberg's Miss Julie. The small stage, half-enclosed by the audience, provides the intimacy that Strindberg felt was needed for a sensitive performance of the play. Working from this solid structural foundation, directress Marsha Hutchinson has captured brilliantly the wide range and staccato alternation of moods that mark the degeneration of Julie, a Swedish noblewoman...
Just when it seemed that there had to be a vote, Quaison-Sackey came up with his nonvote formula. "If the Assembly will allow me," he announced in his staccato Afro-Oxford accent, "I would request each head of delegation to call on me in my offices behind the podium and I shall then give each one the means of stating anonymously and in writing the preference of his delegation as regards the filling of the four vacancies on the Security Council. I shall inform the Assembly of the results of this consultation and I shall ask the Assembly whether...
Ironically the charge of "glittering generalities" has usually been used by Volpe's opponents. For years he has suffered a reputation for blandness. This image results primarily from newspaper accounts of his speeches and press conferences. The ex-Governor is addicted to the cliche; if separated from the staccato directness of his voice and the energetic briskness of his gestures, his words seem hopelessly commonplace. Wednesday he began an address to the student body of Westport Academy by celebrating "all these bright shining faces of young people wanting to learn how to be good, solid citizens." He continued the string...
Skeleton in the Alphabet. Possibly be cause of the partial paralysis, Corinth's brushstroke took on a slashing angularity, his colors a staccato spectrum. He studied his own face in 50 oils and 60 etchings; none bear the mark of flat tery, and many show a skeleton looking over his shoulder. His moodiness could only be broken by his wife, Charlotte Berend, a painter 22 years younger than he, and he replied by painting her 81 times...