Word: staccatos
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...speech-elaborately phrased, rich with allusions-sounds like another language amid the staccato din of the New Frontier's verbal shorthand. With his ironic, self-deprecating wit, he often appears to be some misplaced elfin uncle among the intense young men who laugh at their well-worn house jokes only rarely-and hardly ever at themselves...
...horns and lead cornets being particularly fine. With the exception of the oboe and the first stand clarinents, the woodwinds were sometimes painfully shrill, and attacks were not always clean. Perhaps because of inferior equipment rather than lack of playing skill, the percussion section did not have the clean staccato required by Persichetti, Kurka in the Good Soldier Schweik, and Barber in his Commando March...
...seems like 1960 all over again. His theme is certainly the same: the need "to get this country moving again." The Republican Party/ he repeats, says no to "progress," the Democratic Party says yes. Kennedy seldom gets specific about such issues as medicare and tax reform, but he quotes staccato statistics to show how G.O.P. minorities have blocked his programs:' "Last year 81% of the Republicans in the House voted against the area redevelopment bill; 95% of the Republicans in the House voted against the Housing...
Teddy blared into town behind a crack brass band to find a prearranged crowd, replete with pretty girl workers, awaiting him outside the hotel. Pulled up on a sound truck, Teddy began to speak-and his chopping gestures, his thrust-out chin, his flat inflections and staccato cadences were more than slightly familiar...
Strange & Haunting. In the 13-minute unaccompanied chorale Chorus of Dido, Nono as usual used the voice as a musical instrument, at times calling upon performers to jump two octaves, insisting that consonants as well as vowels be stressed, introducing a kind of staccato syllabification that somehow managed not to obscure the text. What gave Dido its strange and haunting power was the deft balance of the vocal writing-so carefully calculated that all 32 choristers were able to sing together without destroying the work's flexible texture...