Word: staccatos
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Appearing successively in three filmy, billowy gowns, Actress Bergner played on her audience with the familiar, huskily resonant voice (she practiced in her hotel room, crying sharp, staccato "ha, ha, ha's" up and down the scale), the erectly graceful carriage, the suddenly confiding smile. In stunned silence, the audience watched her run the gamut from regal pride to jaded irony to a kind of enervated despair. Said a damp-eyed Bergner in her dressing room afterward: "Most of the generation who used to know me are dead or disappeared. It's so terribly touching...
Thurs., Sept. 24 Staccato (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Pianist-Private Eye Johnny Staccato (John Cassavetes) has hardly slugged his way through his first two capers, but his style is already familiar: early Peter Gunn, with plenty of room for more polish. Still, Johnny is already smooth enough to take on a black-market baby racket...
Thurs., Sept. 10 Staccato (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Latest en trant in the shamus sweepstakes. John Cassavetes plays Johnny Staccato, the jazz pianist who gets his big kicks as a private eye. In The Naked Truth, Johnny straight ens out a bit of blackmail without missing a beat...
...Kassem saved his real news for the middle of the Big Week. Addressing a graduation throng at Iraq's military college in his controlled staccato, he said: "I assure you that by next Jan. 6 we shall celebrate the formation of political parties," and went on-amid shouts of "Kassem for first President of the Republic"-to promise a new constitution and free elections within a year. Whether in fact General Kassem and his army will dare freely surrender the fruits of their revolution to civilians remains to be seen: the experience of Middle East politics is all against...
...paragon of spaciousness and dignity, recalling the mood of the opening of his F-major "Razoumovsky" Quartet. From the solo piano sentence with which the work begins, it was apparent that Mr. Simonds had lost none of his old mastery. This opening culminates is a series of six staccato chords, which in most performances come crashing forth like so many sledgehammer blows. Under Simonds' hands these chords came out firm but restrained, and sent me scurrying home later to see how the composer had marked them. Sure enough, the chords are designated forte, not fortissimo; and Simonds was being careful...