Word: staccatos
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Edward Golden, as the stranger, is a fine mixture of bewilderment and exasperation, as he plays against a uniformly excellent cast of Contemporanians--James Rieger, Steven Stearns, Ann Rand, Tina Cowley, and Randy Redfield. Background piano music during the intervals maintains the staccato rhythm of modern speech that Richards handles so well...
...phrasing patterns in the work. The thunderous 32nd notes in the introduction were played too slowly and without the indicated rest beforehand. Not even in syncopated rhythms was the uniform level of long bowings varied. The last movement was indeed played with a bright and appropriate staccato, but Mr. Greenebaum, as if mistrusting the work's power to hold attention, inserted an uncharacteristic and unwarranted dynamic change...
...with The Long, Long Trailer (TIME, Feb. 22 )-to make the tricky segue from the electronic to the silver screen. The transition is fairly well accomplished in a general way, though sometimes what goes big in the parlor gets lost in the movie house (e.g., the staccato monotone, urgent and effective when the actor is only ten inches high and has to exaggerate plenty to get attention, is just a meaningless affectation when he is 20 feet tall...
However much anyone could question his aims, no one could question Mendèes' courage. Last week he walked into an Assembly that resents the way he has gone over its head to the people, and told the deputies in his flat, staccato tones: "If the negotiations should fail on July 20, we would have to safeguard the expeditionary corps ... In other words, it means sending conscripts...
...Behind his desk, he is sure of himself, knows what he wants to do and how. At home he is an amiable, storytelling host whose best jokes are on himself, who loves to sit around with old cronies, sipping Scotch and water and bursting out with gusts of staccato laughter. He lives in a handsome, ten-room house north of Seattle, with his wife Mary Ellen Field, their son James, and three daughters, Dorothy, Nancy and Ellen. Allen likes to dance, fish, play squash and golf, but seldom has time for such planned fun. On the golf course, he drives...