Word: stacatto
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...book is not a landmark like Cat's Eye or The Robber Bride. Nevertheless, Morning in the Burned House is solid and thoughtful, an inventive re-working of familiar Atwood themes. It also accomplishes what has become increasingly difficult in an age of obscure poetry: In a spare, often stacatto language, Atwood themes. It also accomplishes what has become increasingly difficult in an age of obscure poetry: In a spare, often stacatto language. Atwood resurrects the simple beauty of the poetic form...
Twenty people rushed onto the state and flung dancing frenzy. Dressed in carnival gear, they cavorted time to a stacatto drum. With these debauched revels House Drama Society production of Measure to Measure off to an electric start. But before long, it lost its way acting and innovative direction, the production through the text, without any overriding logic...
...himself as Mars Blackmon, the supersonic-mouthed, puny-limbed biker who 10-speeds directly into the camera at his first entrance. With big aviator frames, high tops, and an imposing, gold-plated "MARS" necklace, his mere presence inspires laughter. And his street-patter has proved to be contagious: Mars' stacatto delivery of "please, baby, please, baby, please, baby, baby-baby, please" is mimicked all over town. Some movie mavens have dubbed Lee the new Woody Allen and it's true--he saves all the best jokes for himself. But sweet, street-smart, and boastful, Lee's assumed persona...
...voice is going to die out, then I want to make sure it dies out at least having given me a chance to try and get a better position in my field." What kind of position? "Like Madison Square Garden," he says with big eyes, and then a stacatto laugh. You see, Meyreles explains, "I've always had this dream of...well, being famous...
...musician jokes that he will know he finally made it "when I hit the New York Times entertainment section." But he follows it with another stacatto laugh and then says, "I've already made it. I'm there. The only thing I can do now is make a little more money or get a little more recognition in what I do. Whether I do it in the street or in Madison Square Garden, it's going to be the same thing...