Word: back-and-forth
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...teams have been playing back-and-forth hockey, with no one really taking control. It should be noted that despite shutting the Big Red out, 3-0, last night, Harvard was outshot and didn't really find its rhythm until the second half of the game...
...sets of characters continue to exist in separate dimensions until the last 30 minutes of the movie, when Madea finally goes to jail and actually interacts with a character from the central plot. But these prison scenes do not make up for the confusion caused by the unexplained back-and-forth that characterizes most of the movie. It is interesting, however, to see what Perry makes of Madea in jail. Although the movie culminates in Perry’s traditional Christian salvation for his honest, hard-working characters, the irreverent Madea ironically becomes the moral authority over the prisoners?...
...When Gibbs said the President was done drinking from the Potomac, an aide recalls, the message was received as if it had come from Obama himself, given the frequency with which the two men talk. Gibbs and Obama have developed what Pete Rouse, another top aide, calls a "back-and-forth, locker-room camaraderie" that includes occasional heated arguments with raised voices. "Robert will never pull his punches with the President," says Rouse. They tease each other frequently: asked by Jarrett to describe Gibbs' sense of humor for Time, Obama deadpanned, "Robert is very funny, but I can't remember...
...week. Against a dispirited Alisha Turner of Penn, Mashruwala dominated the final game, 9-1, to take the match, 3-2, and raise her career fifth-game record to 3-0.At the No. 2 flight, Guruge bounced back from her first defeat of the season against Trinity last Wednesday to upend the Quaker’s Sydney Scott in a back-and-forth five-game battle. Guruge played around disappointing showings in the first and fourth games to take the match, 4-9, 9-4, 9-7, 3-9, 9-6.—Staff writer Barret P. Kenny...
...provide reproductive health aid to non-governmental organizations that performed or promoted abortion as a means of family planning. He presented his decision as a conciliatory gesture, arguing that “for too long, international family planning assistance has been…the subject of a back-and-forth debate that has served only to divide us. I have no desire to continue this stale and fruitless debate.” In this claim Obama is half-correct. He has indeed avoided a nuanced debate on this controversial policy, but his firm, agonistic posture on the issue is likely...