Word: back-and-forth
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...second half was a back-and-forth affair, with three lead changes and three ties, the last resulting from Simon’s sharp-shooting heroics in the final seconds. Harvard dominated the interior throughout the game, out-rebounding Colgate 40-27, while the Raiders stayed close by firing away from downtown...
...veritable bacchanalia of inter-student organization excess, the event lived up to the predilections of its namesake. Typically antagonistic undergraduates—fired up by two weeks of back-and-forth salvos between the paper’s editorial page and UC president Matt W. Mahan ’05—smoothed their differences over gallons of cheap alcohol. As the busts of sober Harvard alumni frowned down from the walls, ping-pong balls and sprays of beer flew across the wood-paneled, hallowed halls of the Sanctum...
...time Kerry boarded his plane for Miami, he had gone through four full 90-minute dress rehearsals and more hours than anyone could count refining the back-and-forth on every conceivable question. But before they left that shed for the last time, Kerry took Klain aside. "You know, when we came here, I wasn't sure what I'd get out of it," Kerry told him. "But this has been really, really useful...
Harvard found itself playing catchup against the Bulldogs from the very beginning. The first match went back-and-forth until the score got into the 20s, when Harvard grabbed a 23-22 lead. But Yale rallied for four straight points en route to a 30-25 first set victory, and the Crimson would never seize the momentum again...
...then we discuss," says Bacri. "And if we disagree, we have a rule about complete intellectual honesty, so we'll debate until one convinces the other. Very much like what ends up in our films." In Look at Me, no thought goes unspoken, no comment undissected. The verbal back-and-forth propels each scene - a single sentence can turn a relationship on its head, transform losers into winners, victims into fighters. Speaking to her friend Sébastien about her father, Lolita goes from pushover to pissed off in an instant. "I don't hate him," she says. "I just...