Word: back-and-forth
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After a first half 35-35 tie, the opening three minutes of the second stanza were characterized by the same back-and-forth action of the first half. But at 16:36, Needleman, running full tilt, took a pass from junior guard Steve Selinger and canned an unmolested fast-break layup. Ken Wolfe followed with another layup; Jenkins added a jumper and the Crimson owned a lead they would never relinquish...
...share certain childhood memories," one is enjoined against "flipping through Speak, Memory [Nabokov's autobiography] in quest of duplicate items." Instead, the dutiful reader -always feeling vaguely inferior to the ideal Russian reader-is urged to concentrate on "the echoing and linking of minor events, in back-and-forth switches, which produce an illusion of impetus: in an old daydream...
...After back-and-forth action, the Harvard offense suddenly exploded and scored three goals in 22 seconds to put the game out of reach for B.U. George Murphy scored the first with an assist from Dwight Ware. The sophomore line of Owen-Cavanagh-DeMichele then came on the ice and Owen scored twice, the first assisted by Cavanagh, the second by Cavanagh and sophomore Terry Driscoll...
Soyinka's play circles this situation at inordinate length, talking to itself. The talk is at its best in the satirical back-and-forth among the dictator's six stooge councilors, whose function is to carry on "disputations" in order to arrive at the correct political interpretation of whatever matter is at hand. Sometimes the talk climbs into the foothills of poetry, as in the rich rodomontades of the grey-bearded tribal chief, played with ferocious gusto by Douglas Turner, the company's artistic director. But for the most part, Soyinka's language is clotted...
...used excessively for the sake of gimmickry or shock. But the fact is that innovation is no longer the private preserve of the art houses but a characteristic of the main-line American movie. Two for the Road, otherwise an ordinary Audrey Hepburn vehicle, has as much back-and-forth juggling of chronology as any film made by Alain Resnais-not to mention a comic acidity about marital discord that is as candid as anything the Swedes have said. Even a conspicuous failure such as John Huston's Reflections in a Golden Eye bleeds color images through black...