Word: backhandedness
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Writing in Commentary, William Phillips nai's the whole genre by devastatingly describing Burroughs' Nova Express as "the feeding almost literally of human flesh and organs on each other in an orgy of annihilation. The whole world is reduced to the fluidity of excrement as everything dissolves into...
Julius Boros got the sort of backhanded compliment that caddies give big tippers: he was picked as the best man out of traps with a sand wedge. "If I hadn't practiced," said Boros modestly, "I couldn't possibly have won. There are many fine wedge players in...
With 15 holes to go, Lema was 12 under par, seven strokes ahead of burly Mike Souchak. A sudden thundershower made the pros dive for their umbrellas -and almost literally Tony landed on his nose. He lost a stroke at the sixth hole, another at the eighth, two more on...
Neither team could mount as effective scoring offense in the closing minutes of the fourth quarter, but Holy Cross controlled the game from the very beginning of the overtime period. The Harvard defense held, however, until Gunnoe scooped the ball up in front of the Crusader nets and backhanded it...
Nothing is much better than all right in this black-and-white morality play adapted from Howard Fast's novel The Winston Affair. Mitchum plays Mitchum with laconic assurance, and a cast of veteran character actors is warmed up for a first-rate courtroom drama, a la Caine Mutiny...