Word: backhanding
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...could pay him the usual backhand compliment directed at an enduring Hollywood icon and say that he played--brilliantly played--Jimmy Stewart. But that ignores the pioneering vocal eccentricity, the stammer that miraculously made every line seem as if it had just occurred to him; he was Method before Method was cool. And to say Stewart played himself hardly does justice to the near Shakespearean breadth of his characters and performances. The mannerisms evolved; the man grew...
...Gerometta '99 gave Harvard a 4-2 advantage in the second after a Dartmouth tally. Faking a pass on a two-on-one rush, Gerometta slipped a backhand just past the outreached Raymond...
Fellow freshman Brett Chodorow opened the scoring at 13:48 in the first with a tap-in. Sophomore roommates Rob Millar and Craig MacDonald set up the goal for Chodrow; Millar won the puck in the corner and slid it across the crease to MacDonald who managed a nice backhand shot. Brown goalie Jeff Holowaty made the initial save, only to be beaten as Chodorow lifted the puck over the netminder to put the Crimson ahead...
...penetrating backhand allowed him to dictate from the baseline, as he won the first match, 6-0, 6-1. But the number one player from Duke turned it around on him in the next round, winning with ease...
...12th century Emperor Hui Tsung's script, with its flicking exactness of stroke; at the other, the blithely spontaneous notation of the 8th century Zen Buddhist monk Huai-su, who liked to work when drunk on rice wine. And somewhere in between is the long-arm forehand and backhand of the 16th century scholar-artist Chu Yun-ming, whose fierce cursive brush writing came to be revered as an example of moral probity in itself...