Many die in agony, dragged backwards by boats to drown them.
"I was originally being dragged backwards then pulled into a forwards position, like a water skiing position," McDonald told the court.
It's hard to understand how else she withstood a fall down the stairs, dragged backwards by a dancer while performing Living For Love.
At this point he found himself "dragged backwards into Marxism, against the tanks in Budapest" – and, if his Marxism came "without guarantees", it was nonetheless a vital part of him to the end.
In Fox's view, the album "sounds like a reasonably conventional pop record that's been dragged backwards through a forest after nightfall", while I likened it to "a cross between a confessional and a declaration of independence".
Despite looking like he's been dragged backwards through Shane McGowan's duck pond, Creosote and his chamber-folk band infuse these silent characters and far-away scenes with sumptuous, featherlight melody and a sympathetic grace.
Sky Ferreira's debut, originally slated for 2011 but beset by label disputes and creative U-turns, sounds like a reasonably conventional pop record that's been dragged backwards through a forest after nightfall.
