The paranoia became so acute that some records were played backward to determine if they contained the cryptic "backward masking" of Satanic messages.
Bayern stretched United expertly from flank to flank (see diagram): Robben came in-field, playing backward of square, with the ball then ferried out wide via those in the centre to Ribéry who was hugging the opposite touchline.
Widely acknowledged by rock critics as a guitar virtuoso, Mr. Piamenta, who now lives in Brooklyn, delights in swinging his Fender Stratocaster behind his head and playing backward, a la Jimi Hendrix, while he sings in Hebrew.
Periodically on his new quintet album, "Udentity" (Clean Feed), he produces a jarringly otherworldly sound, like the revving of a car engine played backward at high speed.
But "4th and Forever" is being shown on Current TV (soon to be the home of Keith Olbermann's "Countdown"), the network co-founded six years ago by Al Gore, whose Nobel lecture, when played backward, promises to cleanse civilization of "The Real Housewives".
One of the best "Black Album" tracks is "Dirt Off Your Shoulder," with a synthetic beat by Timbaland that seems to play backward.
Certain rock songs, when played backward on a turntable, were said to pay tribute to the devil.
In a video the artist writes out Tang dynasty poems, but the tape is played backward so that he seems to be erasing them.
The music turns out to be the theme to "Andy Warhol's 'Dracula' " played backward -- a little detail that is quite interesting interpretively and adds a certain edge to the sense of Ms. Baerveldt's ambition.
Experiment 2 tests these competing possibilities by examining whether learning transfers to learned motion played backward in time.
