BOSTON — In the hopes of channeling one of their most famous postseason moments, Boston reached back 23 years on Sunday and had Dave Henderson throw out the ceremonial first pitch.
But even when Green Day reached back for lightweight oldies like "Longview" and "When I Come Around," the band — augmented by three skilled touring players — was exercising the type of muscle that musicians develop only by playing huge concerts.
But Cher, scheduled to play Anaheim's Honda Center on Wednesday, reached back too for "The Beat Goes On" and "I Got You Babe," both of which she sang as duets with black-and-white footage of her late partner and husband, Sonny Bono.
So, on Monday, George Osborne reached back into the political playbook for a more traditional message.
"Coming out of high school, I was pretty flashy, always wanted to make the crowd say, 'Ooh and ah.' " Hughes reached back for that flash late Friday night when he drove to the basket, spun and banked in a shot as he was fouled with two seconds left.
On Monday, HuffPost reached back out in the wake of the Journal story and got a new statement.
Where Mr. Pinnock's focus was on the later Baroque and early Classical repertory, on Wednesday Mr. Bicket reached back to Monteverdi and the late Renaissance composer John Dowland.
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama reached back to the Clinton administration again Monday to fill four top Justice Department posts with lawyers whose records signal a sharp break from the legal policies of the last eight years.
On Monday, Mr. Bush reached back nine years to single out for criticism a proposal by Mr. Kerry to cut spending on intelligence, the kind of very directed attack that is unusual to hear from a president eight months before Election Day.
When Souad Massi sang at Central Park SummerStage on Thursday night, her voice reached back to Algeria, where she was born.
Just the other day, our own Mary Norris reached back to Latin to invent "penicilophilia," meaning love of pencils.
