Teetering teams with job openings often reach backward to pluck hope for the future, ghosts summoned to raise the spirit of a new generation.
The exclusionary rule enjoins the Government from benefiting from evidence it has unlawfully obtained; it does not reach backward to taint information that was in official hands prior to any illegality.
In Dorothy's case, the mass in the pancreas turned out to be large and fist-shaped, with malignant extensions that reached backward to grip blood vessels, and a solitary metastasis in the liver.
It is telling that the current edition of "Forbidden Broadway," the ever-acute satiric revue created by Gerard Alessandrini, has to reach backward to find figures with stage identities large enough to satirize: Merman, of course, and veterans like Patti LuPone and Liza Minnelli.
When the distractions finally clear, we are left with a naked portrait of successful self-analysis, of a man reaching backward for the strength to move forward.
However, reaching backward -- as if you were getting ready to throw a ball -- tends to be painful.
With no driveline reaching backward and an engine pushed forward to make a small car roomier, you wind up with a nose-heavy machine that won't corner as neutrally as a vehicle with 50-50 weight distribution.
I am sure it makes some people cringe to realize that both scores contain a musical setting of "Heigh Ho!" In this unbroken and sometimes ironic series of lies is our truth - our fantasies tell us who we are, simultaneously reaching backward while also striving forward, and thus helping us to understand where we are right now.
Cole, meanwhile, may have already won Catch of the Year for the acrobatic haul he made Sunday, reaching backward while jumping and snagging a pass with one hand.
Begin reaching backward, breathing calmly.
