"The Glass Menagerie" (1945) looked backward to the thirties and to the sacrifice that came with that grim decade.
The winner of this game will be chopped into jambalaya by the Saints in the first round, but at least the Rams can look forward to 2011 instead of backward to 2005.
There were also precious few male partners, despite the efforts of intrepid cross-dressers like Baronda Bradley, a supply-chain logistics consultant from Fort Worth, Tex., and well-known Austen society fashion plate, who was wearing a tweed jacket and paisley waistcoat over a 1940s corset turned backward, to achieve a sufficiently stiff male carriage.
"Merrily" revolves around three friends — Franklin, Mary and Charley — beginning in 1976 as jaded adults and playing backward to 1957 when they were just starting out, full of hope and optimism.
One column was titled, "Joe Lieberman: Forward to Tomorrow's Fresh Start," while the other was labeled, "Howard Dean: Backward to Yesterday's Tired Ideas".
The administration, excoriated by Republicans for underestimating the deteriorating security environment in Benghazi, Libya, that led to the killing of four American diplomats last Sept. 11, is bending over backward to avoid a repeat.
Now begin working backward to today.
In 2008, Barack Obama bent over backward to defuse suspicions from gun owners and their chief lobbying group, the National Rifle Association.
One of the best exercises for identifying this vision is to picture your deathbed experience and then work backward to today.
"Step Inside This House" (1998): Texas songwriters bend over backward to tip their hats to other Texas songwriters.
