When Connecticut hoisted the national championship trophy last night, Kelly Schumacher stood in the back of an ecstatic huddle of players and simply held up her index finger.
To photograph the approximately two-mile strip of Sunset Boulevard, Ruscha stood in the back of a pickup truck while a friend drove.
Dayne, the sleepy-eyed running back with a career fading quickly into oblivion, stood in the back of the room at Coughlin's news conference in January, his usual laconic look hiding the reason he was there.
An air conditioned car would have been enough, but we were escorted in our journey by "guards" who stood in the back of the jeep driving in front of us and held the hotel's signature flags.
"He has done, I think, a good job, in terms of, from our perspective, law and order," said Gary DelaRaba, the president of the Police Benevolent Association, who stood in the back of Mr. Gulotta's office Tuesday.
Now, Mr. Dahl, 43, stood in the back of the cool shop, assembling a bouquet of succulents, fuzzy lambs ears, hostas and other drought-tolerant plants.
So Steinbrenner stood in the back of Cashman's box and watched several television replays of Soriano trying to steal third in the third inning.
At a meeting of the Democratic women's caucus Tuesday, 74-year-old Carol Anderson of Vancouver, Wash., a former Hillary volunteer, stood in the back of the room in a Hillary T-shirt and hat signed by Hillary and "Nobama" button and booed every time any of the women speakers mentioned Obama's name.
After the trophy presentation, after Thompson and several of his players spoke to reporters, his father stood in the back of the interview room.
