Once again the man suggests flying, and finally the bird does, with a backward glance.
Mr. Stoppard sets his trilogy in a rich historical moment, with a backward Russia on the brink of transformation.
Before the ceremony, Rumors that the slugger could be depicted in his plaque with a backward cap abounded.
He adopted the ugliest, most unwanted dogs; his favorite was Remy, a mutt with a backward paw.
Beijing is cursed with a backward political system, yet instead of reform it has spawned a virulent nationalism as a substitute for ideology.
Oliver Sim, the band's bass player and co-vocalist, 6ft 2in with a backward whip of hair, is coming to terms with it being the mid-afternoon.
She rides an elephant, and kicks off her shoes to nuzzle its skin - "he acknowledges this with a backward swing of his trunk".
When it was his turn, one of the boys, an 8-year old named Fernando with a backward Yankees cap, shot a grounder toward second base.
His worst offense was to fling into Amaterasu's chamber a piebald horse he had "flayed with a backward flaying" (a ritual offense).
And there are moments of drama: Jodi Melnick, intense yet slippery, clutches Mr. Gries and then sharply severs the bond with a backward dip of her head.
Is the Book Review an adolescent male treehouse, complete with a sign saying, "No Girls Allowed" complete, of course, with a backward "s"?
