backward and forward

In the book he emphasizes that the readiness is all, learning his lines backward and forward before the first rehearsal.

Every renaissance is Janus-faced, he notes, looking “backward and forward at the same time.”

Didion’s grief ripples backward and forward as she struggles to make sense of time.

So in 1991, he had an idea when David Rensin and Bill Zehme published the “The Bob Book,” which Pool described as a paperback that aimed to explore the “name Bob backward and forward.”

He flexed his arms, bent backward and forward, and felt foolish before his wife.