Backward
Both words in one sentence
- He peppers his shows with some variation of "After doing some research..." and claims that he only reviews games from the late eighties and early nineties because he's supposedly been playing said games for 20+ years and knows them forward and backward.
Source: Dan Browned -
Two Decades Behind: The premise is absurdly anachronistic, especially since the South wasn't that backward in the late 1980s and the Klan was rapidly being supplanted by neo-Nazi youth gangs by that point.
Source: Film / A Time to Kill -
The only two powers to which he has continual access are Insight (being able to see events going on at the present) and Foresight (being able to see future events; part of the latter is due to Merlin's being born circa the late 20th Century and living backward through time).
Source: Magic A Is Magic A
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