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Next up was the $200 Freebord (available at freebord.com) which looks like a regular skateboard from the top but has an extra set of wheels on the bottom that are supposed to let you "slide" across the pavement the way snowboarders slide across snow. Besides rolling forward and backward, you can slide side to side and spin around in circles. If you're really good, you might even master the half-pipe like gold medalist Russ Powers...
...DOES IT BEST The exquisitely flexible Sasha Cohen, left, dips forward in a textbook Charlotte spiral while skating backward with her legs in perfect vertical alignment. Michelle Kwan does her own version of the Charlotte, as well as a signature change-of-edge spiral sequence that almost takes her from one end of the rink to the other...
Stepping into a room hung with Sulca’s tapestries, you’ll first notice your eyes being pulled in all sorts of directions: backward, forward, in spirals and in steps. Sulca emphasizes depth and movement, and every tapestry has its unique geometry. In “Folding the Past,” a panel of colorful cloth cuts through the top half of the black background and then starts to fold like an accordion at the bottom. The series “Past and Future in ‘S’” consists...
...also mod and familiar (the '56 T-Bird). He takes his cue from the notion that you can't move forward without looking over your shoulder, and his popular designs in recent years have ignited a chorus of "Retro!" Which he argues misses the point. It's not just backward, it's about forward...
...Larry Summers is many things but he’s not stupid,” Gomes says—an observation made in the context of rather informed daydreaming about the future of Harvard College. Gomes, with formidable institutional memory and a charming interest in Harvardiana, breezes backward more than 25 years in his memory and proclaims that the future is literally in the hands of students today—editorial writers and protest leaders and student government committee chairs and holders of every position that has ever seemed slightly, well, inconsequential in the bigger picture. Gomes asserts that Summers...