Word: flashbacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Flashback #1; Strategies and Schemes--It is earlier that day in a restaurant. The pedestrian in the heavy sweater and the pedestrian in the black coat are drinking coffee and reading the newspapers. Discussion centers on various errands proposed and various errands accomplished. It has been a rather unmemorable day. Nothing terribly exciting, nothing terribly dull. Just, you know, a what-the-hell kind of day. Coffees have been drunk and books have been read. Nothing pressing...
...unrelated flashback to the Nazi past, a West Berlin court last week revived memories of one of the key stepping stones in Hitler's assumption of power: the fire that gutted the Reichstag (parliament) in 1933. The court declared a "miscarriage of justice" in the 1933 trial of Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch Communist, whom the accused of started the blaze. By blaming the fire on the Communists, the Nazis nailed down their hold on the nation. The decision last week did not specifically exonerate Van der Lubbe, who was tried by a Nazi court, found guilty...
...story proceeds in flashback us ing Salieri as narrator. The device impedes the dynamics of the play and some times makes the Viennese court seem like a cynically corrupted version of Grover's Corners. Early on, when Salieri is 16, he kneels in prayer and makes a Faustian compact with God. He vows to excel in virtue, magnify his talents and live his life as a tribute to his creator if only God will grant him fame...
More than 83 million television viewers tuned in to Dallas three weeks ago to find out who shot J.R. Ewing. In an hour's time, they saw Ewing's accused attacker, Wife Sue Ellen, stagger around drunk and mourn her former lover. They watched a flashback in which Sue Ellen's comely sister Kristin fired...
...settings are glutted with eclectic religious artifacts and the documentary details of the backwater South. The cast, including even bit players who appear as cops, used-car salesmen and townsfolk, features enough oddballs to staff a Tennessee Williams repertory company. Huston's only lapses are a few purple flashback sequences that accomplish little beyond allowing the di rector to appear onscreen as Hazel's grandfather. Still, those moviegoers who have a taste for Wise Blood are not going to cavil about flaws. It is enough to ride the wild imaginative waves of this singular artistic adventure. -Frank Rich