Word: flashbacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...historical terms or in psychiatric terms. One can look at it coolly, from the outside, as geopolitics, weighing the gains and losses and ironies of the war. But then there comes, even to the civilian (we are all, beyond a certain age, veterans of Viet Nam), a vivid flashback, and the mind fills with the war again. It comes back and back and back. Charles de Gaulle called Viet Nam "rotten country," and he was right in a psychic as well as a physical sense. Rotten, certainly, for Americans. Viet Nam took America's energy and comparative innocence--a dangerous...
...this seems like a flashback to the you-are-what-you-feel 1960s, there is a reason: Arquette, 25, is a flower child come to blossom. The granddaughter of TV Humorist Cliff ("Charley Weaver") Arquette, and daughter of a Second City improv artist and an activist poet, Rosanna played in the mud at Woodstock when she was ten and was taken by her mother on peace marches, her naked body painted STOP THE WAR, KILL NO MORE. After the tenth grade she left school in Chicago and hitchhiked to California. "I just bummed," she told TIME Correspondent Denise Worrell. "Then...
...BOOK'S second story, "D. DeMarr" Gerald DeMarr is reunited at his Boston home with his two George, after 20 years of separation. The first part of the novella consists of a flashback in which Gerald recalls how throughout his youth, he and his brother had struggled for their independence from each other. Now, feeling his sense of freedom once again threatened, Gerald takes off for a week at the Cape...
...such a brutal crime. TV's MacDonald, however, is far more transparent. His account of the crime to Army interrogators is halting and unconvincing. On TV talk shows (where he delights in lambasting the Army's botched investigation) he seems oily and mean spirited. Even the flashback scenes of MacDonald's purportedly happy marriage are sprinkled with signs of trouble. (When MacDonald invites some friends for Christmas drinks at the last minute, he blithely ignores his wife's understandable dismay...
...romance skillfully, by using the associations of present to past in Swann's mind. A carriage ride hurtles his thoughts to a passionate tryst with Odette in the same carriage. The technique is confusing at first, since Schlondorf forswears the traditional wavering picture and weepy music school of flashback, but highly effective once the viewer becomes accustomed to the abrupt shifts from past to present...