Word: flashback
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time), is artful celebrity journalism about the beautiful people of Paris in the early 20th century. This was also when movies came of age; and the novel's shuffling of tenses, from present to past to conditional, has its film equivalent in the flashback--the lightning stroke of emotional teleportation that brings a memory instantly, poignantly, to the mind...
...system will involve too few interceptors to impair Russia's nuclear deterrent. They fear that if the system ever becomes workable it would be deployed against Russian missiles, too. With neither side showing any inclination to back down, the missile-defense controversy is starting to look decidedly like a flashback...
...Virgin Suicides is a movie based on the Jeffrey Eugenides' novel of the same name and told partially in flashback from the perspective of several neighborhood adolescents who recount the events surrounding the disturbing suicides of the five Lisbon sisters. These collective narrators bring us into the world of the Lisbon's and the suicidal domino effect that occurs when the youngest daughter, Cecilia, hurls herself from the second-story window of the family's home at a party thrown in her honor. After Cecilia's death, the remaining sisters are cloistered in the house only allowed to leave...
Putting out a campus publication requires a certain amount of blustery egotism. It's no surprise that overlaps in readership and similar beats foster a certain amount of healthy competition between mags, papers, or otherwise. Previous models of the groovy train stood at the forefront of such rivalries. Flashback to last year...
...those tragic-looking hand-carved crutches. She is adorable, and a perfect figure to represent the suffering Childers caused. That is, the first time we see her. She hobbles around incessantly, silently leading Hodges around. He thinks about her on his trip back. We get another flashback later on and by this point she has gone from a horrifying symbol to being annoying, and faintly humorous...