Word: foreshadows
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...from the Central Highlands in March 1975 signaled that South Vietnam could no longer muster either the strength or the will to hold off the armies sweeping down from the communist North. The fall of Danang late in the month produced scenes of horror that appeared to foreshadow what might happen later in Saigon: panic-maddened South Vietnamese soldiers trampling women and children to get aboard the last American 727 to fly out; desperate soldiers clinging to the landing gear of that plane only to fall off into the South China Sea or be crushed against the undercarriage...
...historical records, but the dialogue, descriptions and thematic patterning bear the author's elegant stamp. Her Antarctica glitters and inspires: outcrops of jet-black rock kept bald by constant winds; prismatic ice masses shot with rose, blue and violet. As Scott and the other explorers recall their experiences, they foreshadow larger events. The dinner parties and official send-offs suggest a fatal national overconfidence. Scott's sensuous, assured wife already has one lively foot in the jazz age. In a hemisphere where seasons are reversed, birthdays and Christmas hint at endings rather than beginnings. Sailing south in summer heat...
...next shift Harvard sophomore Peter McLaughlin took a cross-checking penalty in his own zone, something that would foreshadow the Crimson's sloppiness in the final forty minutes, but aggressive penalty killing stymied the Eli power play...
...takes office, Clinton's ponderous start and hedged pledges foreshadow a turbulent voyage...
That is the inherent problem with presidential debates: what is remembered is the theatrics, the contrived drama, the carefully rehearsed sound bites. Lost in the spin control are those rare insightful moments that foreshadow what a would-be President actually will do in office, the crises he will face and, yes, the fateful errors of judgment that are to be his legacy...