Word: flashback
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...book, the significant part of the plot takes place in the form of a flashback, imaginatively set up by the use of sliding backdrop. The action moves from the present to the late 1920's without an obtrusive break, from Westchester to a Massachusetts town named Clyde (presumably fashioned afer Newburyport...
...angry Raymond Massey, who, as Nathan the Prophet, speaks loudly and carries a big stick. All can be made well-and obviously will be-if David will return to the prayerful, God-fearing ways of his youth. While David prays, the movie unaccountably wanders off on a tangent in flashback, interrupting its climax for a blow-by-blow account of how young David slew Goliath, played by hulking (6 ft. 8½ in., 320 lbs.) Wrestler Walter ("The Polish Angel") Talun...
...Heart of a Man, Novelist Simenon poses a standard fictional question: What does a man think, feel, and do when suddenly forced to face the imminent reality of death? Unfortunately, the answer in this case tends to dribble away in leaky flashback reveries with seamy Gallic overtones...
Levi's latest book, The Watch, is a flashback to Rome just after the liberation. Based mainly on Levi's actual experiences (many prominent Italians are said to be vaguely recognizable in its pages), The Watch bobbles along without story line or character development. More than anything else, it is a series of literary angle shots of a great world capital, disorganized and politically adrift. The street scenes-Rome's open black market, the shooting of a Fascist informer by a partisan in broad daylight-read as though they had been planned as paintings, full of sensuous...
...Mussolini nor Stalin. While "times were far from peaceful, life had more beneficial organizations and more of the elements of constructive happiness than exist in a 'civilized' world where scientific progress has been prevented to the business of killing." Maybe, say the mediaevalists, the twentieth century needs a quick flashback to what it snobbishly calls the Dark Ages...