Word: flashback
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That said, this is the one fall series most likely to inspire you to buy a big-screen television. The two-hour pilot explodes with a flashback to Max's escape from a government compound in a high-volume snowmobile chase. The script is mixed: the slang can be forced, the attempts at Buffy-esque humor sometimes fall flat. But it yields up one stunning visual after another--Max perched atop a decrepit Space Needle; nine-year-old Max holding her breath under a frozen lake; Max coolly wheeling Logan down a hospital corridor as an explosion silhouettes her from...
...wife and given her a kiss like the one that Al Gore planted on Tipper in Los Angeles, the screams of "yuckkkkk!" in the media would have been loud and prolonged. The Kiss (allegedly so endearing when performed by the Gores) would have been deemed weird and gross - a flashback to the incorrigible frat boy slob...
...father who abandoned him as a child. Among airport bars, convenience stores and modular housing Jimmy becomes involved in the lives of his father, his black adopted sister, Amy, and his grandfather, also named Jimmy. About two thirds of the way through we are given a lengthy flashback of grandpa Jimmy's childhood where we discover a forgotten secret. By the end we have read a small-scale history of America's last one hundred years...
...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...