Word: flashbacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cosby Show makes a graceful, understated exit. There is no grand climax, tear-jerking finale or other last-show gimmick, and only one nostalgic flashback (a father-son talk from the very first Cosby episode). In the last scene, Cliff and Clair perform some minor business about a broken doorbell, dance together, then stroll off the set. Stepping out of character, they walk arm in arm through the cameras, crew and applauding studio audience. And, with becoming modesty, into TV history...
...starry cast (Ben Gazzara, Ellen Burstyn, Estelle Parsons and Mako) and a gongs-and-samurai dreamscape production. The plot hinged on hints that a Japanese tycoon who bids on a clapped-out bicycle factory may also be the stockade guard who tortured its founder (as recalled in gruesome flashback). But that identity was never settled. The larger debate was too relentlessly evenhanded to change minds, and the show closed...
...Flashback--four-woman vocal group. South Station, Boston. Friday, Feb. 14, noon-2 p.m. Free...
...declaring his long-shot challenge to George Bush for the Republican presidential nomination, conservative columnist Pat Buchanan toned down some of his reactionary ideas. But he retained enough traces of xenophobia to sound like a flashback from the isolationist 1930s. Launching his campaign in New Hampshire, where the first 1992 presidential primary is only nine weeks away, Buchanan demanded no less than America's retreat from the world at flank speed...
...Flashback to 1990: Penn dominates the offensively lackluster Harvard football team in the first half, and runs up a 24-7 lead at rainwashed Franklin Field in Philadelphia...