Word: flashbacking
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...story is a flashback to an old nightmare. Yes, Das Dores took the same medication that made headlines 33 years ago when it produced 12,000 severely deformed children around the world. But while the word thalidomide became synonymous with tragedy and its use as a sleeping pill was banned, the drug did not disappear. In fact, it has made a quiet comeback. For all its dangers, thalidomide has benefits that have made it an increasingly valuable medicine when used carefully. Misuse, however, has caused a grim side effect: the reappearance of "thalidomide babies...
...Felt Like Smashing My Face in a Clear Glass Window deftly captures the nihilistic self-loathing of many street kids. At such moments, New York Rock seems pertinent. Otherwise, despite a production of great energy and inventiveness, sweet singing and infectious grins, it's a naive hippie-era flashback with less memorable tunes than Hair or Godspell. -- W.A.H...
...with a wonderful evocation of the sea, as Remedios, a healer-woman, meditates on its shores, contemplating its ability to hold memories of lives past. To make the sea yield up its stories, she touches its saltiness to her tongue, and lets it speak through her in an extended flashback that makes up the novel...
...through the movie, Emma's best friend Candice (Laurie Metcalf) asks her how sex is for a blind person. If these women are as groovy and open as they seem, the subject would have come up years before the time we meet them. More seriously, one of Emma's flashback images is that of her own bloodied face at the age of eight after she has been blinded--so how does she know how she looked after the accident? Also, Emma's lonely apartment is filled with richly colored and patterned fabrics. Who would see them...
...Soviet economy out of its tailspin. To Moscow's radical democrats, however, he personifies what former Finance Minister Boris Fyodorov calls the "lifeless and illiterate state-planning ideology of the red managers." To the West, Chernomyrdin appears little better than a dark horseman of Russia's impending apocalypse -- a flashback to Brezhnevite stagnation whose disdain for the most basic prescriptions of capitalism threatens to destroy reform...