Word: flashbacking
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...TIME: So this isn't a 1980s flashback...
...Davis: No. If it was an '80s flashback, you wouldn't have a Comcast in the picture, you wouldn't have a Blockbuster in the picture, or a Nynex in the picture. These are all strategic investors, as opposed to financial players...
...comes alone to Venice to siesta by the sea. As the film progresses, we learn through flashback sequences that he is also there to recuperate from several emotional traumas, including his sense of failure as an artist and the grief he experienced from his daughter's death. We observe the luxuries and pleasures of Venetian life through his eyes. The man is consumed by aesthetic pleasure for a young boy, Tadzio, whose youthful beauty is matched by the finery of his beautiful mother and siblings. The man's homosexual love is the beginning of his fated exploration into his identity...
There are many, many Harvardisms I have to explain to my friends at other schools: "toppings bar," "expos," "a capella concerts." And, "comping." Use this word, and conversation comes to a grinding halt. Here's a flashback from Thanksgiving break of my first year...
Probably no opera could do justice to its subject's tempestuous 36 years. Jack Larson's static libretto focuses in flashback on Byron's eccentric amatory escapades; the action is framed by the efforts of Byron's friends to win him a place in Poets' Corner. Of his more dramatic travels, battles and death at Missolonghi there is scarcely a word. Such a conception might have worked had Thomson been a composer of passion and power, had he been able to write music commensurate with Byron's words and deeds -- had he been, in short, the Verdi of Otello...