Word: flashbacking
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...credit crisis has commentators dusting off comparisons to the 1930s, but so far, this feels more like a '70s flashback. It's not just that Zac Efron's hair is almost as shaggy as Shaun Cassidy's or that jeans are once again worn tight enough to read Braille through the back pocket. It's the whole feckless, zipless, helpless vibe that has settled across the land, from the factories of Motor City to the gas lines of Charlotte, from the boardrooms of New York to the subdivisions of California. What's that word again? Oh, yes: malaise...
...City postal worker, standing behind his caged-in window at the post office. When a man approaches and asks for a stamp, Negron shoots him dead with a German Luger. Later, in Negron's apartment, police discover the head of a priceless statue. The rest of the film, a flashback to Italy in 1944, explains how Negron got the statue and why he executed the stranger...
...Israel's graying baby boomers, McCartney's concert is a chance to catch up on the Swinging Sixties, which passed the country by first time around. Flashback to 1965: The austere socialists who had run the State of Israel since its creation in 1948 had banned television; most music was sung in Hebrew (even imported Broadway show tunes); and most of its lyrics were nationalist exhortations to collective endeavor, struggle and sacrifice - amid the ever-present danger of of war with hostile Arab neighbors. Still, teenagers escaped from the folksy drudgery of their local pop scene by dialing up European...
...relentless transitions to flashback are not always smoothly effected, and de Kretser's appropriation of the discourse of literary critical theory can occasionally bring a jarring register to the domain of fiction, but even these jagged edges are spellbinding because they are so intelligent, constantly forcing us to look under the skin of things. There are all kinds of terrors lurking within the heart of the book - these are for the reader to discover - but the one that is most palpable is the undeniable fact that this book is touched, like Rilke's "terrible angel," by the terror of greatness...
...youthful throngs of Berliners drawn to the show, it's more than a photo exhibit; it's a flashback to one of the defining traumas of their city. Among them are malcontents, to be sure, who are tired of being reminded. "Ah, these scenes are familiar," a dismissive middle-aged photographer complained, "we've seen this kind of stuff so often before." In the guest book another offended visitor protested, "It's bull! You shouldn't be allowed to show the suicide of a Nazi family." But for classes of high-school teenagers brought to the gallery, the show...