Word: flashbacks
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...week declared war on the English language. Worried about the incursions of terms like le whisky and le weekend, the government banned 350 offenders from official usage and urged the French to drop them from everyday currency as well. In place of the Anglicisms, the government proposed French substitutes. Flashback, for example, can be replaced by retrospectif; hit parade will succumb to pal-mares (literally, prize list); one-man show will be rendered spectacle solo; tanker will become navire citerne...
...itself as in its effects. The measures taken to mask the incident become a paradigm of the process of myth. Bertolucci suggests the perpetual, inexorable influence of the past by the ingenious expedient of having the characters-the mistress, the father's comrades-look in flashback as they do in the present: the same age, the same aspect, even, at times, a suggestion of the same costume. It gives a disquieting, eerie sensation, like staring into a mirror and seeing everything save yourself decades younger...
...bilidity on the part of a film-maker. His examination of The Clown's Evening is, however, sufficiently perceptive on all counts to make this weakness merely an organizational problem. Attaching defailed comment to extensive paraphrase. Simon gives a clear picture of Bergman's command, particularly of the nightmarish flashback done with heightened contrast and masterful manipulation of sound. Drawing somewhat on earlier analyses by British critics Peter Cowie and Robin Wood, he integrates his observations, obtaining a more complete picture of The Clown's Evening than has been seen before...
Through the book titles, then, we see Bach flying and flying and flying. But not before he appears in a flashback at age 17 polishing a friend's plane for flight lessons. Then he is off. In an F-84, thundering toward the target on a mock strafing run. In tight formation with the National Air Guard, tensely but proudly crowding in under his flight leader until the rudder of Bach's plane is blackened by the leader's exhaust. The voice of the late John F. Kennedy rises through a dissolve that shows a New Jersey Air Guard unit...
Neither team could get its offense untracked. Crimson coach Robert Decherd blamed the absence of players, such as Henry "Blockbuster" McGee and the playing conditions for his team's difficulties. He also criticized flashback Dean Swanson's occasional tendency to run in the wrong direction...