Word: reappearance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...progression of time throughout the book, however, is extremely loose. Consecutive stories may be separated by days or centuries. People are introduced, then left unmentioned for chapters, only to reappear years younger. The past of Koltsovo is explained from the outside in. The details create, rather than support, the image. Through their presentation--a piece here and a piece there--a full picture emerges...
...this haphazard approach to plot development, the storyline often hinders the progress of the novel instead of providing it with the structure that the book requires. The reader often wonders when characters, presented in detail early in the novel, will return in significant roles. Many of these characters reappear only briefly in largely inadequate attempts to end their presence in the story. Thus, the reader is left hanging in anticipation of a more satisfying conclusion...
...walls was actually a black curtain," Tripoli said. "They could disappear in and out of the curtain and reappear in front of the people again...
...there was some confusion as to who deserved the credit for the crackdown was the sort of thing that eventually led the mayor to get rid of the chief of police as well.) Following the crackdown, it was widely assumed that the squeegee guys, after a decent interval, would reappear. That hasn't happened. New Yorkers, grateful but intractably suspicious, wonder where the squeegee guys...
...significant difference between the 1946-47 Official Register and the current editions is the absence of bracketed courses--classes planned for the following year. These were not to reappear until the Faculty voted to terminate the campus state-of-emergency provisions in place during the war effort...