flashback
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- n a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
- n an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
- Yet the show has stayed just this side of ridiculous, through grounded performances and a flashback device that keeps it all from getting too claustrophobic--and helps newcomers .
- In Pedro Almodvars most recent film, the noir thriller Bad Education, a flashback to early-60s Spain shows a budding romance between two young Catholic schoolboys, Enrique .
- But the memory resurfaced like a violent flashback on Sept.