After the Holocaust prologue, the film warps to what a title card refers to as the "not too distant future".
The dust jacket of "White Teeth" boasts a blurb (an "astonishingly assured debut") from none other than Rushdie himself, and reviews in the British press were quick to identify Smith's rollicking verbal pyrotechnics as a not too distant relative of Rushdie's own.
The warnings came from both inside the White House — an official in the Office of Management and Budget wrote that the visit could be "embarrassing in the not too distant future" — as well as from private investors, including one Democratic campaign contributor who wrote to the White House the day before the president's May 2010 visit to Solyndra to urge officials to reconsider the trip.
These works are masterpieces, exciting works of art, as are many other 20th-century works; they are as vital and as rewarding as the masterworks of the distant and not too distant past.
Not in the next few months, but I thinking about a book that involves the Court, perhaps not as centrally as the "The Nine," in the not too distant future.
And he added: "I sincerely hope that working with Preston North End's existing staff and with the continued support of its fan base, I can play a part in ensuring that we return to the Championship as a minimum in the not too distant future".
Apple's China product launches have become increasingly important as it looks toward that country becoming its most important market in the "not too distant future," as Cook told Chinese news site Sina during his visit to the country last week.
In the not too distant future, as DNA-based variations in drug responses are identified, electronic records will enable doctors to choose the most effective medication and dose for each patient.
When the history of how same-sex marriage became the law of the land is eventually written, as it will be in the not too distant future, there will be many turning points to mark.
"These still rather moderate inflationary and wage pressures will ease in the not too distant future as the result of a slowing economy," said Donald J. Fine, chief market analyst at Chase Fleming Asset Management.
