"We are functioning in two time frames," says Leslie Voltaire, Haiti's envoy to the un.
It's a complicated piece, played in two time frames (1809 and the present) by two sets of characters.
"Wonderstruck," based on a novel by Brian Selznick, intercuts two stories set in two time frames and centered around two different characters whose lives appear unusually cognate.
Casting the narrative in two time frames allows Harvey to show us both the Resnick that was (an intelligence officer, reluctantly sending undercover agents to spy on the desperate miners) and the Resnick that is (an older and wiser man with even more regrets).
Also in the fray is How to be Both, a historical novel set in two time frames from Ali Smith, and next month Irish writer Tóibín's Nora Webster is published, a book which works as a kind of spinoff from his critical hit Brooklyn.
By working in two time frames and alternating the narrative voice, McCrumb threads both stories into a single pattern, a dense and lovely but very dark design that illustrates the social hypocrisy of the legal system as much as the harshness of mountain justice -- then and now.
Set in two time frames, it opened with the story of a bored graduate who runs away from a Devon backwater to become a groundbreaking journalist, single mother, and free spirit in the heart of Soho's post-World War II art scene.
Like many B westerns, the Mesquiteers films take place in two time frames at once: in the countryside, it appears to be about 1880, but as the plotlines approach the city, things seem more and more like the America of Franklin D. Roosevelt, complete with cars, radios, airplanes and a full New Deal complement of greedy businessmen and crooked bankers to provide villainy.
This partition in two time frames is also confirmed by the network analysis.
Bad Land takes place in two time frames, the "present day" and 250 years before "present day".
Blood samples to assess biomarkers were taken and neuropsychological evaluations carried out seasonally; in three time frames for the occupationally exposed group (before, during and after fumigation period); in two time frames for internal control group (before and during fumigation), and only once for the external controls.
