Some people will find the passage of time too much of a skim, and it is certainly disconcerting to realise that a minor character, last glimpsed as a college senior, is now approaching retirement (I never got the hang of Jared, and suddenly he was 60 years old).
You can see the effort and detail that has gone into even the most minor moment (the fleetingly glimpsed stag party in last night's episode, for example, or the leftwing or rightwing news dragon).
What secrets lie in the brief glimpses of minor characters and bits of Marvel universe ephemera?
At times what appears to be a minor eccentricity can afford a glimpse into a large and unsuspected landscape of symptoms.
Disappointingly, Gekko is a minor character who's hardly glimpsed in the first half-hour, and when we do see him, he's been reduced to a rumpled outsider.
The coda shifts to the tonic major, but is still haunted by glimpses of the minor mode.
Though the silent films in "Reel Baseball" (Kino), a two-disk set of features and shorts made from 1899 to 1926, are of minor artistic value, they offer fascinating glimpses of the state of the game — and of the union — in that era.
At Wimbledon this summer, as he caught a glimpse of Gimelstob agonizing through a minor workout, an amused Roddick said, "Can we double the bet?" But Gimelstob is unwavering, if only because of his friendly rivalry with the merciless Roddick.
Here he offered an unusual but compelling journey that went straight from Bach (the D minor English Suite) to late Liszt and concluded, after some musical glimpses of Finland, with the Sonata by Henri Dutilleux.
But she offered a nostalgic glimpse back in her fourth encore, Chopin's Waltz in C sharp minor.
