Word: expositioneers
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These happenings make no literary sense. They belong in a fashionably satiric exposition of meaninglessness, or a novel of foul disillusion of the kind written so joyously by college boys. Novelist Frame, a New Zealander who has written excellent novels (Owls Do Cry, Faces in the Water) in the past...
In Third Day, Peppard learns from a medic that his "memory is on vacation." But under befuddled Director Jack Smight, none of Peppard's intimates react like normal human beings to the news that he cannot recall his name and address. A dithery old aunt (Mona Washbourne) starts spouting...
Ever since amateur photographers began to turn their backs on the Brownie, U.S. and foreign camera makers have concentrated on ever more gadgetry. But all too often the array of index numbers, knobs, dials and levers simply befuddled the Sunday photographer, and that telephoto shot of Versailles developed into a...
Somebody could write a fabulous play about Benedict Arnold. James A. Culpepper hasn't. Treason at West Point never gets beyond exposition and tactics. The characters rarely come alive; some of them never even come into focus. The cast does a fine job with what they have, but the show...
The uncalled-for flippancy of the review made it unclear that I was criticizing the movie's exposition rather than its appeal.