Word: expositioneers
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Most travelers eat airline food only because at 30,000 ft. they have few alternatives. But Japan Air Lines thinks its in-flight cuisine is so good that it can draw diners at ground level. In a novel promotion, JAL has opened its own restaurant, complete with a genuine cabin...
The play, a humorous and existential exposition on two minor characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet, is a spurious and spontaneous lampoon of plays, playwrights and plots.
There are, after all, certain things we expect upon entering a theater: characters, setting, plot, movement of this plot from exposition to climax to denouement. We cling to our conventions, even if we do not mean to, even if we do not want to. Convention is almost all we ever...
There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting" words--those which by their very utterance inflict injury...
In three years, 20,000 buildings went up, all bigger and stronger than the 28,000 that had burned. San Francisco's assessed evaluation was half again as much as it had been. In 1915 the city sponsored the spectacular Panama-Pacific International Exposition. In only nine years, San Francisco...