Word: expositioneers
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It turns out to be neither-just a misquote which, Truffaut states politely, "will no longer appear." Every Man for Himself and God Against All does recall Truffaut in the same way that a color-by-the-numbers painting recalls Cézanne. Based on the history of a young...
In a second kind of reaction against slice-of-life dramaturgy and realistic settings, Wilder dispensed almost entirely with scenery and props. "In a 1941 exposition of his theory of drama, he said a play should be aimed at the group mind and be based on pretense. Later he wrote...
A power struggle is brewing between the Oriental warlords, and the question on everyone's lips is "Will the guileful Toranaga try to become Shogun [military dictator]?" Does sukiyaki need soy sauce? Of course Blackthorne signs on as Toranaga's henchman, while still more rivalries congeal the already...
BUT THIS WORLD, reconstructed by an outsider, somehow just doesn't ring true. In the hands of the other lady, Sanditon inevitably becomes something different, more a romance than a novel, more a fairy tale than a quietly satirical exposition of the familiar and the real. "Readers will find here...
AS THE ENERVATED journalist who takes the identity of a dead gunrunner, Nicholson at first seems all wrong. The most verbally charming of all American actors, he seems in a stasis. Using a monotone reminiscent of a robot's, he flaccidly interviews the only figures he can understand or even...