Word: expositioneers
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The Summer Repertory took on considerable risks when it decided to give Happy Days a go; despite some fine comic and theatrical moments, the risks just didn't play off. Beckett's play, intellectually difficult as well as theatrically so, must work as a philosophical exposition on the human spirit...
There is more exposition than dramatization of an exceedingly complicated plot thereafter. Yet if Sharif could have managed a modicum of magnetism and if Andrews had finally furled that old umbrella of hers, The Tamarind Seed might have been a moving exploration of the nasty intersection where politics and personal...
The economic reforms are even extending to Italy's bloated bureaucracy. Deputies last week debated legislation to eliminate many useless, semi-autonomous state agencies. No one knows how many there are. "They are like the stars in the night sky," says Liberal Deputy Aldo Bozzi, whose own estimate is...
With each successive story, Novelist Frederick Forsyth (Day of the Jackal, Odessa File) grows richer and more book clubbable. He also finds it harder and harder to get his action to explode without leading up to it with an interminable train of exposition-in this case short lectures on every...
Unfortunately, the movie's good intentions are undone by a script that gets bogged down in a needlessly overcomplex plot. What is good in the film is constantly lost in a tedious exposition. It is as if the movie's makers- including Lancaster, who functions as co-director...