Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fable, and as continuations of an initially untold saga, they required some elucidation. But what's the need for back-story text in a tale that is just beginning? Can it be that Lucas was unable to dramatize these events, so he put them in the crawl? That would explain the gobs of dry exposition, devoted to blustering, filibustering debates on taxation and elections. It's all very edifying. Like...school...
...explain this to my friends and hear the standard reaction: "Twenty pages? And you've already written 15? I don't want to talk to you. I have 60 pages to write in the next five days...
...Fans are essentially interested in Lucas' imaginary universe, but because the magic of that universe depends on the richness of Lucas' imagination, Lucas has to do more than just make up more "stuff." Unfortunately, the point of a prequel is to explain a story already told; it relies on the inertia of another story. It is simply more "stuff." It does not truly enlarge the Star Wars universe...
...expansion in U.S. history; a 200 percent rise in the stock market; record lows in both unemployment and inflation; and a balanced budget. And don't forget about keeping the worst global economic crisis since the '30s in check and away from U.S. shores. Asked a while back to explain the miracle, the meticulous Rubin put it this way: "It's some things we've done, some things other people have done, what the private sector has done. It's good fortune. It's all this coming together... Economic historians 25 or 30 years from now will identify factors...
...almost two o'clock in the morning, and Brown, who shaved off all his hair and his beard last week because he needed a "fresh start," is stretched out on the carpet in his family's living room, trying to explain the inexplicable: What made Klebold latch on to Harris? "Eric was an incredible individualist," he begins slowly. "Charismatic, an eloquent speaker, well read, the kind of guy who could bulls___ for hours about anything and be witty and brilliant." There was no sign of this erudition on Harris' website, but maybe he was role playing in those days...