Word: expositioneers
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THOSE STALE TOURISTS miss the annual agricultural fair, L'Exposition d'Agriculture, held every August not far beyond the city limits. It's a French-speaking twist on the 4-H county fairs I'm used to seeing in Maryland.
Roughly half of this novel, Robert Stone's fifth, is occupied with putting together the complicated and elaborate house of cards that will spectacularly blow apart during the second half. In less assured hands, such a long swatch of narrative exposition might seem cumbersome, even a little tedious. Not so...
Asked to explain, Clinton launches into a convoluted exposition: "The people who argued that sanctions should be given more time had some good arguments," but he thought and said it would be wrong to vote "to undermine the U.N. resolution" allowing the use of force; he did not trumpet that...
The year 1892 was an annus mirabilis in the U.S. The best symbol of that was Chicago, a city leveled by fire as recently as 1871 but subsequently bristling with the continent's first cluster of skyscrapers. For the 1893 World's Fair that became known as the World's...
As we approach 1992, it promises to be an annus not so mirabilis for America -- a strange thing, since we are reaching the end of that American Century launched on the last major Columbian centenary. During the past hundred years, America has exercised a global authority not even Henry Adams...