Word: expositioneers
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Ever since the Japanese introduced the kudzu vine to America at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, the broad-leafed creeper has been a much maligned nuisance. Like some omnivorous green space monster, the irrepressible plant has spread across the Southeast, smothering everything from telephone poles to abandoned cars.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., an American literature professor at Duke University, is well-known for a series of editorial pieces he wrote concerning the lyrics of 2 Live Crew, a rap band recently acquitted of obscenty charges in Florida. Their album, "As Nasty as They Wanna Be" tells of the...
The second and third movements were more in keeping with the overall mood of the composition. The musicians began to adapt to the balance problem, and their tempos became more appropriate. At one point during the second movement, Pressler created an exquisite moment by varying the timbre of a repeated...
Most Scorsese movies are all exposition. The characters don't grow or learn, they just get found out. Same, in spades, here. So it is Scorsese's triumph that GoodFellas offers the fastest, sharpest 2 1/2-hr. ride in recent film history. He has said he wanted his picture to have...
There is the calorific opening scene: "He felt like a teenager -- eager to plunge into her, unable to hold back." The cumbrous exposition: "He always imagined that people were making fun of him behind his back, which was sometimes true." The colliding metaphors: "He was in good hands. He had...