Word: expositioneers
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The movie is a procession of perfect moments. Its dialogue is an exquisite fusion of the hard-boiled and a shameless, high-cholesterol sentimentality. The lines inspire a laughing, capitulating kind of affection. One cherishes them: What waters? We're in the desert . . . I was misinformed . . . Was that cannonfire...
Sir Richard Attenborough's film (which runs over three hours) is itself the product of an unflagging will; it took him more than 20 years to finance and mount it (cost: about $22 million). In the circumstances it would be a pleasure to report that his directorial skill matched...
In B movies or bad movies, the guilty pleasure comes from exposure to the longueurs of exposition, inane dialogue, actors lumbering across the screen to their designated mark. Context is all. To use only snippets from these movies, as It Came from Hollywood does, is to deprive them of their...
Career Insights is a new publication devoted to improving the quality of this sort of interchange. Its editors have solicited advice from dozens of successful men and women and printed it up, with lots of recruiting advertisements, in a glossy 100-page magazine (which Harvard's placement office distributed at...
SIXTH: This diplomatic effort and indeed our whole course of action were greatly reinforced by the fact that our position was squarely based on irrefutable evidence that the Soviet government was doing exactly what it had repeatedly denied that it would do. The support of our allies and the readiness...