Late last month, the L.A. Metro opened an extension of the sky-blue Expo line (named after Exposition Boulevard, which it runs alongside), which now carries passengers from downtown to Santa Monica and the Pacific.
He's junked pages of exposition, rewritten lines, refocused characters.
"May I introduce myself?" says Dr George Devereux on their first encounter, in one of the film's many exposition-tastic lines.
A few incredibly clunky, exposition-heavy lines of dialogue later, Carrie and Quinn had jumped to the same conclusion that many readers have: Galvez the Muslim must be the mole we forgot we were looking for!
In "Leviathan on the Right," Michael D. Tanner offers the fullest exposition of this line of reasoning to date.
(He would later write, in praise of Irving Kristol, that "one learns more from a well-written defense of a weak position... than from a muddled exposition of a line one agrees with").
It includes the so-called Subway to the Sea, Phase 2 of the Exposition light-rail line and the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor.
During their interviews conducted in English, of course they gave standard expositions of the line, barely engaging with Arab accusations.
Meanwhile the reader must negotiate exposition along the lines of "Aaron Graham is the magistrate of Bow Street in the fashionable West End of town, and as such has some right to consider himself the lead magistrate in London and Westminster, though no such seniority exists in official point of fact and in any case Graham would never be graceless enough to dwell on it".
And, although every other line is exposition or bombast, you don't go to Lee Daniels (who created the show, with Danny Strong, and who directed "Precious" and "The Butler") for subtlety.
The Vegas, having pared their script to the bone — there are no speeches and not a line of exposition — hew to the less is more school of art-film realism.
