The exposition that resulted is the oldest here but remains the most powerful.
There are many moments of exposition that might be tedious in another context.
On display through Dec. 26, "Transition" coincides with Contemporary Istanbul, an international art exposition that runs through Sunday.
The clunky transitions and excess exposition that are the hallmark of page-to-stage translations are mercifully absent.
Strangely, the movie plays like an extended, dully methodical exposition that serves solely to reach its shattering climax.
And Mr. Harrison does not figure out another way to integrate his exposition that works as well as the opening speech.
In 1907 Virginia, with federal backing, staged a huge but poorly-attended exposition that presented Jamestown as a white Christian beachhead in a land of godless red savages.
There are waves of brilliantly orchestrated anxiety and confusion but also long stretches of drab, hackneyed exposition that flatten the atmosphere.
This year, while the fiesta was underway in San Antonio, Houston was hosting a food exposition that attracted 45 Mexican companies.
But for a place billing itself as a museum, it is light on the kind of exposition that would help visitors learn the fascinating history of American pizza.
It is an amazing feat of lucid, economical exposition that tells the story of our planet from its very beginnings up to the first world war.
