Somehow, this plot description conforms to the experience of watching the film: for about the first half, the exposition is explicit and stepwise, and the director, Robert Schwentke, can't do much with it.
The $50 pieces were sold for $100 and the price included an example of the exposition half-dollar, dollar and $2.50 coins.
To that end, the Lady Managers sought a coin to sell in competition with the commemorative half dollar at the Exposition, which Congress had approved in 1892.
Although the U.S. did not enter the lists in a big way until a little over a year ago, it has already competed with the Communists at expositions in half a dozen Asian cities, including Tokyo, Jakarta, Karachi, and New Delhi.
Much of that half is devoted to background exposition of J. R. R. Tolkien's elaborate mythology, and the music erupted in fits and starts.
Its premise — a city girl is sent to the South to learn about her roots from her grandmother — is thin, and, although the play is a mere ninety minutes, the attenuated exposition makes it half an hour too long.
Almost all of the first episode and half of the second is exposition, and Lynch, who wrote them with Mark Frost (as he did the first two seasons), doesn't do much to disguise, adorn, or enliven it.
Its premise a city girl is sent to the South to learn about her roots from her grandmother is thin, and, although the play is a mere ninety minutes, the attenuated exposition makes it half an hour too long.
More than half of it is just exposition – Savile being interviewed about his life by an arse-licking This Is Your Life-style host, facts courtesy of Wikipedia and biographies.
Two-thirds of "Paradox" is exposition, the troop half-explaining to one another the life-or-death science behind their reality while traversing the narrow hallways and blinking lights that every big-screen spaceship knows all too well.
