Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...portentous slo-mo for the shoot-outs, giddy fast-mo for comedy scenes. The camera literally runs circles around the lovers. When Romeo sees Juliet, his eye explodes in fireworks. The sound track pulses with rap and rock and sound effects that you'd expect in a Hong Kong melodrama; they shoot forth thunder. The style is studiously kicky, less RSC than...
...solemnity, EZ Streets somehow manages to avoid melodrama. Indeed, Haggis brings a mordant wit to his new show. He has conceived head gangster Jimmy Murtha (Joe Pantoliano) as the kind of guy who mercilessly blows people up, then goes to confession and can't quite deliver the goods. "I know what you do. God knows what you do," the priest chastises. "You're trying to tell me that the only sin you have to confess is that you took the Lord's name in vain?" Murtha's response: "I'm giving you what I can." Then he negotiates his penance...
...audience was not already verklempt by the romantic melodrama of Schubert's love songs, the dismal puddles of wasser waiting for them outside were sure to cast a dark shadow on their oh-so-sensitive souls...
...upset about these days, and much recent music reflects this moaning pessimism. But the upbeat and perky band Plumtree, made up of four high school girls from Halifax, Nova Scotia, can justly claim to be the heir to the Leroy Anderson throne of popular music. What they lack in melodrama, they make up in pure energy...
...fifth or sixth reel of an ongoing eco-melodrama involving the threatened cutting of ancient California redwoods on the foggy north coast flickered to a close last week, though more perils lurked. There lay the heroine, hog-tied to the tracks; there came the choo-choo; there gloated the villain, twirling his mustache. Logging was to begin in three days. Negotiators for the U.S. Department of the Interior were scripted as heroes at a day-long wrangle at the Washington office of California Senator Dianne Feinstein...