Word: melodrama
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...were, which the writer shrewdly plays but never deigns to reel all the way in. The art for this old man, a college professor who did not begin to write until he retired from teaching, was all in the writerly casting of his lines, not in the melodrama of the catch...
...crucial job of a film critic, which is to see movies -- to figure out what's going on -- and report it. Here is his analysis of Sleeping with the Enemy: an "indictment of conventional wedlock as a cruel and unhealthy arrangement." Well, it's not; it is a melodrama about wife abuse -- a social disorder Hollywood didn't invent. Medved, determined to alienate even his core audience of people who think Disney cartoon features are innocuous entertainment, proclaims that The Little Mermaid "effectively encouraged children to disregard the values and opinions of their parents." Well, Disney has been traumatizing kids...
These five happy-go-lucky musicians offered a lighter, happier alternative to the melodrama of Guns N' Roses and unapologetic experimentalism of bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More. On their EP, As Ugly As They Wanna Be, UKJ never got deeper than the tragic teenage problems of parents and parties...
Such personages, however, got lost on the way to the casting of Singles, Cameron Crowe's slick new romance cum comedy cum melodrama...
...advance that surely will start a new service industry, Rosellen Brown's plot can be counted on to grab a mother or father by the ventricles. Lying awake in sweaty sheets at 3 a.m., any parent of any teenager ! sees an immediate future more or less like Brown's melodrama: a 17-year-old New Hampshire boy named Jacob, no sulkier or more hostile than the next kid, suddenly goes septic and gets himself into hideous trouble. The cops, in fact, think he has bludgeoned his pregnant girlfriend to death with a car jack. It becomes clear to his parents...