Word: melodrama
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California Attorney General John Van de Kamp could be forgiven his 20 seconds of melodrama. His state was still reeling from the massacre wrought when a crazed man murdered five children in a Stockton schoolyard, wounded 29 others and a teacher, and then killed himself with a pistol...
...rights movement, of Lyndon Johnson's generous social vision, of the liberals' hope to keep government on its trajectory), it prepared the way for other beginnings: the women's movement, the environmental movement, the complex reverberant life that the '60s would have in the American mind long after the melodrama was over and those previously on fire went to tend their gardens...
...white arm of racism strikes back. May: Birmingham public-safety commissioner "Bull" Connor turns his dogs and his fire hoses on demonstrators. June: in Jackson, Miss., Medgar Evers is murdered. September: four black children are killed in a Birmingham church bombing. The following summer promised the climax to a melodrama that would be scored to either We Shall Overcome or Mississippi Goddam...
...LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST In an age of post-Christian facetiousness, Martin Scorsese's work daringly attempts to restore passion and melodrama to the Gospel story. Protests notwithstanding, the film is an affirmation of faith in the power of both the Gospel and the movies...
...were central to the case. Even though these names are matters of public record and appeared often in newspapers, McGinniss changes them to, as he says, "preserve privacy." A more probable reason for fictitious identifications is to prevent libel suits. Because the impact of true crime depends on melodrama, the scenes and dialogue are liberally re-created by the author. Some of the dialogue seems too good to be true -- unless it appeared in a George Higgins novel. To readers this may seem like New Journalism, but to publishing-house lawyers it is safe storytelling. Blind Faith belongs...