Word: melodrama
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...Melodrama would be served if Fermina repented immediately and suffered married life at leisure. In fact, her husband is a good man, and she hardly has a thought to spare for Florentino and his blighted life. For his part, Florentino resolves to keep himself spiritually pure for the moment when he will, someday, possess Fermina; in the meantime, he consoles himself with the physical companionship of women in order to learn more about his beloved. He writes down his impressions and amasses "some 25 notebooks, with 622 entries of long-term liaisons, apart from the countless fleeting adventures that...
Movies, of course, have always been the most ludicrous offenders in this regard. They so often turn the stealth and cunning by which most artists survive into confrontational melodrama. How marvelous to find a film that comes at this subject from the right direction -- obliquely, metaphorically -- and in the proper mood of delicate and gallant irony...
...finished the year with, say, $25,500, a respectable profit of more than 50%, a book would have been pointless. Who needs How I Made $9,000 by Incredibly Shrewd Investing? Though Rothchild may not have realized this at the outset, only calamity could produce a level of melodrama salable in bookstores. (He is not a member of the illustrious European banking family, which spells its name Rothschild and usually surmounts calamity...
...victory capped off an afternoon of heart-wrenching melodrama for the Crimson squad...
Though the plot may be trite, the vibrant cast turns this sitcom-like melodrama into an hour's worth of truly enjoyable entertainment. In organizing Project Space 6, Weiner and Hanning wanted to inject some raw and new energy into Harvard theater. They did this by enlisting the talents of students who have had little or no dramatic experience. Providing the actors with a skeletal script, Weiner and Hanning let the performers project themselves into their characters, bringing a ring of authenticity to their roles...