Word: melodrama
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Chesterton came to regard life as a moral melodrama. In it he appropriated the role of God's Fool. Sometimes his undertone was jovial: "And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine/ 'I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.' " When he spoke disdainfully about preferring "the Jew who is revolutionary to the Jew who is a plutocrat," the result was not so felicitous. Dale never averts her eye from these occasions, but she manages to find a rationale for every...
...series, like the sitcom Cheers and the hospital drama St. Elsewhere. With these shows NBC has asserted its image as the "quality network," though the one new NBC show to perform reasonably well against tough competition - Knight Rider, in the suicide slot opposite Dallas - is just another burning-rubber melodrama, a CHIPS of Hazzard...
...Elsewhere, M*A*S*H, General Hospital: need one list all the books, movies and TV shows that turn medicine into melodrama? Yet this Hospital is different. The Hidden Lives of a Medical Center Staff skillfully assembles interviews with 28 men and women at Memorial Medical Center, the fictitious name used to disguise a major teaching hospital in the San Francisco area. Michael Medved (What Really Happened to the Class of '65) has induced Memorial's physicians, nurses, technicians and even the janitor to unload about their jobs, themselves and each other. He has given them pseudonyms...
Extremities. William Mastrosimone's menacing melodrama about rape brought a low-voltage year to a high-voltage end (see above...
...melodrama in Frances Farmer's life was real; her tragedy was that she never got to play it onscreen. From the moment she hit Hollywood in 1935, barely 22 and with a natural blond beauty, Farmer determined to play by her own rules. She would adorn no mogul's casting couch, coddle no gossip columnist. She deserted Hollywood after her first hit movie (Come and Get It, 1936) to join the Group Theater in New York City as the star of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy. Life struck back at Frances with gaudy vengefulness. Odets and his group...