Word: melodrama
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...guard dogs to attack a customer in a demonstration of restaurant security for a visiting McDonald's executive. In fact, it was Foran's theatrics which provided most of the drama in the early stages of the trial. While examining one of Dayan's French store managers, Foran displayed melodrama that even Perry Mason would have shunned. He turned away from the witness and walked slowly towards the councilor's desk. Wheeling around suddenly, he whipped off his Kennedyesque half-glasses and shouted, "Is that the basement where you beat up one of your employees?" Since the restaurant in question...
...rifle, a shot is fired-and bright red flame spits out of the barrel. The sky is suddenly soiled pink with brooding clouds. Lightning flashes, and it is as unnaturally red as the gun blast. The forces of nature are gathering to announce the beginning of a thundering melodrama-one in which the technique provides the action...
...Sissy Spacek), a divorced woman with two sons, works in an isolated house as the town's switchboard operator. She meets a fresh-faced sailor (handsomely played by Eric Roberts); there is a tender affair, another man (Sam Shepard), a pair of resentful layabouts, an abrupt slash of melodrama. Except for the denouement, Raggedy Man proceeds with the even pace of a journey over the Texas plains as seen through a child's wide eyes...
...Dunaway's makeup artist, Lee C. Harman, gets just right. It was Crawford, after all, who had the career problems, the man problems, the drinking problem and, finally, the aging problem. That she sometimes lost her temper at home is hardly the stuff of tragedy, or even good melodrama. Yes, she occasionally raised her hand to her daughter. But thousands of children suffer far more terrible abuse every day-and don't have backyard swimming pools to soothe their feelings. Or get to write vindictive autobiographies that become bestsellers because Mommie Dearest was also Mommie Famous...
...each show, plot strands and predicaments are left hanging to be tied up next week or never. Hand-held cameras on dingily lighted sets catch life on the run; overlapping conversations lend Hill Street the texture of a Robert Altman locker room. The tone can explode from mellow to melodrama within a single sequence. This is an urban M*A*S*H, a ferociously intelligent Dallas-and very much its own show...