Word: melodrama
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Extremities by William Mastrosimone. This is an explosive melodrama about a would-be rape and the woman's stark revenge. Alone in a New Jersey farmhouse, Marjorie (Ellen Barber) is accosted by an intruder, Raul (Danton Stone). At first, the jaunty stranger claims to be looking for a man who owes him money. But after some verbal sparring, he wrenches her to the floor by her hair and clamps a pillow to her face. Using the threat of suffocation, Raul systematically degrades Marjorie: "Touch my hair. My mouth. My neck . . . Now touch me down there and say you wanna...
...dropped into oblivion with hardly a sound. There is simply nothing to do with them. The circle of magazines with significant readership trafficking in short fiction remains plodding and exclusive, and, young short story writers are left to show their work to their girlfriends and to languish with the melodrama of art. Worse, publishers droop when a collection of short stories claws its way onto their desks, especially if it's produced by an unestablished writer. What young writer--besides Jayne Anne Phillips. Ann Beattie and Barry Hannah?--has been awarded a whole volume of short stories: and if young...
This frankly humorous melodrama about a terminally unlucky Klondike gold rusher has one foot in the music hall, the other in the concert hall. It was booed almost as lustily as it was applauded...
...struggle, and a question of where to put the blame in a blizzard of passion. It happens every day on television, in films, even in real life. But the trial of Jean Harris, 57, accused of murdering Scarsdale Diet Doctor Herman Tarnower, 69, assumed the proportions of a national melodrama. During the three-month trial, as her precious privacy and guarded respectability were stripped away, the pitiably proud former headmistress of Virginia's Madeira School for girls became the centerpiece of a passionate drama-the old battle of the sexes, fraught with newer, feminist tonalities...
...indulgences of a good many critics, writes masterly first acts. He has the Saroyan sense to devise a solid foundation on which his eccentrics and lowlifes dance to their own ricochet rhythms. But when it comes to complicating and resolving a plot, Tesich falls back on the conventions of melodrama. Around the soft center of Daryll and Tony's affair, he has woven a crazy quilt of stereotypes-the cold-eyed killer, the silent accomplice, the wealthy parents, the deranged Vietvet. At the climax-a reprise of Equus-resourceful Daryll does what every dumb thriller hero or heroine must...