Word: melodrama
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...outfield grass, where the glare of the lights confronted the darkness beyond the leaning fence, out of range of catcalls muffled by the steel and concrete grandstand, 22 faceless figures played out the last act of a melodrama which had long since climaxed and was now crawling along to a predictable finale. This was a North American Soccer League (NASL) professional soccer game between the Boston Minutemen and the Miami Toros, two last-place clubs. Although 200 spectators looked on, the press had shown mercy and stayed away...
...Atlanta, Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans and Jonesboro, she studies the big stories of the day, the proceedings of the state senate in Atlanta, and even advertisements for patent medicines hawked during the yellow fever epidemic of the period-a plague that will undoubtedly provide some of the melodrama for GWTW II. Plotting possible ways for Scarlett and Rhett "to get richer and richer," she leafs through the financial pages to see what was happening on the cotton and sugar exchanges...
...Sabatini (The Black Swan, Captain Blood Returns, Mistress Wilding). Three examples of super-Sabatini (The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, Bellarion) are to follow. Quickly, one hopes. At his worst Sabatini is a hypnotic yarn spinner. At his best he is a semiserious novelist who, like Dumas père, uses melodrama as a billboard to lure the casual pleasure seeker into a performance more moving and intelligent than he expects...
...introspective incident that became a full-blown diplomatic melodrama began quietly enough on May 17, when the Trudeau government received a blunt note from a capital that was not even represented at the Games: Peking. The mainland Chinese, who had stalked out of the International Olympic Committee in 1958 over the issue of Taiwan's representation, warned the Canadians that allowing the Taiwanese to attend the Olympics under their chosen name, the Republic of China, would violate the terms of Canada's recognition of Peking. (In 1970, Canada recognized the People's Republic, whereupon Taiwan severed ties...
...Drunkard. Musical melodrama at the Cabaret Down Under, Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton St. in Boston. Performances Tuesday through Thursday at 8:15 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 7:30 and 10 p.m., Sunday at 8:15 p.m. Tickets...