Word: melodrama
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...Paul Jackel as Jake and Bob. And when the covering starts to wear thin, there's also considerable potential for pathos. Ableman doesn't have enough control over his material to bring it off, though, and some clumsy inconsistencies and bad writing keep the play at the level of melodrama...
...black hats. Davies's failure to develop Mr. Black's character seemed almost intentional. Mr. Black's distaste for emotion and his calculated and scheming manner made him the perfect model for his vision of a society composed of artificial men. Finally, Davies made sure that Preservation lacked neither melodrama, as in the bit about Flash's dream of his soul speaking to him like the ghost of Christmas past, or comedy, as when a pair of floozies rolled out an enlarged television screen in order to satisfy Flash's desire to appear on television...
Director Ronald Neame (Tunes of Glory, The Poseidon Adventure) has his Nazis parading about like villains in old World War II propaganda melodrama, with delicatessen accents and eyes like hooked fish. Anyone could blow the whistle on Nazis like this. ∎Jay Cocks
...Connor's three-night burst of invective, which must be a bizarre first for television news, was the high point of an incestuous melodrama starring the crusty silver-maned commentator, Illinois politicians, station and network executives, the FCC and a couple of public-spirited wives...
...author. McHale has clearly shown that he can be a dazzling extemporizer, but he badly needs familiar roots. The very restlessness demonstrated in Alinsky's Diamond may contribute to something enduring in the future. For now, though, McHale's imagination can do without this kind of exotic melodrama. > Martha Duffy