Word: melodrama
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...audience for this melodrama sits Harvard, which is the sixth-largest stockholder in KP&L, with 1.2 per cent of the outstanding shares. As in other cases, Harvard apparently has found the show worthy of neither applause nor jeers--nor, for that matter, of jumping up on the stage and attempting to influence the action...
WHILE IN THE past claims that the butler did it have sufficed to resolve the crimes of stage melodrama, the attempt to translate that principle into the arena of state politics is laughable. Justifiably or not, most Americans insist on regarding their government with somewhat more concern than they accord comic-opera principalities, and the newest Watergate bombshell--that the president's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, erased 18 minutes of the Watergate tapes--is so ludicrous as to defy belief...
...Manchurian Candidate), his staging of Iceman has the intensity and immediacy that characterized the best early TV drama. He also catches, rather better than Sidney Lumet did in his 1960 TV production for Play of the Week, the play's roiling richness, the tidal flow from realistic melodrama into tragedy...
Polanski has always fancied himself something of an absurdist, although his best films-such as Knife in the Water, Repulsion and Cul de Sac-have been more notable for good, slightly kinky melodrama. What? has more of the trappings of absurdist comedy. The girl, although apparently free to leave, remains a prisoner; nothing is explained, no one acts out of any clear motivation...
Monsieur Verdoux is Chaplin's last great film. With Limelight (1952), he descended into stiff, nostalgic melodrama. But in Verdoux Chaplin is still in his prime, questioning life in a way outside the scope of his earlier masterpieces, redirecting the passionate feelings which ennobled The Gold Rush, Modern Times, and City Lights...