Word: melodrama
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...General Assembly for the embattled, Taiwan-based Nationalist regime of Mao's old enemy, Chiang Kaishek. But with the special antimagic that the U.N. seems to possess in abundance, the buildup to the climax dissolved into hours of stiff speechifying, interspersed with moments of bizarre and totally unrelated melodrama...
...this bland, canned state of TV, does the audience have any hope at all for fast, fast, fast relief? After 365 pages of documented despair, Brown suddenly goes upbeat, trusting the general viewer to reforest the wasteland. The result is reminiscent of the happy ending tacked to a TV melodrama. It also reflects an abiding belief in the populist tradition. "The freedom of the public," says Brown, "is the time bomb in television." So far, the freedom has meant nothing, but in Television it is both funny and terrifying to watch it tick...
...documents."); the 1950 Senatorial campaign with its "pink sheet" attacks on Helen Gahagan Douglas; the side-splitting Checkers speech in which every cheap rhetorical device which Nixon would later use in his Presidential addresses is foreshadowed; and the whole roster of "crises" around which Nixon himself has shaped the melodrama of his life...
Once he has forced Henry's confrontation with conscience, however. Read is rather at a loss. Are the young revolutionaries worth his or Henry's burgeoning sympathies? Read never quite makes things clear. Clouding his own novelist's dilemmas with heavy melodrama, he kills off Henry with a bullet from the movement. Henry dies as ambivalently as he lived. Read has not so much shaped a resolution as confessed that he dare not imagine one. He seems paralyzed by suppressed hope the way other authors get paralyzed by suppressed despair...
...swept over the Army since. The result is an engrossing film but failed journalism. This week the PBS Special is a revival of the 1965 off-Broadway work Hogan's Goat, which gave the world Faye Dunaway. Faye is back, and, while William Alfred's blank-verse melodrama about turn-of-the-century Irish-American politics may not be a stage classic, it is a rich adornment to the 19-in. screen. THIS WEEK aims to avoid the primarily headline news service of the commercial networks and to concentrate its entire half-hour on one story. The anchor...