Word: melodrama
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Fetishist. McMahon's novel suffers from problems of technique and plotting. Timmy reads minds and recounts the distant intimate activities of others to an extent that damages credibility. Melodrama intervenes at too strategic moments: a convenient suicide wraps up one subplot, a scientist loses his wallet and laundry with cosmic consequences, an offstage Russian turns out to be a sex fetishist rather than...
WEDNESDAY night's riot and the tremendous police reaction were the inevitable next steps in the Harvard Square drama. This summer it has been a mixed form; bits of farce, moments of tragedy, but more than anything, a jaded recurring melodrama...
Otto Preminger has always had a certain flair for irrelevant melodrama (Bunny Lake Is Missing, Hurry Sundown), but never in his mercurial career has he made anything quite as tacky as Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon. Adapted from an oddly beguiling novel by Marjorie Kellogg (who could be justifiably outraged if she had not written the deadly screenplay herself), Junie Moon is at base an egregious attempt to exploit both sentimental and kinky appetites...
Shaw followed up his "melodrama" with "a history," Caesar and Cleopatra, and "an adventure," Captain Brassbound's Conversion -and put them all together under the heading "Three Plays for Puritans." The second work is far and away the finest, and the American Shakespeare Festival chose it as its first departure from Shakespeare...
Dick himself comes across with all the brio one could ask for, thanks to David Selby. He is properly imprudent, a maelstrom of activity; and he is young and indecently handsome, as befits the romantic hero of a melodrama. Shaw has carefully built up suspense for Dick's first entrance, Heis talked about at some length; and the Dudgeon family, all dressed in black mourning outfits, are waiting for the conventional reading-of-the-will episode. Dick finally bounds in irreverently, wearing light blue and brown-the embodiment of defiance...