Word: melodrama
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...GRADUATE. Mike Nichols' second screen effort begins as genuine comedy, soon degenerates into spurious melodrama, although Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross do an excellent job as victims of a sophomoric love triangle...
...better writer than Emlyn Williams, the Welsh actor and dramatist (Night Must Fall, The Corn Is Green). Williams enters the lucrative literary creep-stakes, dragging behind him two human monsters and three well-mutilated corpses. He is writing about the "Moors murders," a gruesome three-act melodrama of cold-bloodletting that captivated British headline readers from Nov. 23, 1963, when the first murder occurred, until long after Oct. 7, 1965, when the plodding bobbies of Lancashire made their arrest...
...company agreed last month to buy Hollywood's Television Enterprises Corp., a privately owned maker of low-budget films. Since the divorce plan was divulged, Sunasco shares have gone from a December low of $7.63 on the New York Stock Exchange to $9.38 last week. For sheer corporate melodrama, Rozet's rescue might make a film itself...
...does not quite convince the reader or himself that the profit motive alone was responsible for the routes of guilt that can be traced from the Gold Coast of Africa in 1441 to the riot-ripped cities of America in the summer of 1967. Beyond the simple, gory melodrama of greed, a margin of evil in human affairs still remains visible but unaccounted...
Gestapo Tactics. To Stony Brook officials, who had not been advised that the raid was planned, it looked like something of a grandstand operation. Not only was there a certain amount of melodrama in the dawn crackdown, but nearly a dozen newsmen had been briefed by the cops beforehand and had been given rides to the scene in police cars. Stony Brook Associate Dean Donald M. Bybee called it "a press field day," and a local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union quickly protested the pretrial publicity. Students complained of "Gestapo tactics," pro tested that the ill-timed raid...