Word: melodrama
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...Averell or Arthur and hide them," he observed, "than I can on Luci." Still, the gist of the U.S. message, the precise nature of the U.S. proposals, were kept closely guarded. De Gaulle, probably with secret delight, since it so suited his own habitual taste for melodrama, solemnly informed his Cabinet that at Johnson's request he could tell them nothing of his talks with Goldberg. Harriman saw Tito, then Nasser, and thinly tried to justify his two days in Cairo as an effort to get Egypt to look into the welfare of U.S. prisoners of war in North...
That was undoubtedly true-though the fact was of small solace to the steel industry, which once again found itself publicly cast as villain in a U.S. economic melodrama. It began on the last day of 1965, when the Bethlehem Steel Corp. announced that it was raising its prices on structural steel by $5 a ton, to an average $119. Poor "Bessie." No sooner had the word hit the wire-service tickers than Gardner Ackley, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, denounced the increase as inflationary; he later charged that Bethlehem was profiteering from the Viet...
...stirring semi-documentary about the impulsive, unpredictable nature of suicide. Unfortunately, Thread does not follow through on its inspiration-a vivid 1964 LIFE article in which Shana Alexander described the psychological crisis that led one anonymous Seattle housewife to attempt self-destruction. The movie is a routine, sometimes mawkish melodrama, and a sorry misuse of talent...
...Capote had only presented a bare history, colored with reportorial irony, In Cold Blood would be merely suspenseful and provoking non-fiction. But it is a novel, for Capote, with singular grace, hovers between profound irony and melodrama--the irony of collision and the drama of a not inconsiderable sense of fate. The central impact of the amassed documentation derives from the compelling personality of the central figure, Perry Smith, and his belief in fate. By the time we have come to know Perry and his fated family, for whom the "solution" to life has frequently been violent suicide...
Youngest Ever. Long forgotten by all but avid devotees of Victoriana, Dilke and his scandal were recently and rather carelessly reconstructed in a melodrama (The Right Honourable Gentleman) that ran a year and a half in London and is now maintaining a precarious life on Broadway. The tragedy deserves more responsible treatment, and this it has been given by Roy Jenkins, a political historian who is Minister of Aviation in Britain's Labor government. After a study of all available evidence, some of it never before made public, Jenkins concludes that Dilke was framed and finished...