Word: melodrama
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...talks roused little interest at the time, and were soon overshadowed by the melodrama of Edward's abdication in order to marry "the woman I love''-the twice-divorced American socialite, Wallis Warfield Simpson. Since then, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, growing paler and frailer with the passage of years, have drifted from Portugal to the West Indies, from Manhattan to Paris. Their pastimes have been the trifling ones of showing up at balls, growing roses...
...made all the more precious because the supply of old masters available is constantly dwindling. The Yale University Art Gallery has added Rubens' turbulent Hero and Leander, painted around 1606, when the artist was under 30. It is a painting of tragic fury with the kind of magnificent melodrama that was to appeal to the 16th century romantics...
...such a scene would hardly be dared by novelists, it was well within Khrushchev's flair for macabre melodrama. In this baleful light, it became completely clear to Kennedy that the U.S. had no course but to squash the Soviet missile buildup. But how? In his long, soul-trying talks with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, State Secretary Dean Rusk, the CIA's McCone and other top civilian and military officials, the plan was arduously worked out. Direct invasion of Cuba was discarded-for the time being. So was a surprise bombing attack on the missile sites. Both methods...
...characters talk to each other in indirect but elemental metaphors, and one character, Death as a beggar-woman, actually exists as such a metaphor. Even the Moon comes on to make a speech. The simple trouble is that like nearly all rural tragedy Blood Wedding is the sort of melodrama into which actors are reluctant to empty their energies, and that therefore strikes audiences as faintly embarrassing vulgarity...
...melodrama season started there this week with a veritable product of the late nineteenth century, Millard Grosby's She Was Only a Farmer's Daughter...