Word: melodrama
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...country and its people, black and white (he is the leader of the Liberal Party in South Africa), Paton does not rank as a major writer. But for his purposes, he may be something even better: a male Harriet Beecher Stowe who avoids both the mawkishness and the melodrama of Uncle Tom's Cabin...
Advise and Consent. A tense melodrama-contrived but exciting-about the rough-and-tumble of Washington politics...
Advise and Consent. Allen Drury's best-selling novel about Washington makes an engrossing political melodrama. While somewhat superficial and oversimplified, at least it treats the theatrically much neglected subject of power without cant...
...Russian films. In fact, the good and bad flow from the same source, for the Russian view of life is a strongly emotional one. These films project a strong feeling of the land and the lives of its inhabitants. But this feeling is often close to sentimentality and melodrama. The soldier sways back and forth for fully a minute with a bullet in his back, while the orchestra rises and swells in the background, before he falls into the river and ends The Colt. All the characters seem to be so easily moved to pity and warmth that...
Advise and Consent. Allen Drury's bestselling novel about Washington makes an engrossing political melodrama. While somewhat superficial and oversimplified, at least it treats the theatrically much-neglected subject of power without cant...