Word: melodrama
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...domestic dramas include two adaptations from novels, All the Way Home, which transmits much of the poetry and power of James Agee's A Death in the Family, and Advise and Consent, a brisk and tense political melodrama taken from the Allen Drury bestseller. Also of note: Tennessee Williams' Period of Adjustment, a lively comedy-lecture on marital success that is forced more often than forceful...
...melanoma spread to his back. Thin, exhausted and in pain, Dooley checked into a Hong Kong hospital last November, was fitted with a brace ("my Iron Maiden") that extended from his shoulders to his hips. "I am not going to quit," Dooley insisted, with a typical touch of melodrama. "I will continue to guide and lead my hospitals until my back, my brain, my blood and my bones collapse...
Midway in a middling Broadway season, the best new plays include All the Way Home, a life-affirming adaptation of James Agee's Knoxville chronicle, A Death in the Family; Advise and Consent, a superficial but suspenseful political melodrama based on the Allen Drury bestseller; A Taste of Honey, an episodic but unblinkingly truthful first play about a desperately lonely girl, brilliantly performed by Joan Plowright; and Period of Adjustment, a comedy in which Tennessee Williams turns marital counselor in an unprecedentedly optimistic work that displays more deftness than depth. Among last season's worthiest survivors: Lillian Hellman...
Guarding the Pool. In Cuba Castro continued his tawdry little melodrama of "invasion." He lined the Havana waterfront with Russian tanks, field guns, four-barreled antiaircraft guns and antitank weapons. One band of defenders mounted a newly arrived 12.7-mm. Czech machine gun on the cabanas of the Habana Riviera Hotel, strategically overlooking a bathing beauty near the pool below. Militiamen took up positions inside Havana's San Francisco Roman Catholic Church and two Catholic schools, mined bridges and fanned out around the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo...
Advise and Consent. A superficial but lively and suspenseful political melodrama based on the Allen Drury bestseller...