Word: melodrama
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...been fed on too constant a diet of superlatives and excitements. . . . From public slogans and party platforms, shrill editorials and spiced-up news, to the insistent din and pretense of advertising, the reader . . . comes to believe that the careers of newsmen depend on the illicit transformation of narrative into melodrama. . . . He imagines propaganda both where it is and where...
...hard, neat murder melodrama, with Edmond O'Brien, Vincent Price and Ella Raines (TIME, June...
With his fierce handlebar mustache, his broad-brimmed hat and black cape, Alfredo Palacios, the "grand old man" of Argentina's Socialist Party, resembles a character out of an 1890 melodrama. Like those 1890 heroes, he emphasizes honor. And in a long political life filled with battles for university reform, rights for women, legalized divorce, many are the duels he has fought to defend...
...hard, neat murder melodrama, with Edmond O'Brien, Vincent Price and Ella Raines (TIME, June...
...hard, neat murder melodrama, with Edmond O'Brien, Vincent Price and Ella Raines (TIME, June...