Word: melodrama
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...artist's voice] could draw a word out into a long cello note or quaver like the lead fiddle in the pit of a Victorian melodrama...
...Casablanca triangle: an idealist, his conflicted wife and the adventurer who can save a life by breaking a heart. Proof of Life isn't quite at that level of romantic melodrama, but its wit, vigor and rue make it a superior entertainment--and a lot more illuminating than the real-life romance it sparked...
...disgusted by the continued assault on Nader as a person. It is not surprising that the critics have to stoop to attacking his character, because if they bothered to consider the actual content of his message, they would have nothing to say. Once this electoral melodrama has run its course, we will see that Nader was right. No matter who takes office, it will be business as usual. JEREMY RAYMONDJACK Lowell, Mass...
...Sammo Hung (Magnificent Butcher), Jet Li (The Tai Chi Master) and Michelle Yeoh (Wing Chun, with its amazing battle over a plate of tofu). In period epics and modern cop dramas, his heroes and villains have used chopsticks, pigtails, calligraphy brushes, umbrellas and robe sleeves as impromptu weapons. His melodrama is never mellow: a little girl is bundled in dynamite (The Red-Wolf); a heroine battles a predator on the top of, on the side of and nearly under a speeding ambulance (In the Line of Duty 4); and at the end of a Yuen movie, nearly anyone is likely...
...before we continue with our made-for-TV melodrama, it may behoove us to take a step back, and use the time during which we are waiting for election results to be finally determined to take a close hard look at how we have conducted ourselves in the United States in the last few days, with our claims of "foul play" and "election mismanagement." Before we continue to chastise one another for being "obstructive of the will of the people," and for claiming that each party has "made a mockery of our fair election laws," we should pray for those...