Word: melodrama
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...Barry was able to garner bouquets of sympathy as he trotted off for physical and spiritual renewal necessitated, he said, by working so hard for the city. Whatever happened to taking a vacation, quietly, without invoking a 12-step program? For the moment, everyone is taken up by the melodrama of whether the mayor may be slipping back into drugs and alcohol--all because of the pressure. Many have forgotten that the pressure has been brought on by the mayor himself. It was Barry who did much to get the city into the fix it's in. His departure announcement...
...that she is one of the rare modern avatars of the grand old radiance. Acting is easy, glamour is hard. But Stone wants more than to make sin chic. To increase her stature, she must diminish her luster. And so she has chosen the sort of caged-woman melodrama--but with a message--that, when Susan Hayward tried it in the 1958 I Want to Live!, won her an Oscar...
...Close Shave, which would make a fine companion piece to Babe, is a dazzly melodrama about criminal woolgathering and an adorable lamb named Sean (as in shorn). Its blithe originality suggests that Park could make terrific Wallace-and-Gromit films forever. But he already has a feature-length project on a new subject. Park is right to think big. In a year or two, he could be holding an Oscar for best picture...
...From weepers (1954's Magnificent Obsession) to musicals (Thoroughly Modern Millie in 1967) to comedies (a brace of Doris Day films) to dramas (1970's Airport), the typical Hunter product offered a high-calorie menu of top-priced Hollywood stars, expensive sets and sumptuous costuming that gave tragedy and melodrama a gloss of glamour...
...many other students, the process of finding out their future house was a highly anticipated event, colored with melodrama and the wails and screams to match...