Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life. |
She was a very acute observer. |
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. |
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. |
The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera. |
The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera. |
There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery. |
They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress. |
They were real pioneers, |