Rudy Giuliani's decision to drop out wasn't a huge surprise--the New York City mayor is battling prostate cancer and his wife just hired a fancy divorce lawyer--but it was a personal drama of operatic proportions, a thunderclap so loud that mere politics couldn't account for it.
The gesture looked like a suicide attempt, but it was a stratagem: a drama designed to get her sister to take the kids out of the house, so that she could talk to her husband alone.
They range from a retired piano tuner to a UEA drama student, but they all share a love of music and many of them have sung with the choir since its inception.
Traffic volume can be a drama but volume plus control equals crisis.
It's another kind of coming-of-age story, but it's a drama. (W)e just finished so maybe this winter it will be done.
But in a high-drama moment last year at the Democratic National Convention, both Clintons announced their wholehearted support for their party's nominee.
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The Lakers regained the lead shortly thereafter on a 3-pointer by Jodie Meeks, and led 44-40 at the half, but not without a little drama.
In form, the movie is perhaps no more than a conventional triangle drama, but the milieu lends the material a special charm and interest.
Mr. Weiner, age 47, has so often told of his struggles to get "Mad Men" made that he no longer enjoys recounting the story. (The premium cable channels HBO, home to "The Sopranos, " and Showtime passed on the project before it was picked up by AMC, which had never aired a scripted drama series.) But he retains a sense of humor about the process.
The movie stops dithering and settles into a conventional but satisfying romantic drama.
But behind the scenes a dangerous drama is being played out.
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But there is a certain sad drama associated with the prolonged cheapening of cultural movements, moments, and experiences, especially when profits are the only apparent and desired end.
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Assuming that you don't have a horse in this particular race, how does "The Testament of Mary" come across when considered not as an antireligious statement but as a piece of pure drama?
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But the drama unfolded like a Shakespeare tragedy.
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This is a classy, conscientious, well-acted drama, but it's hardly a revelation that law firms get rich defending immoral corporations -- sad to say, that truth is already out there.
It's not quite adulation to the level of making it on to a stamp or into a television drama, but it's certainly recognition.
The prime-time blockbuster on CCTV this year was Yongzheng Dynasty, a 44-part docu-drama on the life of a cruel but reform-minded Qing dynasty emperor.
The probate court documents, reviewed by The Associated Press on Wednesday, shed no light on the circumstances of Khan's death, but they do add a layer of drama to an already baffling case.
But "Doubt, " a provocative drama about the battle between a parish priest and a strong-willed nun who suspects that he is abusing a student at her school, has given him much more than that.
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This generational tension is not easily resolved, but watching history unfold even through a television drama can help spark a richer dialogue.
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Coventry slowly began to exert some pressure as the half wore on, but the real drama was reserved for a controversial final three minutes.
But the drama had not ended as a challenge by Dickoh on Agard, saw a penalty awarded at the other end and a red card for the Ghanaian defender, with Jamie Hamill converting from 12 yards.
Avatar ended up making up its production costs to become the highest-grossing film of all time, but it is highly unlikely that a period drama and a literary adaptation at that will accomplish such a feat.
Wembley erupted, but there was more drama to come on a remarkable night at the new stadium.
But political calculations also figured into a mini-drama that resulted in the bill's passage late last week, as Obama and Republicans continue to blame one another for the inconveniences caused by across-the-board spending cuts.
The video is dull and grainy, but it shows real-life drama: A comeuppance for David Ji, an entrepreneur who built a billion-dollar business importing dirt-cheap DVD players from a booming China, where he was born, and selling them at Wal-Mart and Circuit City stores in the U.S., his adopted home for two decades.
The video is dull and grainy, but it shows real-life drama: A comeuppance for David Ji, a celebrated U.S.-bred entrepreneur who built a billion-dollar business importing dirt-cheap DVD players from a booming China, where he was born, and selling them at Wal-Mart and Circuit City stores in the U.S., his adopted home for two decades.
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