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',Call#IB>AA?l' UIIIVVVUUU Streep plays By Margarita Pate "Silkwood" is not a movie about the nuclear issue, nor is it a movie about the pros and cons ot unionization. It's not even a story about whether one should get involved or keep one's mouth shut. Instead, "Silkwood" is a poignant, almost too sensitive portrayal of a little person up against a huge, ill-defined foe ? a foe that has no face, no rules that mean anything and no conscience. Meryl Streep gives a performance so en tnraiung ana so consuming one forgets tne actress ever played anyone else but the Oklahoma blue-collar worker she portrays in this film. When watching this movie, you don't see the emotionally torn Mrs. Kramer, or the heart rending, innocent Auschwitz survivor of "Sophie's Choice." Karen Silk wood works in a fuel processing plant where they manufacture plutonium rMklltttc TKA natlafc ar* + pvuvvj A AAV- pVAIVlJ CVA V (JCIVIVVU A AA dl IlliU dlli^ig rods, then grouped into larger bundles, which are cut into cross-sections and packaged and shipped out. Everyone who works in the plant, with the exception of those in shipping, must wear white jump suits with gloves, boots, hats and, sometimes gas masks. rri 9 -1 1 _ - ine suns ana eiaooraie precautionary measures don't make the character feel safe, but make her feel the danger must be imminent and potentially destructive. 'Who's' Daltrey BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ? A yeai breakup of The Who, Roger Daltrey has disc life after the rock supergroup. Not only is there life, but there is Shakespe In one of the oddest bits of casting since C played a soap opera queen in "Tootsie," Dal both Dromio twins in "The Comedy of Error: 20. No one could be more surprised than Dal Daltrey began his music career in a Brigh dollar a night and all the beer I could drink ? a pint." At 15 he was thrown out of school, a i BREAI AT THE GO! ADMISSION $ ! i 10REIGIN CAR REl I 5L: \ g^BElE" ^gfim&t&BBKn^BBBKfiBEKIE^BBK*^ <mmmaSSSBSm.WkM ilMv.;. v...... av^. } ? [ .;. ! : SAAB SI : m TUIfJ s HAT FACTORY TRAINED TECHI J WE SERVICE ANY MAKE FORI I Jflii?lDS?N SPIRTS ? . - 3815 West Beltline Blv I Columbia, South Carolina 2 77!-1550 lotoct rnlo lAiith - luiuai i uiv vviiii i The trouble starts when Silkwood arranges for a fellow worker to take her week-end shift so she can go to Texas and visit her three children. When she comes back, she finds herself the scapegoat for a contamination "fall-out" in her sector. Soon after, while routinely passing her hands over a radiation detector on her way out of the sector, the sirens go off. She's been "fried." The next scene where they scrub her with a metal brush in the showerr is positively painful. next thing she knows, she's being moved to another department where her job is to cut cross-sections and make negatives of the finished product. After her exposure, Silkwood starts reading about plutonium and exposure levels and sets nervous. She starts to Question the safety regulations at the plant, and, before long, becomes involved with union business. Her involvement is not too well received by plant officials or by fellow workers who fear their jobs may be in jeapordy. Silkwood's contamination keeps getting worse. She gets fried again, and once more the sirens go off just as she's walking into the plant. Kurt Kussen portrays sine wooas uve-in boyfriend, Drew. He also works at the plant, but he's a laid-back guy who would be perfectly content to own his own garage and live bait store. Russell is not a strong discovers Shakesi r after the final on as a sheet metal apprentice. :overed there is clubs with school buddies, in< Jfihn Entwistle. :are. Millions of singles and albun Justin Hoffman end. It happened Dec. 17, 1982 Itrey appears as "Do I miss it?The answer is s" on PBS Feb. we thought it was time to quit, trey. ourselves. We weren't breakin ton bar "for a continued we would have beco at that age, half Daltrey, a rich man, could tu nd he was hired . and five children to their farm i K FOR TH a eg -sQSay hi Hi H t .DEN SPUR 1\ 2.00 9:00 HEINI *?*.! Fvml ^ *DELI I||! I "Famous Rib H I ^ features a juiq j I salad, potati 1 I And it LII/MAKIC I I xiiuiniNo " | eigncarsE i ; 1 Only $! rids : 1 iw ? EH glf >9204 I I ^ # zeal, skiiitui de " , :'i^M?:n- - - ^SwjSSBMSro ,?hpOI >Si&;:. . Karen SHkwood (Meryl Streep), her lover Drew disaster in "SHkwood." character, but he does bring a certain reality to his role, and his absence is accutely felt by the characters in the movie and by the audience. A pleasant surprise is the performance by Cher. Cast as Dolly, Streep's other roomate, Cher is marvelously funny and sweet in her characterization of friend, co-worker and peare after qroui But by night, he was playing time there dui eluding Peter Townsend and The Who. A Should Be Pi ns later, The Who came to an Opera," dire< I, in Toronto. ter Cherry." yes," declared Daltrey. "But before we became a parody of When his g any new ground, and if we Daltrey repli me a circus act." suaed to read ive retired with his second wife enough to au in Sussex. But he has spent less a Shakespear E PEDES iURS. & FRI. J EKEN DRAUGHT 'S * ' I r Abbott Dr. I LO II 1CII eye Special" % ) 1 Vella's Rlbeye , 9 and Bread \ 's all for \ 2.99 ? * I V ^ B S> ooe'<>? E" 1 fo"1 i * termination c jgSNSj, (Kurt Russell) and DoWy (Cher), her best friend face supporter. We don't get a chance to hear her sing in the movie, but we do get to see that she can act. Based on a true story, "Silkwood" leaves you hanging at the end. The speculation as to "who done it?" is clear, but the consequences and implications of what happened are left open-ended. i's breakup -ine the nast vsar than when he was a memher r?f b,mong his activities: a solo album, "Parting ainless"; A BBC production of "The Beggar's :ted by Jonathan Miller; and a short film, "Bitagent called about "The Comedy of Errors,'* ed, "I can't stand Shakespeare." He was perthe play and didn't understand it. But he studied dition, and to his surprise, he was cast. Now he's e enthusiast. i i mania !AN. 26 & 27 PITCHERS $3.50 I \ J - k/nq# J^a/mtum- &fu)U)Mcfi ' '"**4. 3arbcra lav/ ft l&cnu, -, wad&?> timdeAbjnd UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROUNA Russell House - Ballroom Monday. 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