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...stunning Academy Award winning performance in Sophie's Choice, Streep delves wholeheartedly into her role, displaying nuances and foibles that make Silkwood believable. We feel her physical revulsion when she gets brutally showered and scrubbed after receiving radiation contamination; we see her go through the motions of a rather doldrum life, confront her roommate's homosexuality, and unconsciously adapt to the volatile world of union politics when she decides to actively fight her company's wrongdoings...
...standard characters provide refreshing excitement in this comedy doldrum. A. Larry Haines plays the Jewish business partner who squirms up to Albert suggesting that he sell him his half of the business and turn to "harlots" for solace. He cringes away when Albert barks back his objections. Stockard Channing is the neurotic and pushy daughter who returns in the middle of her honeymoon to try to patch up her parents' marriage. She is funny mostly because she is a totally unappealing character. She scowls when she is thinking, and thrusts her chin in the air with a little shimmy when...
...Bill Haley and His Comets (Rock Around the Clock) and the rhythmic caterwauling of Elvis Presley. But even they were bleached-out copies of the vibrant, earthy rhythm-and-blues sung in the subculture of Negro music. Until the early 1960s, rock 'n' roll went through a doldrum of derivative mewing by white singers, with only occasional breakthroughs by such Negroes as Ray Charles and Fats Domino...
Walter was hunched up in his windows seat. It was in Matthews, or else in Weld, I have forgotten which. Both Halls flank Grays. It was in the after-luncheon doldrum time of day, when mankind in its senses should be ossified and not prodded. Walter was tired out: "brain fag", the railroad men would call it. He was ripe to be keynoter at a convention on explosives. And all unconsciously, he was just that, for the convention sat in silence in a score of open windows...
Until John Lewis burst onto the scene, the Miami council meeting had followed the familiar, doldrum-ridden pattern. The members-whose ages average 63-met only until noon, then sunned themselves (fully clothed) on the roof garden or the second-floor veranda, where they watched Biscayne Boulevard's traffic, talked about old times, and cursed C.I.O...