Word: silkwoods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DECISION REVERSED. For Kristi, 17; Michael, 14; and Dawn Meadows, 13, children of the late Karen Silkwood (eponymous heroine Of the movie Silkwood), alleged victim of radiation at the Kerr-McGee nuclear plant near Crescent, Okla.; by a 5-to-4 U.S. Supreme Court affirmation of a $10 million award won in a 1979 negligence suit against her employer, but overturned by a federal appeals court. Kerr-McGee plans to challenge the award...
Support for Silkwood...
Your review of Silkwood [Dec. 19] is nasty and obtuse. Silkwood is a troubling film, and Meryl Streep is brilliant. The movie does not patronize working-class people, but shows the horrors of their subjection to nightmares like radioactive contamination...
Hollywood, the shotgun marriage of art and industry, is never more schizophrenic than at Christmas. With its few "serious" movies (Yentl, Silkwood, Terms of Endearment), Tinseltown acts as pious as a tot on Santa's knee, straining to prove that it has been a model of decorum all year long, daring to ask for a big shiny Oscar. But with its "entertainment"pictures, Hollywood yearns to play Kriss Kringle, filling every Christmas stocking with a cheap thrill or a giddy giggle. So slapdash are these entertainments that the industry looks to be holding a year-end fire sale, with...
...like approach. In short, the moviemakers are backed into a corner from which neither show-biz sophistry nor a resort to the kind of radical-chic attitudes Nichols has always favored, nor yet a hundred hymns, can lift them. The final unspoken implication of this film is that Karen Silkwood's tragedy lay in the fact that she was cut down just short of the point at which she would have attained that truly amazing state of grace where she would have become a suitable speaker for fund raisers in the Hamptons or Beverly Hills. The humblest among...