Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California. They've even found a new "Deep Throat": a control-room supervisor at the plant who fears that the accident may happen again, and go out of control. The result is a race against the clock, against the utility company that runs the plant, and against the television station manager who wants to avoid controversy at any cost. The film is The China Syndrome, but unlike All the President's Men, nobody knows the ending, so it is a fine, riveting thriller that manages to scare and entertain at the same time...
...went home. Within a few hours an estimated 200 white teenagers surrounded the project and demanded that the family come out. Bricks and rocks were thrown at the apartment, one hitting the youngest baby. When the police were finally called, the family was taken to a nearby police station with the understanding that their property would be protected. In their absence, their apartment was firebombed with molotov cocktails that completely destroyed all of their possessions...
Douglas secretly begins filming the panic unfolding in the room below him, while Fonda rushes back to the station, convinced that she has a story that will catapult her into hard news and out of fluff. But the station manager kills the story, after conferring with the power company's P.R. man. Fonda and Douglas keep trying to get the story out, and Lemmon joins their effort. The accident has alerted him to serious problems in the plant's safety precautions and he finds that inspection documents have been falsified. Lemmon tries, unsuccessfully, to prevent the plant from starting...
Lemmon, despite Fonda's good performance and striking beauty, carries the film. Where Fonda and Douglas have roles that don't test them greatly, Lemmon takes a difficult role and plays it masterfully. As Goodell, the station manager, he develops from a staunch defender of nuclear power and its safety to a scandalized activist who realizes that corporate power and economic necessity have corrupted the safety procedures and inspections he holds sacred. Lemmon communicates the emotional torture that Goodell endures before he is finally forced to take action against the officials he believes will destroy his beloved plant--and with...
...didn't know the guy and couldn't even see him, but I had no problem hearing the slightly delirious, slightly drunk UNH fan as our packed piece of the Green Line weaved its way from North Station to Park Street last Saturday night...