Screen:

...Gesture had been purified of pedestrian casualness and new pieces from her season were more fragmentary and less made over on a highly theatrical and heroic scale...

...who matured artistically in the years between the two world The studied use of straightforward action and private comwars...

...COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR...

...Inevitably, the technique of discifaster than the human mind can make a decision...

...Godell's problem is that everything might be all right...

...The sequentially ordered chain of events nuclear reactor are in the range of 10,000° F, the temperature did not seem as pertinent as the imprecise but evocative juxof the surface of the sun, a heat which the fuels used can reach tapostion of occurrences...

...beyond what a man can control...

...Because The China Syndrome television...

...Bizarrely, the accident in Pennsylvania was like the one in the Now in her fourteenth year of designing dances she has film...

...The station manager makes it clear that vibration," he whispers when Kimberley bends over him...

...The image resulting was you're using is unnecessary, and dangerous...

...The enthusiasm that of the slender, poker-faced dancer, shrugging, twisting for nuclear energy came out of "Atoms for Peace" back in the and slipping through space on surgically precise pathways 1950s, when the military needed a public relations program to with an almost mathematical sense of time...

...The potential temperatures of a to operate on instinct...

...Since her return to the screen several years ago, Lemmon is still the kind of man who responds to a crisis by Fonda's only concern has been to provide a role model for improvising the most unworkable solution...

...Other tions...

...The idea is to generalize Kim- the monitoring devices and back-up systems might miss...

...He Kimberley has a great future at the station, if she doesn't "go means that he can feel in the very flesh of his back the off half-cocked" on the story about the nuclear plant and risk a irregularity in the plant's machines which he has been futilely law suit from the power company...

...The fate of Jack Godell suggests that if ubiquitous TV personality whose manner reassures us that we we'd only let the people who love their work do it honestly, live in the best of all possible worlds...

...What clearly concerns Fonda here is the per- bottom line for The China Syndrome...

...To do that he and writer- with The China Syndrome as nothing but a thriller...

...The popularity of the technique is immediate and humanistic concerns...

...But the issue nuclear energy no matter how clear and certain he is about the danger at the raises is what happens when even those sorts of people -truly Commonweal: 242 bright, righteous, dedicated professionals-are wrong...

...She is doing a routine feature Nonetheless, it is the human factor in which The China on a nuclear power plant when an accident occurs, and her Syndrome finally attempts to place its faith...

...You're more likely variant of classical movement...

...The work of these precursors was chronological in ment, like the Shakespearian aside, is a device that courts sequence and causal in relationships...

...coloristic device...

...When last we to break the story of the year...

...Her solo " 1903" consisted of three short sections All of these elements were challenged in the 1960s when using music of the popular composer/singer Randy Newman, "chance" occurrences demonstrated a pre-rational logic of whose work, somewhat incongruously but entertainingly, em27 April 1979: 243...

...It's a sign of faith...

...The role Fonda hilarious...

...finally overcome that unflappable professional she was trained The issue involved in Kimberley's role is obviously a seri- to be...

...or no part in determining the rhythm of the resultant dances and Nuclear energy was a bad idea from the beginning, one whose was eliminated to a great extent, except as an occasional only necessity lay in ulterior motives...

...What berley's problems, to see how her experience might pertain to we see emerging in Kimberley afterwards, especially in a very any woman in the audience trying to gain a foothold in any hard-nose interview she does of one of Godell's colleagues just American corporation...

...on the allegiance from the network to the truth...

...Such matters are too important in their own right ley's...

...He Screen gets all tied up in irrelevancies and arcane technicalities...

...In The Apartment other women...

...The China Syndrome will, I hope, to mdve coolly but honestly, the problem of the '70s is how to make us think harder about what's happened in Pennsyl- incorporate past values with the new vocabulary...

...are revealed as the muscular feats they are...

...As soon as the camera goes on, no matter how shies away from the crucial issue involved in nuclear energy, it exasperated she's been, she instantly becomes the sort of is in the end a bad film...

...The downright dishonesty...

...But he couldn't take the pressure...

...Others sought out athletic gesture associated with games, these temperatures an energy source with an uncontainable, and Twyla Tharp seized upon the rough-and-tumble look of excessive potential of 10,000 F. is like trying to push a thumb casual, almost throwaway, gesture joined with a reined-in tack into a bulletin board with a pile driver...

...betrayal of all that gave vitality to theater dance...

...The dances moved along on a strict system of The accident at the Three Mile Island power plant in internal counts...

...She combined an "expresto knock the wall down than get the tack in because the task and sive" upper half of the body with a disciplined, though blunted the instrument are disproportionate...

...What makes Godell the sonal crisis portrayed, and the fact that the issue is nuclear hero of the film is this capacity to be a human seismograph, to safety means no more to her than the fact that the career be so absorbed in his work that he can feel in his guts what all involved is in television news...

...No matter plined movement which had previously served so well was also how attentive and conscientious a Jack Godell may be, he's questioned...

...It made him an I T's easy to see why Jane Fonda took the lead role in The alcoholic (Days of Wine and Roses) and eventually gave him a China Syndrome, and it has nothing to do with nuclear nervous breakdown (Save the Tiger...

...They have created a second character it may be both entertaining and right-minded...

...The vehicle runs over the subject it's supposed to be film neatly plays off Godell's experiences against Kimber- transporting...

...satisfying...

...Both involved the critical failure of a water pump...

...news at a California TV station...

...PAST VALUES IN A NEW VOCABULARY Traditional bravura dancing is pushed one step further and the mechanics of those seemingly effortless lifts which transport THE IMPERSONAL pull of abstraction posed special prob- young women gracefully from one side of the stage to the other lems for modern dance choreographers in the 1960s...

...She's story...

...Music played little justify the billions being spent on the technology of bombs...

...Her trouble is that she's too calm, cool and collected on to be used as mere metaphors...

...and the movement tech- audiences to enjoy the "inside" story as well as the surface niques devised to develop such situations were saturated with presentation...

...Miss Tharp's work was variously discounted Pennsylvania makes it impossible to accept the implications of as sloppy imprecision, a species of robot gesture and/or a The China Syndrome where nuclear energy is concerned...

...No one has ever seen a TWYLA THARP ballroom tango such as the one she presents, but it is recognizably a tango-quoted extensively as well as commented upon...

...Strict causal The plain, unarguable fact is that generating electricity with relationships were seriously questioned by a world that began nuclear energy is madness...

...drome but produced it, has said that he wasn't primarily Despite the disclaimers of the filmmakers, I think it's imconcerned with the issue of nuclear safety either...

...before she goes to pieces, is the same sort of instinct for her Michael Douglas, who not only acted in The China Syn- work...

...ing choreographer of her generation, Miss Tharp has been conspicuously successful...

...The amount of force movement through the legs and feet...

...The words are scarcely out of struggling to have a career repudiate the only people who can his mouth when the plant is nearly shaken apart...

...other hand, women also have to deal with the fact that hanging Godell's comparable moment comes shortly before this as on to those jobs may mean compromising your ethics or even he lies wounded on the floor of his own control room...

...their own that was anti-heroic and disquieting...

...But using a whose life crosses Kimberley's in the course of the film and matter of life and death like nuclear energy as a vehicle for pure involves a crisis parallel to hers...

...If the problem of the '60s was learning how Mile Island...

...He only possible now to set aside the issue of nuclear energy and deal wanted to make a good thriller...

...And generating electricity To many, everyday gesture became an avenue of exploraonly requires heats of 1,00W-2,000'F...

...One of her favorite techniques has been to present works, Dance such as the new "Baker's Dozen," which comment upon other dance forms-in this case social dancing-within the limits of her own squiggly style...

...Choreographers had to find new ways of moving dealing with a force whose energy and rate simply put it that reflected the erosion of previous values...

...This is the offer her one...

...As a director James Bridges have used the classic cinematic device morality play for women or corporate professionals in general, of the crosscut story...

...But her station, yielding to see Kimberley, she goes before the cameras at the power plant, pressure from the power company, wants her to sit on the and finds herself unable to speak...

...At first it was funny when the poor guy got FAITH IN THE HUMAN FACTOR caught in the snares and traps of the business world, as in The Apartment...

...But when he responds to the power plant-crisis with plays in this film is Kimberley Wells, an anchorwoman on the the same mentality, it costs him his life...

...On the one hand, women camera as Godell was, she shows us that she has switched her want prestigious, influential, lucrative jobs like hers...

...A CHINAMAN'S CHANCE This corporate ditherer is the role that Jack Lemmon has always played...

...In The China Syndrome energy...

...The piece unfurls in They had inherited an art form which received its most a rippling flow that has great wit and beauty in addition to a powerful impetus from dramatically minded choreographers glance at the means of its realization...

...What is needed, cameraman (Michael Douglas) gets the whole episode in the the film ultimately implies, is just people who are more complant's control room on film...

...As the leadvania...

...but this time, history has perhaps arranged a but also reflects a new concern for musical warmth and even a better one by timing the film's release to coincide with Three sense of glamour...

...Now she finds herself with a chance their work enough to sacrifice their careers for it...

...The China Syndrome follows suit where Julia, he tried to strain spaghetti with a tennis racket, and it was Coming Home and California Suite have led...

...Should a woman who is warning the company was there...

...The way...

...She has been hoping to do hard mitted to their work than their job, people who are involved in news instead of features...

...By permitting herself to be ineffectual in front of the ous one for the women's movement...

...He is Jack Godell (Jack entertainment is like trying to use the concentration camps that Lemmon), the chief operating engineer at the power plant...

...Trying to keep down to tion...

...He counterpoints her vacuous authority with a TV presence that has no authority at all...

...The body was sturdily muscled, shaped the humor has been communicated not only to audiences of her into dramatically stressed movement designs and imbued with own company but to those of the Joffrey Ballet and American the emotional concerns inherent in male and female confronta- Ballet Theater, for whom she has also created works...

...In the presented a season (at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in old days, Hollywood had no equal when it came to arranging February) that contains all of her hard-won stylistic solutions publicity stunts...