The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 15, Ed. 1, Friday, October 22, 1982 Page: 3 of 29
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'Mother Lode': Heston glitters but film dull
If you like Charlton Heston enough to spend
two hours with him in a murky mineshaft go
see "Mother Lode." If you're only marginally
fond of Heston or are claustrophobic hang on
to your wallet.
Rated PG for violence and showing at the
UA Cinema "Mother Lode" is the story of the
struggle to find the source or lode of the
richest gold mind in history. Nick Mancuso
plays Gene Dupre a greedy young geologist
who sets out for British Columbia tosearchfor
missing colleague George Patterson. Pat-
terson's girlfriend Andrea Spalding played by
Kim Dasingcr tags along to help find George.
The pair find the lake where Patterson's
float plane landed but find no trace of him
Instead they stumble onto wizened Scotsman
Silas McGee played with earthy authority by
Heston. McGee makes a living from the
nearby silver mine he's worked for the past 30
years. Dupre however soon suspects that
McGee's mine holds not silver but gold and
that McGee also is searching for the lode. The
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geologist sets out to find the lode before
McGee can leading to a murderous com-
petition between the two.
The film-is an odd hybrid of adventure talc
horror movie and love story and the styles fit
together like a soggy jigsaw puzzle. Mancuso
supposedly is to represent the incorrigible but
lovable swashbuckling rascal along the lines
of Harrison Ford. For example Basinger's
response to our hero's dilapidated float plane
is "Star Wars" deja vu recalling Princess
Leia reviling Han Solo's beloved Millenium
Falcon.
The second half of the movie lapses into
cheap scare tactics often with much more
buildup than is justified seemingly a weak
attempt at a sort of spelunking "Friday the
13th."
Filmed entirely on location in British
Columbia the movie often is visually
breathtaking. It's all the more unfortunate
therefore that some of the film editing seems
to have been done with a jackhammer.
The high point of the film is Heston's per-
formance. His paunchy grimy McGee is
quirkyyet believable and his Scottish'brbgue
is perfect. Kudos to Seigfried Geike for
Heston's makeup-he looks as if1 he's jitst
crawled out of a peatbog.
Other actors don't fare as well. Basinger's
Andrea is ineffectual and looks like a fugitive
from a Mountain Dew commercial and my
greatest wish for Mancuso's Dupre was to
have him get the shaft quite literally. Overall
in "Mother Lode" all that glitters is Charlton
Heston.
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To the editor:
With all the controversy surrounding proper
dress particularly mini-skirts and what is
appropriate I think a large number of women
have been neglected. I just want to even the
score. Considering myself a fairly good judge
of dress and character and I'm sure some
would debate that point I want to praise the
majority of women on campus who regularly
dress modestly and yet very attractively.
A roommate and I were walking to the
library one morning when a young lady
walking with two gentlemen I wouldn't want to
tangle with came toward us. As the three
were about to pass us the girl smiled said
hello and went on by. She was modestly
dressed which spoke well for" her self-
confidence and respect yet had a smile and
friendliness that could easily have won my
vote for Homecoming Queen ( though she is not
one of the "chosen ten"). As 1 floated the rest
of the way to the library I knew I'd seen real
attractiveness. And I've seen no better fashion
than attractiveness.
As I said before most of the women on
campus are like the girl I described. I like that
and I hope they do not get discouraged from
being that way. I can't speak for all the men on
campus but I suspect I do for quite a few of
them. Kindness and modesty together are
quite a turn-on.
Scott Conner
Graduate Abilene
Street preacher
To the editor:
After talking with Dean Garvin Beauchamp
on Tuesday I'm convinced that the "man in
black" street preacher Cecil Henninger
really got a raw deal.
Why was he told to leave campus last
Thursday and not return to preach? Was it
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because he was disrupting students on their
lunch break? I don't think so. Does a preacher
of the Bible have to carry around a speaking
schedule and credentials to be accepted?
Dean Beauchamp told me that the normal
procedure for speaking on campus was to be
sponsored by an individual department
related to that speaker's field. In Henninger's
case this is the Bible department. I asked
Dean Beauchamp "Wouldn't it be hard for a
man of Henninger's irregularities (namely the
black clothes and forceful language) to get
approval by a department? To which he
replied "Well if so what's the problem?"
. The problem is we don't need preachers of
the Word filtered out because of institutional
bureaucracy and red tape. I believe the
students themselves can decide what's right
and wrong when they hear it and if there's a
question in their minds there are plenty of
teachers on campus who would be willing to
help them.
Besides what ever happened to free speech
and the right to assemble? At a Christian
school one should gain rights not lose them !
Mark Witt
Senior Amarillo
Clements supporter
To the editor:
As students of a private university we all
are aware of the high cost of private education
and the importance of the Texas Equalization
Grant program. This program has made it
possible for many students to attend ACU who
otherwise would not have been able to.
I have lobbied at the Capitol in Austin on
behalf of our TEG program and have learned
first-hand how hard Gov. Bill Clements has
worked to get our TEG bill funded in the Texas
Legislature. Governor Clements has stood up
for us when we needed him. I hope the ACU
faculty staff and student body will turn out
and give him their support on Nov. 2 when he
needs us.
Kern Lewis
Senior Odessa
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The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 15, Ed. 1, Friday, October 22, 1982, newspaper, October 22, 1982; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth96023/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.