Word: appalachia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people who run across one or the other along the way, and their speech is wonderfully correct. Vinny and Dom, his Boston cops, are a little too pat ("Pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd") but they still sound, well, like Boston cops. Sayles also captures the peculiar accents of Appalachia, especially the banter of men who work hard, as when one tells another, "You're so ugly you have to tie a pork chop around your neck just to git the dawg to play with...
Kopple considered trying to distribute the film herself, decided against it, and rammed through a tough deal with Cinema 5, a major independent film distributor. Harlan County has been shown in Appalachia for free, people with union cards got a dollar off the admission price, and Kopple gets ten benefits a year, of which "I've already used 12." The film opens in 40 theaters across the country this week. It's already been used in one benefit Kopple knew nothing about, and probably would have opposed--Arnold Miller raised $10,000 for his re-election campaign to the UMWA...
...patch of road, the U.S. economic recovery that had been picking up speed for weeks has begun to skid. The bitter cold and unrelenting snows that have gripped the U.S. east of the Rockies are throwing onto unemployment rolls hundreds of thousands of workers, ranging from coal miners in Appalachia to oystermen who cannot chop through the ice in Chesapeake Bay. Soaring prices for fruit and vegetable crops damaged by the freeze are giving a new push to inflation. Worse, even if the weather should warm up suddenly, which hardly seems likely, many economic effects of the Big Freeze will...
...unlike any other. Juanita Morris Kreps, 55, administrative vice president of North Carolina's Duke University, is the first woman ever appointed to that 63-year-old Cabinet office. She is also a labor economist, a graduate of a college that catered largely to penurious families in Southern Appalachia and a low-key feminist determined to help women find their place in the sun. She comes to Commerce with a very definite aim: to "encourage business to perform well all tasks that improve human welfare...
Defiant Dilemma. In fact, he offers no answers to this defiant dilemma. But he regards Appalachia as a microcosm of America. Unless deterioration can be stopped here, we will have proved ourselves an ungoverning and ungovernable people. If greed-and-need continues to dictate, Caudill predicts, strip mines will next "demolish the West as a viable ecosystem...