Word: appalachian
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...this southwestern Appalachian mining town of 3,500, nine out of ten adult residents are out of work, making it one of the hardest-hit areas in the hardest-hit state in the country. Mining industry layoffs have pushed unemployment in West Virginia to 21%, up eight percentage points in the past year and the highest rate for any state in the nation...
...Martinson, manager of the Appalachian Mountain Club's Pinkham Notch hut, said Brockman's accident occurred at 1:15 p.m. and that Brockman was taken to Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin, N H. where he was pronounced dead on arrival from massive head and internal injuries...
Foxfire. Those who hew to goodness and revere the customs of their forebears are rarely met with on a New York stage. Here they are in this tale of Appalachian tenacity, fashioned by Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn. And who better to memorialize their griefs and joys than Cronyn and Jessica Tandy? Good. How does a liberal-minded German classics professor become Eichmann's right-hand man at Auschwitz? In C.P. Taylor's play, the gifted Alan Howard makes the insidious slope to hell plausible and harrowing...
Most of the men in the bowling alley could tell you the year, the model and maybe the serial number of every car there. They probably built most of them. That is why they came to Detroit from the rural South and kept on coming for three decades. Appalachian roots still show in the way the men stand. Pride straightens the spine like nothing else. The Southern community, they are called, or "country people," or - very carefully and at some risk if it comes from an outsider's at some risk if it comes from an outsider...
...gangster and his moll against gray-clad ciphers in a workers' state, concluding in a massacre. Private Domain (1969) exposes a beach full of muscle builders, sexual athletes and Esther Williams-style chorus lines. Orbs (1966) harks back to the wedding scene in Martha Graham's landmark Appalachian Spring. Here, however, the screwball marriage takes place in "Terrestrial Autumn," where a drunk polkas with a rubber turkey...