Word: millers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...documentary of miners and a coal strike in Harlan Country, Kentucky is very worth seeing. Kopple skillfully weaves a pastiche of film clips from the 1930s, when the county was known as "Bloody Harlan," footage of UMWA leaders from John L. Lewis to Tony Boyle, Jock Yablonski, and Arnold Miller, and always the 13-month strike that didn't end until miner Lawrence Jones was murdered by scabs. The music is first-rate--all old union songs, some by local hero David Morris of Ivydale, West Virginia, Kopple's camera is discreet; there is no voice-over narration...
...favorable -almost as many letters as poured in last November when it temporarily dropped the popular Doonesbury comic strip. But on Capitol Hill, Congressmen almost unanimously described their energy mail as light to moderate. "It's an absolute drop in the bucket compared with saccharin," said Melody Miller, a Ted Kennedy aide...
AGAINST A background of degredation, then, the rest of the yard's intimates live out their lives. As Sophie, a mother of two and the wife of an unemployed athlete, Martina Miller appears completely unsympathetic at first, a strident busybody who bitches without reason or mercy. Gradually, however, another side of her character emerges: trapped in a life of broken dreams, she is seen as the only force holding her family together. As her husband Charlie, Rick Guthrie is a broken dreamer, unable to produce the money the family needs to supplement their daughter's newly won scholarship, while Nikki...
...with its highlight: a charismatic vignette by Patty Woo as the devilishly sensuous maid. Uninhibited and secure in her own sexuality, Petra serves as a foil to the other characters, who are trapped in false unions and unable to heed their hearts' urgings. Woo's eloquent rendition of "The Miller's Son," a defense of her free and easy lifestyle and a prayer for future stability, is her only moment in the spotlight. But the energy and excitement she brings to this number throw into relief the relative absence of those qualities from the rest of the show...
...Margaret Miller Sanchez Hattiesburg, Miss...