Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work hard and suffer long have a shy, easy grace in front of a camera. But it's a painfully easy grace--born and nourished in suffering. Kopple takes us inside their lives and, in moving sequences at the funerals of Joseph P. Yablonski, murdered reformer within the United Mine Workers, and Lawrence Jones, a miner assassinated in Harlan during a 13-month strike, inside their deaths. Kopple's camera moves with that smae painfully easy grace, darting around a landscape that always seems dark green, gray-blue, or black...
...film opens with miners hopping onto a conveyor belt and riding into Harlan's Brookside mine. In the background Merle Travis howls--"Come all you young fellers, so young and so fine, seek not your fortunes way down in the mines." Kopple cuts abruptly to Nimrod Workman, a retired miner. Workman sits on his porch and tells about going into the mines at ten, working 18 and 20 hours a day. Once a supervisor told him not to take his mule into a dangerous part of the mine. "But what about me?" Workman asked. "We can always a hire another...
...miners at Brookside and Eastover went on strike over Eastover Mining's refusal to accept their vote to join the UNWA. Eastover Mining is a subsidiary of Duke Power, one of the largest utilities in the country, and fewer than ten per cent of its workers are union members. Harlan mines are among the most unsafe in the world--in 1970, one day before the first anniversary of the passage of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, 38 miners died in an explosion at a nonunion mine at Hurricane Creek, only a half-hour away. The miners were...
...conversing, on his way to the bathroom. The funniest of these sequences occurs between Burstyn and Warner. As they sit on a park bench together, Warner exclaims with surprise, "I've got an erection." Burstyn, who has been trying to seduce him all film, is pleased. "It's not mine," he insists. "Then whose is it?" taunts Bogarde, who has suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Resnais and scriptwriter David Mercer are nothing if not clever...
Though his wife was in charge of family finances, Rabin was co-signer on the account, and. he conceded, "the responsibility was mine as much as hers." A lawyer for the couple also said that the Rabins had been unaware that a foreign account such as theirs had to be closed within a reasonable time after their return to Israel...