Word: oaters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through it all Kopple evokes the sense of a community divided. At one point state police move strikers back forcibly so scabs' cars can get to the mine. Oater, one of the men shouts in a state policeman's face, "Bailey! I know you! You're a damn disgrace to the Bailey family!" Somebody says of Basil Carr, "He had the nerve to run for sheriff." Later the sheriff will try to get strikers to jove a car out of the roadway so scabs can get through, and Lois Scott, a leader of the miners' wives, attacks him for aiding...
...spirit to transcend the wind-blown banalities of the plot. Most bothersome is the conception of Catherine as a selfish, useless whiner who is brought to her senses and full womanhood through the ministrations of Grobart. Even if Cat Dancing is meant to be only a kind of soap-oater fantasy, it is an especially demeaning...