Word: snelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mothers' mind-sets have altered about their children, especially their daughters. Says Kathy Snell, 25, an Illinois farm wife, speaking of her four-year-old daughter: "I hope she doesn't spend her whole life learning how to please people. I spent so much of my energy making other people like me that it took 23 years to like myself. I want my daughter to be independent...
...film is about one real skater who has made it big (Charlie O'Connell. captain of the San Francisco Bay Bombers), and another who wants desperately to follow him around the same successful turn. Mike Snell works in the Firestone Tire plant in Dayton, Ohio, and dreams of making it in big-time derby competition. Kaylor intercuts footage of O'Connell and Snell: the derby hero bashing his rivals, leading his team, conducting a tour of a moneyed man's San Francisco, and Hero Worshiper Snell going through the day-today hassles of making a tentative kind...
Kaylor uses a kind of modified neorealist technique in which real people re-enact real situations. The results are often stunning. There is a pervasive tone of desperation in Derby, a sense of ironic, backhanded success about O'Connell and a pitiful aimlessness in Snell. As the documentary ends, he gets on a motorcycle and rides out to roller derby school in San Francisco. Snell says he wants to "better" himself, but Derby has made it clear that success will mean no more than living a hollow dream. Jay Cocks
...Publisher Allan Barren, a bush-bearded black from New Jersey who once ran a computer company. The first issue adds little to the public's considerable knowledge of such obvious star subjects as pro basketball's Lew Alcindor and Oscar Robertson and football's Matt Snell. But Barren hopes to develop other healthy heroes for young blacks, who, he claims, "now identify only with guys on the block, like pimps and pushers." Because he could not find a qualified black to serve as editor, Barren appointed a white friend, Freelancer Joseph Hemingway, to head an otherwise...
Mussolini of the Soul. West's first novel, a fiercely funny series of skits and snits called The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931), states his intricate satiric credo: "I must laugh at myself, and if the laugh is 'bitter,' I must laugh at the laugh. I always find it necessary to burlesque the mystery of feeling at its source." West's second book, a tiny, blasphemous masterpiece called Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), is an almost insanely intense travesty of Christ's ministry and passion that describes the Calvary of a male reporter who writes...