Word: bootcamp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remembers his brother Ignacio, 26, who has the same job as his father. "But he said this place was too boring for him." He also wanted to emulate his eldest brother Juan, who had been in the Marine Corps. Two years ago, while still in school, Alex got a bootcamp-style skinhead haircut. Says Dinallo: "Alex's feeling was that the Marines were a No. 1 bunch of guys and that's where he wanted...
...suitable for Richard Pryor, 42, or Eddie Murphy, 22. Coming off his Academy Award-winning performance in last year's An Officer and a Gentleman, Gossett is now working on a four-hour TV biography of Egypt's late President Anwar Sadat. The tough bootcamp bearing Gossett picked up during his stint in Officer should come in handy. For Sadat picks up the Egyptian leader's life when he was a junior military officer renowned for his rigid back and fierce determination...
...Harvard, then was hired by the Washington Post, "where I went from covering riots to covering the White House." He left in 1977 for the Berkeley campus of the University of California to establish a training program for minority journalists, which he ran, in his words, "like a bootcamp." Maynard applies the same tough standards to his own work. "There is no way for a poor man to get to own a newspaper," he says, "unless it is a paper that requires a lot of himself...
...month after shooting their last scene, these men and women-the M*A*S*H actors, writers and producers-are emerging from an experience that for some of them amounted to an eleven-year blend of encounter therapy and bootcamp. "I'm totally exhausted and depressed," sighs Farr. Says Swit: "I feel as if I've never not done M*A*S*H." Ask them what the show was, what made it unique, and you get a jumble of answers and impressions. From Alda: "The audience made a pact with us. We could be as imaginative and exploratory...
There are no frills, a bootcamp approach shared with the Navy's Alcohol Rehabilitation Service in Long Beach, Calif., which has treated Betty Ford and Billy Carter. Residents at Long Beach make beds and scrub toilets, but at MARRinc they are also expected to shop for groceries, cook and tend the yard. There are no live-in housekeepers. Says Ann Martin, the Atlanta Junior League's representative on MARRinc's executive board: "A number of interim care facilities have somebody to do everything for you but attend the therapy groups...