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...obvious and unoriginal as that, An Officer and a Gentleman still works. The tension and yearnings pent up inside of aspiring Navy pilot Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) are vivid and believable. You may think you're too sophisticated for an underdog-gets-crewcut-and-makes-good saga, but wait until Mayo is face down in the mud, "doin' 50" for that bastard Sergeant Foley. You'll suddenly find you own tightly clenched fist pounding the arm rest with every rep. "Yes SIR! I'd LIKE to do some more push...
...keys to success for this lough old-style romance are the two relationships pulling Mayo apart with the strength of plow horses. The son of a drunken sailor, he enlists in the Port Ranter Naval Aviation Office Candidate School to learn to fly jets. There he crashes into Foley, whom I ours Gosset Jr. masterfully molds into a merciless embodiment of martial discipline. There is no heart of gold beneath Foley's taut Black skin: the scorn he displays for his charges on the first day of their 13-week baste training stint changes only to bitter, unstated resentment...
...veteran slave driver instinctively picks out Mayo as his bad boy, and the two grow to hate each other effortlessly. As much as Foley demeans the trainee. Mayo feels compelled to struggle on, to prove to himself more than anyone else that he can outlast his opponent When the two part company at film's end. Ensign Mayo concedes without emotion that he wouldn't have persevered without Foley's reverse-psychology butt-kicking. Gosset draws his lips into a by-now familiar tight line and hisses. "Get the fuck out of here...
...York City, for example, Mount Sinai and Presbyterian hospitals are planning modernization programs that when completed are projected to cost a combined total of more than $1 billion. Officials at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., the nation's largest privately operated group medical complex, offer the startling calculation that, nationwide, it costs as much as $9 million to add a year of life to the seriously ill patient through such ultramodern technologies as kidney dialysis and organ transplants...
...clearly two working at cross-purposes here: Greeley the romantic, wishing that life could be full of grace, and Greeley the realistic priest, who knows how dark human souls can be. The priest keeps trying to explain, but it is the bitter romantic who keeps getting even. -By Mayo Mohs. Reported by J. Madeleine Nash/Chicago...