Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cruise find much to dine on here; the film is a 100-minute canape. Maybe it was meant to be a Bright Lights, Big City with a happy ending, and with booze instead of dope as the recreational drug of choice. Bryan Brown, who plays Cruise's misanthropic mentor, does eventually go the way of all flash: he can cope with everything but success. But if there is a moral here, it is lost in the film's desperate dash to ingratiate. As Cruise says at Cocktail's climax, "I tried to sell out to you, but I couldn...
Attractive, cultured and correctly attuned ideologically, Raisa Gorbachev was the model of the modern Soviet woman and an asset to her husband as he entertained Moscow dignitaries vacationing in the spas near Stavropol. Among them was Yuri Andropov, then chief of the KGB, who eventually became Mikhail's mentor. In 1978 Mikhail Gorbachev was promoted to Party Secretary for Agriculture, and the couple finally returned to Moscow. By 1985 Mikhail was General Secretary of the party and the leader of the Soviet Union. Spotting a photograph of Andropov in Washington last year, Raisa said, "We owe everything...
...story line. For a novelty, the superhero this time is discovered not aroil but tranquil, living in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand. Sure, he occasionally indulges in the local sport of stick fighting to keep in trim, but mostly he enjoys the silence and the sunsets. When his mentor and only friend, Colonel Sam Trautman (Richard Crenna), is captured by a particularly disagreeable Soviet officer while trying to aid the Afghan rebels, Rambo is recalled to primitive business as usual. There are, of course, low cunning, high explosives and much running around without a shirt, punctuated with other familiar gambits...
...like having the whole family here," Jim says. "He's a mentor, especially when it comes to lifting weights. I can go over to his room and attack him, and that's fine. It's like having a therapist here. We've become a lot closer since high school. We're both gaining the Harvardian experience...
Encourage minority students to go into teaching, through an annual meeting with the dean and a mentor system...