Word: mentor
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Director Frank Marshall's debut effort betrays his debt to the work of his mentor and fellow executive producer, Steven Spielberg, and in turn, Alfred Hitchcock. The basic premises of Arachnophobia invoke themes featured prominantly in many of Spielberg and Hitchcock's films...
...without doubt a grievously neglected one. His music went out of fashion: the suave, reflective, at times slightly too decorative appeal to the senses inherited from Matisse, the thoughtful sense of paint-substance he had learned from the artist he admired above all others, his older friend and mentor Georges Braque. And it was true that De Stael had a weakness for the charming formula that was not dispelled by his frenetic rate of production. In his short maturity, less than a decade from 1947 to his death, he turned out more than 1,000 pictures...
...richer ironies of Soviet political life that Gorbachev initially served as Yeltsin's patron and mentor. During the 1970s, Yeltsin was party secretary of Sverdlovsk (pop. 1.4 million), 850 miles east of Moscow, and thus came to know Gorbachev, his counterpart in the city of Stavropol. When Gorbachev became party secretary in charge of agriculture in 1978, the friendship blossomed; whenever the two met, Yeltsin later related, "we would embrace warmly." In 1985 Gorbachev tapped him to be the clean broom needed to sweep out the corruption in the Moscow city party organization. Yeltsin handled the task with such verve...
HOME IS WHERE THE DEMS GO. He was reared there, and his old law school mentor is Governor of the state. No wonder Ronald Brown, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is leaning toward New York City as the site of the 1992 convention. The city has pledged to defray a larger amount of convention costs ($22 million) than its two rivals, Cleveland ($15 million) and New Orleans ($13 million), and its Democratic fund raisers have promised to help fill the coffers of the nominee. But Gotham's recent racial flare-ups have given pause even to some...
Before the match, Harvard Coach Dave Fish said he was worried about the Toreros' one-through-six singles depth. But the Crimson's fourth, fifth and sixth seeds set their mentor's fears to rest. Harvard sophomores Jon Cardi, Derek Brown and Albert Chang each pulled out a three-set match--sending Toreros Chris Toomey, Kevin Bradley and Thomas Simonsen down to bitter defeats...