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...determined teen-age spirit over adversity. Like Rocky, it offers the spectacle of a young man punishing his body in order to aquire the skill and toughness to win a big fight against long odds. Like "the Star Wars saga, it provides him with a Yoda-like mentor full of gnomic instruction and inspiration in his struggle against evil. In short, The Karate Kid presents the smallest imaginable variations on three well-tested formulas for movie success...
Mondale had also earned a moment of self-congratulation. He had shed enough of his Norwegian reserve to kill the old suspicion, once expressed by his Minnesota mentor Hubert Humphrey, that he lacked "fire in the belly." Still carrying Humphrey's banner of liberalism and contending that his was the party of compassion, Mondale bucked the austere, antigovernment spirit of the times. At several junctures he was down and almost out; each time he bounced back and recaptured the lead. If he scores his expected nomination victory, he will start the November race a heavy underdog. But he will start...
...best leadoff hitter I've ever coached," says Crimson mentor Alex Nahigian, who has spent the past quarter century coaching college baseball...
...taking pre-med courses, Larry spent much of the year as a founding force behind the Committee on Central America (COCA). Everyone agrees that Larry had a huge influence on dorm life, but no one agrees how. The words that emerge from people's descriptions of him range from "Mentor" to "Moonie," from "inspiration" to "brainwashing...
...shock in its infancy; new "generations" of talent can arrive every few years, encouraged by the new Old Guard. With Gremlins Spielberg, 36, has played godfather to two successive waves of moviemakers: Dante, 36, and Columbus, now all of 25, who is at work writing another script for his mentor. Says Spielberg: "You can drop a stone into the black hole of Chris' imagination and never hear it hit bottom. I'd never thought about directing Gremlins myself-I wanted to take a long vacation from anything with a wire trailing from its rear end that makes...