Word: mentored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After listening to speaker after speaker deliver withering denunciations of his performance as head of the Moscow Communist Party, starting with a personal attack by his mentor Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin was clearly stunned. "At this plenum I have heard many things, things such as I had never heard in my entire life," he said when it was his turn to speak. But Yeltsin knew better than to quarrel; instead he responded with a rambling self- criticism that echoed nothing so much as the Stalin-era show trials of the 1930s. "One of my most characteristic personal traits, ambition...
EVERYONE'S favorite character has to be Rupert Cadell (Laith Zawawi), the cynical intellectual who has been a mentor to Brandon since childhood, and who immediately suspects the cruel joke behind the dinner party. Zawawi plays Rupert as a hunched, scowling cripple with knitted brows, a vaguely Rumanian accent and an acerbic tongue. At times light-heartedly teasing, at others blazing with intensity, Zawawi holds the entire production together...
Which brings us to Eisenstadt herself, a Rockaway refugee who befriended Ellis while both were in writing workshops at Bennington. The pair have appeared on the Today show together, share a mentor (author Joe McGinnis) and both have set their novels in the imaginary campus of Camden (read: Bennington). But Eisenstadt resents the unavoidable comparisons between their work. "It's annoying because I don't think it's fair to either of the books, although I do like the guy a lot," she says of Ellis, while sitting and sipping water in her publisher's New York office, "We both...
...where he earned two master's degrees and a doctorate in political economy and government. Returning in 1978 to Mexico City, where he now lives with his wife and three children, Salinas worked for De la Madrid, then Minister of Budget and Planning, and assumed that post when his mentor became President...
Cliches, in fact, fly faster in this film than a room full of leaping ballerinas. Nadine, for example, expresses her hatred of men by exclaiming ever-so-subtly, "I don't trust any man," and reminding her infant child, "All men are sluts, you remember that." Patrick, Tony's mentor and best friend, tells him, "You have no passion. You seem empty." And feminists be forewarned--when Lisa comes back with her tattoo she absolves Tony of any sexual guilt or responsibility by explaining to him, "It was great. You made me feel very special...