Word: mentored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Passe, who is married to actor Paul Le Mat (American Graffiti, Melvin and Howard), has had an occasionally stormy working relationship with Gordy. She describes him, only partly in jest, as a special kind of mentor, "a tormentor." Yet Gordy has given de Passe the freedom to run the company as she sees fit. Says Gordy: "If somebody had asked me a year ago, I would never have guessed we were going to do a western." Now that de Passe has reached near the top of Hollywood's mostly white, mostly male elite, she maintains that...
...ration of acorns. He spread them out on the veranda beyond his window and watched the scramble. His staff found a squirrel-size sign that read BEWARE OF DOGS and placed it along the squirrel path. When President-elect Bush came around for his final minutes with his old mentor and boss, Reagan pointed out the sign, mindful that the Bushes will move in with a pregnant English springer spaniel named Millie and before long the grounds will swarm with puppies. "I'll keep the sign right there," promised Bush...
...years of British colonial rule, they were determined to use the precepts of socialist orthodoxy to yank a remote Arab nation into the 20th century. The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, or simply South Yemen, set up a Moscow- style government and forged close ties with its mentor...
...teenager, served in the U.S. Army and earned engineering degrees from M.I.T. and Caltech. He emigrated to Jerusalem shortly before Israel became a state, and during the war for independence served in the armed Jewish underground movement headed by Menachem Begin, who became the young American's mentor. After engineering careers in academia and industry, the bookish and brainy Arens entered politics in 1974, and was elected to the Knesset as a candidate of Begin's Likud...
...took three college courses plus special training for mid-career clergy recruits). Though Harris was a prison chaplain for four years and worked part time at two churches, she has never been the full-time rector of her own parish. "No one made Barbara Harris," says her Philadelphia mentor, the Rev. Paul Washington. "She made herself...