Word: mentored
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...pages). He succeeds at a superficial level, uncovering plenty of unpalatable truths about Guinness. Sadly, Read brings us no closer to understanding the actor's art. The mask behind the masks remains in place. Guinness found his greatness in character roles. When he tried to escape what his early mentor John Gielgud tactlessly called "those funny little men you do so well" by playing Hamlet and Macbeth, he flopped. He scored as the schemers and observers on life's periphery; from the Fool to Laurence Olivier's King Lear, to an unforgettable gallery of cinematic disguises. There were the Ealing...
...within the city’s skyline. The pair are soon discovering Tokyo culture and a profundity in their friendship that is lacking in their respective marriages. Johansson perfects the prolonged sulk, while Murray delivers his best performance yet, donning the hats of weary voyager, droll companion and cynical mentor with equal comfort. There are plenty of belly laughs to be had along the way, but what remains with the viewer is the significance of the fleeting connection that these two people share. Coppola dreamily lingers on every scene, adorning each of them with the sensation of the aftermath...
...easy it is to overcommit without fully committing. In her first year, Hammond had a Best Buddy to mentor, a spirited 12-year-old girl from Martin Luther King Junior school, balanced shifts at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, and kept up intramurally the sports she’d done in high school—volleyball and soccer. “I had no idea what commitment at Harvard was like,” she confesses. “I realized I couldn’t do everything.” Eventually, Best Buddies made a decision for her: that...
...rigeur reading on South Korean college campuses. Two National Intelligence chiefs and a Unification Minister have claimed in national-assembly hearings that Song went further: that he became the 23rd-ranked official in the North Korean Communist Party, under the name Kim Chul Su. Defector Hwang Jang Yop, former mentor to current North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, wrote in a 1998 book that he instructed Song in North Korea's radical juche philosophy and that Song (as Kim Chul Su) attended the funeral of former leader Kim Il Sung in 1994. South Korea's opposition Grand National Party says...
Last year, Chopra forged an even closer relationship with Lewis, who served as the council’s faculty advisor during his deanship. Lewis was something of a mentor to Chopra, and worked unofficially with him to help guide specific projects...