Word: mentored
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...this, the third and final installment in the Blade series, Blade is living with his mentor (Kris Kristofferson), a maimed carpenter with dirty white curls—one might even call him a Christ figure—who continually prognosticates that Blade will be taken in by the F.B.I if he is not more careful about how he kills vampire allies. Blade, ironically, quickly falls for exactly this trap, indiscriminately killing a Vampire familiar. Soon, he is public enemy number one, in a media satire segment illustrated by a surprisingly cerebral Charlie Rose-esque clip. Then the F.B.I. closes...
...classic In the Realm of the Senses has never been shown uncensored in Japan) and his discipline on the set. Oshima's perfectionism rubbed off on Sai-the cast and crew of Blood and Bones took to calling him "mini-Shunpei" for his dictatorial tendencies. Sai also shares his mentor's taste for the seedier corners of society. "I'll leave the stories about honorable lives and upstanding families to other directors," he says. "I'm more interested in people who lack those good qualities...
...tutor on foreign affairs when he was still Governor of Texas. But once she became his National Security Adviser, "her primary job was to understand the President and understand how he wanted to be served," says former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, Rice's previous boss and mentor. "And she did that brilliantly." Now that Bush has nominated her to be his Secretary of State, the question is where she stands on the foreign policy fights of the day. Despite four years as one of the Administration's most vocal advocates on this front, Rice has shown few fixed ideological...
Hers may be the only overt influence on his work. It's hard to hear echoes of anyone else in his playing. "There are a lot of pianists in his background--Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell, George Shearing," says pianist Dick Hyman, a family friend and mentor. "Perhaps Bill's greatest talent is that he's been able to put all these things together and make something personal and special out of them...
...message to his teammates is the same message of his mentor: When you hit someone...