Word: carpetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...free time? How can his soul soar? Still, even with these burdens, the $40-a-week rug salesman (with a shoeshine parlor on the side) manages to realize a few grandiose immigrant dreams. With his employer, the mysterious, immensely rich Mr. Fernand Sarrafian, senior partner of the Sarrafian Brothers carpet empire, Stavros investigates new worlds, from race tracks to brownstone bacchanals...
...short for Gadget ("I was small, compact and eccentric"), but there is nothing mechanical in his development of The Anatolian. With humor and affection, as well as a bruised sense of the dark side of immigrant life, he has woven a saga as richly textured as a fine Kirman carpet. Or one of the great old Kazan films, for which The Anatolian would have made fine grist. -By Michael Demarest
...office champ"-in real dollars, Gone With the Wind is still No. 1-but even these days, a projected worldwide gross of $400 million is decent money. So why the boom in so many movies? And why now? Spielberg, the 34-year-old boy who wove the magic carpet of E. T. (as well as Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Raiders of the Lost Ark, all among the ten top grossers in movie history), sees a simple explanation: "A good film is kidnaped by its audience. And this summer the industry is giving people the movies they...
...evidence of general racism. It's the case of a very small group who make the whole neighborhood look like a racist community," says Marty Sack, director of the East End community center. "We don't want to sweep it under the carpet," says Frank Budryk, a member of the East Cambridge Planning Team "we want to confront...
...village in which the Soviets had set up a base. Tanks with huge rollers to predetonate mines were sweeping the main road through the town. Another tank was trying to move a destroyed armored personnel carrier out of the way. Some Soviet soldiers were sitting on a large carpet they had removed from an abandoned home. In the river was the wreckage of two Soviet helicopters that had been shot down earlier in the fighting. From time to time, the Soviets fired machine guns at the hillside. But they did little more than leave a slight ringing in the guerrillas...