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Grove is not all work: he skis, bikes with his wife Eva, listens to opera. He occasionally breaks out into a wild, disjointed boogie (his kids call it groving instead of grooving and recall the time Eva snapped her ankle on their shag carpet as the two danced to the sound track of Hair). The dance step is typical: Grove is a passionate, if disjointed man. He is a famously tough manager who, late at night, can still fill Intel's offices with a rolling laugh. He is a man who lost most of his hearing when he was young...
...Gabbeh Tough heroes, winsome kids, things that blow up in the night--can there be another way to make movies? Yes, in this lyrical fable of a woman who literally lives in the weave of a carpet while she awaits her lost love. Iran's Mohsen Makhmalbaf is a weaver too, of sweet dreams, vivid colors and magical filmmaking...
...improvements, however, would make the new Coop more friendly to the student population. First, the store needs more comfortable seating. Book superstores around the country provide shoppers soft chairs and couches and ample space to sprawl on the carpet, bridging the gap between bookstore and living room-a fact the Coop seemingly ignored in the redesign. The new store is cool and spatially tight, and is dotted not with couches but with the stiff, wooden Harvard chairs found in some classrooms and dorm rooms, hardly inviting us to sit and stay awhile...
...places where Martha Stewarts manque can slow down long enough to create the gilded topiaries they've dreamed about for years. In Wilmington, the emigres include a Boston doctor, a California silicon-chip engineer, a pharmaceutical-research scientist, a cop, a prosecutor, an artist looking for solitude and a carpet installer from suburban Dayton who chucked his job for one selling fertilizer in town...
Mick Spence's marvelous set is thoroughly grounded in the modern world. A tattered carpet and ratty furniture, well-worn books and food wrapped in aluminum foil surround the actors and evoke a well-kept but obviously lived-in living room. The center of the home and scene of most action, the living room, is like its inhabitants: a little worn, a little sad. The crucial placement of the television sets, necessary for Enda's frequent videotaped posthumous speeches, is well-conceived. The family TV set faces the actors; unobtrusive monitors above either side of the stage broadcast Enda...