Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...back that sales were tanking, customers were evaporating and, ahem, top management had better pick a new strategy. It was a miserable way to run a company: desperately leaping into lifeboats, always at the last possible moment. One night Grove dreamed he was being chased by a pack of wild dogs. "It was a pressure cooker," he says...
...Wild and wacky Marv Blame the Victim, Part II: sportscaster Marv Albert pleaded guilty to biting a woman during sex, then told Barbara, Katie and Dave it was the woman's fault. Albert ignored the first law of celebrity: being famous allows you to do all the naughty things you ever wanted; it also makes it a lot more likely you'll get caught...
...Bible plays like wild melodrama: a father commanded to sacrifice his child, an ark in a deluge, God's son betrayed and murdered and reborn. Ideal material for Martin Scorsese, as he proved in The Last Temptation of Christ, his mean-streets-of-Jerusalem story of a tormented Jesus. By contrast, Buddhist texts are static and serene, antidramatic. And the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet is the ultimate good fellow, not a goodfella. So what can Scorsese find to make his own in KUNDUN...
Darkness. Lightning flashes. The planes of what is not at first certainly recognizable as a human face. The wild rolling eye of what might be a desperate and panicked animal. A splash of color--blood seeping from fingers clawing at the shackles...