Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voters of Los Angeles will make a very expensive decision at the polls this fall. Should they authorize a special new 1% sales tax to subsidize bus fares and finance a brand-new $8 billion mass-transit system? Or should they turn down the proposition and face the unpleasant prospect of eventual curbs on the use of private cars-a drastic turn-away from the freewheeling California lifestyle...
...Increase the size of the regional bus fleet from its current 2,100 to 3,300 buses...
...Maintain the present low fare of 25? for all bus trips...
...look, by comparison, like Alfred Lunt. De Funès likes to pop his eyes out, fast and wide, like two billiard balls bouncing off the side cushion. He is ever choleric, his veins on the point of rupture, like a man who has been mud-splattered by the bus he just missed...
...there is still plenty of that. Her best friend, who also lost a husband when he ran off with another woman, drags Sandy to a group-grope therapy session. It is not her thing, though in her own graceful way she learns to take risks with strangers. Riding a bus to Atlantic City during a brief stand-down from her deathwatch, she holds the hand of a grossly fat woman who has spilled out her troubles. She suspends the usual fear and suspicion when a middle-aged man keeps intercepting her in the hospital parking lot to make pathetic...