Word: cab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just past 1 o'clock on a Thursday morning, and the towering dominoes of Manhattan are falling past her as Mrs. Rosado's cab speeds from the northern tip of the slab all the way down to Columbus Circle. At 2 o'clock, bundled against winter, complete to her L.A. Gear sneakers, she will board a van for a five-hour ride to visit John in the Elmira Correctional Facility. Door to door, counting the visiting period and pit stops, the round-trip ordeal will take between 18 and 20 hours. Along the way, Mrs. Rosado, a diabetic, will inject...
Before embarking on his acclaimed cycle of plays on black life in the 20th century (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson), Wilson penned this early work about the denizens of a gypsy-cab company in Pittsburgh, Pa., in the late 1970s. Now, given a "definitive" rewrite by the author, it has been revived in a superlative production at the Center Stage, in Baltimore, Md. With little obvious effort, Wilson rivets our attention on the daily struggles of a half-dozen ordinary but entirely individual characters while gradually homing in on the explosive conflict between two: the cab company...
...sounds in the city. What about when a pneumatic bus door opens? It always sounds to me like such a grateful gasp or sigh. "PSSTSSSTAAAAAAAAHHHH...some people are getting off." But I don't like being growled at about my belongings when I get in or out of a cab...
Tuesday, Feb. 10 From Tom To: Meg Don't get me started on this Cab recording thing. What about the cab driver? I am an adult. If I choose not to buckle my seat belt it's my own fault. If I forget my backpack or wallet I am a stupid cluck who deserves to lose them. But that poor fellow or gal who is trying to make a living by driving the same few square miles of Manhattan all day long, that person has to hear that thing a thousand times...
...stopping at corners where tenants are in a struggle resisting rent increases and eviction, and basically fighting to keep their homes," said Bill Cavellini, the 55-year-old Cambridge Cab Driver of the Year. Like the majority of event coordinators, Cavellini is a volunteer with...