Word: cab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dartlett then left the bank, located at 104 Mt. Auburn St., with an undetermined amount of money, fleeing the scene in a Checker Cab taxi...
...marine, Bickle has found himself stricken with insomnia, and, in the movie's opening scene, decides to undertake driving the moonlight shift on a taxi cab simply as a way of filling up the time. Increasingly fed up with the sordid people he encounters in his midnight runs--prostitutes, pimps, pushers and various basket cases--he begins a strict physical and mental regimen in pursuit of some goal at which we can only guess. After an innocent attempt to woo a senator's aide (Cybill Shepherd) and to rescue a teenage prostitute (Jodie Foster) from the streets, Travis resorts...
...scene, Travis's cab emerges on to the screen from a Dantean burst of steam like a metallic beast as Bernard Herrman's eerie score beats to a crescendo. A close-up of Travis's wide-open eyes reflects the gaudy neon lights of 42nd Street porn shops, as he absorbs the world about him for a fare. At times, his passivity seems to reappear in his actions. Travis sees the "pow-pow" finger motion of a fellow cabbie and imitates it later--in a drastically different context, perhaps suggesting how Travis is shaped by the world around...
...price tag in the mid-$30,000 range. (Will it have the effortless, raunchy, bad-attitude rumble of this writer's black-with-red pinstripes 1985 Ford F-250 plow truck, noble on its big wheels, with two gas tanks, chrome air horns, jaunty rust spots and revolving yellow cab light...
...recollecting his penniless student days in New Orleans in the '50s and how one evening at a jazz club, a musician befriended him and bought him dinner. I think it makes a nice historical footnote that one night at Galatoire's, the future President of France dined with Cab Calloway...