Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be difficult to turn a story about a boy and his pet hawk into a movie that was anything other than clean. But when Baker's Hawk began running last week at 350 U.S. moviehouses, it was evident that cab driver-turned-movie mogul Lyman Dayton had taken no chances. Hawk contains no sex, no profanity beyond "damn" and "hell," no bloodshed and only a suggestion of lawlessness (a band of vigilantes reacts to a crime wave that the audience never sees). Burl Ives, who teaches the boy (Lee Montgomery) how to train his bird, helps the movie...
This route parallels the construction as far as the Palmer Dixon tennis courts, at which point you take two sharp lefts and hopefully find yourself at the left front door entrance to the rink. If not, then hail a cab...
...tries to talk revolutionary politics to the befuddlement of most of the black employees and to the great contempt of the one among them who is politically committed. A few incidents occur to liven things up as the cars roll through the soap and spray: a hooker stiffs a cab driver for his fare and hides out in the ladies' room; a black evangelist (Richard Pryor) and his entourage splashily tool up to get a bird dropping removed from his customized limo; one of the polishers wins a prize on a radio contest and gets a date with...
...writer is most successful in his evocation of an emotional landscape. A young Israeli cab driver tells him of a recent visit to a coffee shop with a friend whom he left for a second to chat with someone else: " '... just then the bomb went off and my friend was still there. So now my friend is dead,' said the cabby. His voice, still adolescent, was cracking. 'And this is how we live, mister! O.K.? We live this...
...sense of humor of his own. To labor audiences, Mondale says: "A working person who would vote Republican is like a chicken who would vote for Colonel Sanders." After Ford made his blunder about Eastern Europe, Mondale had a story for the occasion. "When I was in Poland, a cab driver explained to me how the system worked. 'We have a fifty-fifty deal with the Russians: we send them coal and they send us snow...