Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great deal of help. Miller's face is gouged by deep melancholy, but his hands wave about with abandon. He will begin to describe an elaborate ges ture, then pull his hand in close to his body. The effect is that of a man who has hailed a cab and then decided to walk home...
...police officers," said Patrolman Frank Bugdin sharply. "Come out with your hands up." Then Bugdin pulled the right rear door of the taxi open. A single bullet ripped through his chest near his heart. Before he died, Bugdin emptied his gun into the cab. So did his partner. When the Shootout was over, Bugdin's killer, who was a city housing policeman, also lay dying. The fight had no known motive, though the housing patrolman had been out on the town drinking. To shocked New Yorkers, last week's deaths were the latest in an unparalleled month...
...value of an education with the driver. His eight years of Northeastern night school had gotten him nothing more than a piece of paper, he said; had he used his money to purchase a taxi medallion, he could have been a wealthy man, or at least driving his own cab...
Leaving Santiago in early April 1972, I caught a taxi to the bus station. Jack Anderson's disclosures concerning ITT were still big news. The cab driver decided I was an American and proceeded to tell me that the U.S. and ITT were making "a big mistake" in Chile. In a pained voice he said, "What I don't understand is how a country that loves democracy like the United States could try to use the CIA to stop democracy in Chile. Salvador Allende is the president of the Chilean people, we elected him. I respect the people of America...
...tumbling the pillars of organized religion, exposing homosexuality in prison, discussing Lesbianism, and depicting small towns as hopelessly dull (there's nothing to do but visit Woolworth's and the cannon; you get in a cab and the driver turns around and asks you if you know where he can get laid), Lenny was labelled "sicknik" by Time magazine. He had won a cult of followers, but his appeal was by no means universal. And then came the arrests...