Word: cabs
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Back at the Square, Lannon, Flynn and Melvin struggle to hail a cab on Bow and Arrow Streets. “Next time we do this, we’ll rent a limo,” says Lannon...
...came out. The arresting officers had planted the heroin. They had coerced Jing's confession by shocking him with electric batons and hanging him by his handcuffed wrists until "the blood poured down my arms," Jing testified during his trial. By the time of his release last January, the cab driver had spent more than a year on death row and hadn't seen his family in 518 days. He received just $4,000 in compensation for his ordeal?less than he would have earned driving his cab. Two cops who set him up have been sentenced to four...
...says, “we just became one word—Taj and Tonika.” And though she was a theater enthusiast and he was a sports junkie, Taj planned a rather theatrical birthday celebration for Tonika freshman year. He took her on a blindfolded cab ride to the Pfoho JCR, where she opened her eyes to a set dinner-table, sparkling apple cider, and a friend playing and singing a “commissioned” piece titled “Tonika.” She laughed at the memory even as she says...
...site of the Miss America pageant for over 80 years, Atlantic City is a cartoon of America: schmaltzy and faux-luxurious on the Monopoly-famed boardwalk, brittle and struggling just steps away. One cab driver rattles off a list of housing projects just inside the city; she brags that her neighbors are all police officers, “but I can still go to my mailbox in the morning smoking a blunt...
...Iranian cinema has been investigating hard truths for more than a decade; that's why it's the favorite international cinema of critics and enlightened cab drivers alike. But not always of Iranian censors. Abolfazl Jalili, director of the wonderful coming-of-age drama Abjad, was told he could not leave his country to attend the Venice and Toronto festivals. Set in the late 1970s, Abjad is about a teenager (clearly a stand-in for the director) torn between artistic ambitions and the pressures of his parents and the new Islamic Iran. Since art is personified by a pretty neighbor...