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Similarly, Kate & Allie's encounter with homelessness took on a difficult issue only by defanging it. After accidentally leaving her purse in a cab, Allie is faced with a six-mile walk back to her Greenwich Village home. Not easy on the feet, to be sure, but hardly a life crisis for a healthy Manhattanite on a nice fall day. Yet within minutes Allie is mournfully ogling the food in restaurant windows, panhandling for subway fare and discovering, at the end of her Odyssean trek, that she is "rich . . . compared to some of the people I saw out there today...
Seven years ago, Thrifty Rent-a-Car opened an office, renting part of the building, garage and lot from Fitz. The Cambridge Yellow Cab Co. began renting the upstairs three years ago on a temporary basis...
...poor serve lunch. Each day the sunrise set emerges from its Manhattan high-rises, takes a limo to the office and sits down to run the computer age. At the same hour, folks come in from Brooklyn or Queens to play the worker-bee roles of secretaries, cab drivers, souvlaki vendors and cops. After work they return home in underground cattle cars. The subway straps might be handcuffs...
...merely stopped his six- wheeler to stretch at about 3 a.m., when a motorist shot out his windshield; flying glass cut Miller's face. Stephen Broderson, 19, said he had made "your normal, everyday lane change" on the San Diego Freeway, when the occupants of a Datsun King Cab pickup tried to force him off the road and fired two rifle bullets into the side of his car. According to police, Edward Petterez, 21, of South Gate, simply honked at a passenger van when it cut in front of him. Result: two shots that fortunately missed...
...time when fame has the durability of a rock song and when real crime catches the eye and the heart, these eminent Victorians should be as obsolete as the hansom cab. Instead, they keep rising in stature and value. In this, the centenary year of their debut in Beeton's Christmas Annual of 1887, Holmes and Watson will receive some 5,000 letters at 221B Baker Street, even though the place now houses the Abbey National Building Society. Groups on four continents regularly meet to study the canon (56 stories and four novels), as well as some 12,000 books...