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...venues, including the Harvard Film Archive and the Kendall Square Cinema, are featuring over 40 films and shorts, many of which have never been shown in the U.S. Dealing with a variety of topics ranging from the so-called “Iron Wall” to driving a cab in Los Angeles, the festival runs for nine days has surprised even its organizers with its popularity. According to Nitin Sawhney, a member of the festival’s organizing committee, one of the greatest difficulties faced was convincing the MFA to “take this risk?...
...jobs included hawking jewelry and driving a cab. In 1987, in the rare-book room of the New York Public Library, history buff Philip Masters discovered a 1719 book about a pirate's trial in 1718--the year the storied Queen Anne's Revenge was lost near North Carolina. Masters connected the dots, finding a reference that made him think he could locate where the Blackbeard-hijacked ship had sunk. Masters contacted experts and secured permits, and in 1996 divers unearthed an unusually complete wreck widely believed to be the Revenge. Masters was 70 and had cancer...
...Though you almost had to give up some of that to a San Francisco cab driver, right...
...into the cab at the San Francisco airport to go to the hotel at Fisherman's Wharf. I looked at the meter, and it was $25 after five minutes. We were like, "What? That's ridiculous." So it gets up to $65, and we're passing the stadium, oddly enough. We're just running our mouths, like "We have tickets to the game. If we catch the ball, we're going to come into some money. What if we don't pay for this cab fare right now, but if I catch the ball, I'll give...
...driving horse before I realized that city kids have road smarts of their own. Few natives would pull the kind of moves I have in New York this summer, such as taking the subway deep into Brooklyn instead of uptown by myself at two a.m., or accidentally tipping a cab driver 200 percent because I forked over the wrong bill...