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...strength of The Taxi is in its unceasing juxtaposition of childhood and maturity, of innocence and corruption. While engaged in as unchildlike an act as any known to man, the two characters remain children: they pack a picnic lunch when they set out for a day of incest, they climb into the back seat of a taxi and tell the driver to take them on a sightseeing tour while they consummate their passion, they tremble in fear at their parents' wrath. The entire book seems suffused with the giggles of children discovering their sexuality for the first time...
...good many years, I was in an economic situation in which Senator McGovern's "redistribute the wealth" policies would have been a blessing if not a bonanza. Now I have managed to climb slightly above his $12,000 level, but it is hard for me to believe that it is my "wealth" he wants to redistribute...
McGovern said that since starting his climb to political prominence he has often had to hold his tongue when confronted with irrational arguments or just plain rudeness. "If there is one thing I cannot tolerate, it is rudeness," he said emphatically, and described an incident that had angered him: "Well, early in the campaign a commercial flight was held for me about ten minutes. When I boarded, I went down one side and up the other apologizing to the passengers for detaining them. The last person was this old biddy. When I stopped by her, she said...
...Storm clouds hung low over London's Heathrow Airport when the "Eurocrat Special," a British European Airways Trident jet with 118 people aboard took off for Brussels. Four minutes later, the pilot, Captain Stanley Key, 51, radioed: "Up to 60," a routine message asking for permission to climb to 6,000 ft. He never made it. Suddenly, the plane plummeted to the ground and burst into pieces near a clump of trees four miles from the airport, killing everyone aboard...
...family had been gentry in the old town of Newburyport, Mass., since 1732. But his feckless father lost all his money by the time John was 14. He was forced to attend public high school, endure four years of Harvard without benefit of a club, and start his climb in the social world as a writer of magazine serials. By middle age, he was a smart, stingy, sardonic man who had perfected a mellifluous prose style and the art of making money...