Word: drivered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There has never before been a sitcom written with the dramatic depth of this one. Other shows may have serious (usually mawkish) scenes or deal with topical issues; Taxi is about serious people. Though the drivers are in some ways conventional TV characters, they are also lost souls, losers set back by life's rude shocks. They dream hungrily of finer things-of love or loftier careers-and when their dreams collapse, they turn to one another for support. In the opening episode, a surprisingly melancholy sitcom premiere, one driver (Judd Hirsch) takes off for Florida to attempt...
...acting is very good, especially by Jeff Conaway as a goodhearted, struggling actor-cabbie and Marilu Henner as the one female driver of the bunch. In more standard comic turns, Saturday Night Live Regular Andy Kaufman brings a saving sweetness to the garage mechanic, who speaks his own variety of fractured English. Danny De Vito barks his way through the role of the dispatcher with a Runyonesque brio. Like the other outstanding show of the new season, WKRP in Cincinnati, Taxi is the handiwork of Mary Tyler Moore alumni. Why doesn't someone give these people a network...
...Sandown raceway in Melbourne was packed with 61,500 people, there to see the car that had been flown in from Stuttgart and the driver from Argentina. "It's like meeting an old friend," said Juan Fangio, 67, five-time world racing champion, as he clambered into the cockpit of the Mercedes-Benz "Silver Arrow" that he had driven to victory in world title races in 1954 and 1955. "But," he added, "please do not think I am going to do the same things I did many years ago. This car has been in a museum and soon...
...bolted and locked their doors, and sat or slept quietly within. I wandered the dark halls, accidentally meeting the hotel guest carrying the revolver, who told horror stories about hotels and blackouts and police strikes and brazen robberies. While I listened I wondered about Elvis--whether the truck driver-turned-rock 'n roll star could ever have broken big with his raw, exuberant, straightforward style if he were young in the larcenous and jaded...
...balcony of her room, Janey Cray, the grandmother, the truck driver, the die-hard Elvis fan, looked out over the vast, dark expanse of Memphis. Then she mixed another drink, and settled back into her chair...