Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revelation and finds instead a new, unrelated chapter, one can cringe and say "Aha. He's trying to build suspense--cheap trick." The simple reason Mayer used moth-eaten tactics is that he can use them successfully. Besides, everything else is parodied in this book. Bella Abzug drives a taxi, Bill Buckley is a Tombs prison guard and Holden Caulfield is a proctologist. Maybe, just maybe, the good guy gets squashed...
...catalytic converter and the recently abandoned rotary engine, and supported development of the air-bag safety system. His motto at the corporation was "Kick the hell out of the status quo." Cole retired from GM in 1974 and had taken over Checker Motors, intending to produce a more efficient taxi. "Once you have it in your blood," he often said, "you're always looking for solutions to problems...
...said he decided to fulfill his pre-med requirements because medical school presents more of a guarantee that he "will not be driving a taxi cab after investing $7000 a year in a college education...
...that delivers so much in so many varied areas, Welcome somewhat disappoints with its acting. No single performance truly dominates the story, nor is Welcome studded with especially accomplished supporting performances. Keitel has added yet another polished evocation of a character to an ever-lengthening string of impressive roles (Taxi Driver, Mean Streets). However, his character, the go-getting executive Ken Hood, is simply not central enough to the narrative to eclipse the other less inspired performances. Sissy Spacek's considerable talents are wasted in the peripheral role of a live-in housekeeper who keeps Carradine's apartment tidied...
Lancelot is a phenomenon comparable to Travis Bickel (Taxi Driver) as an ex-Southern gentleman. Like Travis Bickel, Lancelot takes the matter of moral response and retribution into his own hands. For them violence is the only way to take a moral stand or to make anyone pay attention...