Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert M. Godinho, a driver for the K.S. taxi service, said yesterday construction in the Square has cut his daily fares in half...
Construction officials set up temporary taxi stands in several different locations, but when the drivers objected, they finally settled on a 15-cab stand outside Lehman Hall on Mass...
Juri R. Prince, a taxi driver for Ambassador Brattle Cabs, echoed Godinho's feelings, saying the finished product may not be worth the trouble...
...proof can be found in this series about a staid Wall Street law firm; it is the latest triumph from James L. Brooks, Stan Daniels and Ed Weinberger, veterans of Taxi and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In the new show, these writers have again loaded a simple sitcom premise with a wide variety of well-drawn (and exceptionally well cast) characters, sophisticated jokes and astute social observations. The first episode, which may be a classic of its kind, also manages to work in unforced slapstick gags, a touch of pathos and a double-whammy final punch line...
...kids include one fat social retard, one bookish wimp and one wealthy, lock-jawed Wasp. For added measure the writers have stirred in a cook who re-enacts John Belushi's samurai routine and a maitre d' who resembles Danny De Vito's dispatcher from Taxi. Everyone yells a lot, usually about food and sex. Adults who sample this show may quickly tune it out to seek some food or sex of their...