Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might be called a sister act, except that New York theatergoers will need two tickets and a fast taxi to catch both Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave in action next month. For two weeks the British-born sisters will appear simultaneously on different stages, Lynn as the upright daughter of a veteran hooker in Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, Vanessa as the star of Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea. Might that box office competition strain family relations? "We'll get along fine, as long as we don't talk politics," says Lynn...
...TAXI DRIVER...
...doing their own thing." There are nuances here, and ironies, that Salisbury is overlooking. Not that he has stacked the deck--on the contrary, he is clearly trying to confront the most troublesome parts of his American experience: he seeks out Hunter Thompson, Tom Hayden, black people and bitter taxi drivers, all symbols of something hostile to his earnest mediocre, and it is not equal to the landscape he wants to describe...
That's part of why Brayton is a baseball player. Why isn't he out making money? (At Bristol he is paid $900 per month, the month he works--he has driven a taxi in the off-season; now he works for his father.) "This is the only thing I ever really worked hard at, the only thing I always knew wasn't going to be given to me because I went to such-and-such a school. If I make it, I'll make it on my own--if anything, my background will count against...
After the RSVP on a dinner invitation, GASPers warn putative guests: NSP -meaning, in Jacobeanese, "no stinking puffumigation." Even cab drivers lecture passengers. Says a sign in a Manhattan taxi: YOUR RIGHT TO SMOKE ENDS WHERE MY NOSE BEGINS...