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Nothing was to be simple that night. The trip to the company dorm took over two hours, by bus and taxi cab. When we finally arrived at my place of residence for the next two months, after 24 hours of solid traveling, I wanted nothing more than to go to sleep. I was therefore astonished when I entered my room. I had to restrain myself from blurting out, "Where's the bed?" I hadn't even considered the possibility that the rooms would be decorated in traditional Japanese style, with Japanese futons instead of beds. The thought that I would...
Iraqis are a proud people, but poverty has brought many of them low, poor in spirit as well as dinars. Their whole focus today is on basic survival. A government department head uses his car as a taxi after hours, while his wife takes in laundry. A young Iraqi woman fluent in four languages who once ran a hire-car firm now earns only $7 a month in a similar job. To keep going, she has had to sell so many possessions that she and her grandmother sleep on the floor and eat with their fingers from cooking utensils...
...designated stalker, psycho of choice to the age of lumpen paranoia. Since he offers his fourth version of this character in The Fan, it's obvious that he's not yet tired of the furnished rooms, Wal-Mart wardrobes and frayed synapses that marked his darkly defining work in Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy and Cape Fear. A more objective observer, however, can't help thinking this game should be called on account of deja...
...songfest--a youngster's travelogue of Manhattan--originally aired on the Learning Channel and has just been released on video. The host of the musical, which is conceived for two- to eight-year-olds, is a shabby-looking puppet named Newt who takes a young boy and girl for taxi, bus and ferry rides throughout the city...
...MAYHEM: 1,071 murders, the most ever reported, occurred at work in 1994, while 1 million physical assaults take place annually, the latest government statistics reveal. Riskiest occupation: taxi drivers. After that, sheriffs...