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...roads, the passenger could be forgiven for thinking himself a born luger and wondering which new Olympic events he could enter: free-style cursing, perhaps, or uphill climbing, or cheap skating (since a pair of tacos at the top of the mountains would set him back $16). When striking taxi drivers blocked the area's only highway for 10 hours one day, visitors had even more time to ponder the fact that a bob-sled here could travel 40 times faster than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1992 Winter Olympics: At The Starting Gate | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

...band unexpectedly demanded towels, cigarettes, potato chips, fruit baskets, blank tape cassettes, batteries, dinner and taxi-fare, according to Logan...

Author: By Mark W. Brown, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spin Doctors Concert Lost Money | 2/15/1992 | See Source »

...said St. Clair triumphantly, as Claflinwheeled in a dressmaker's dummy sporting apink-purple polyester suit and a floppy white hatof Taxi Driver vintage. "From 1975, it'sMiss Jodie Foster," he said...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jodie Foster Takes Home Pudding Pot | 2/12/1992 | See Source »

...Academy Award for best actress for her role as a rape victim in "The Accused." Among her numerous other screen credits is the Martin Scorcese film "Taxi Driver...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Douglas, Foster Are Hasty Pudding Picks | 1/29/1992 | See Source »

Sweeney, in her early 60s, is not well enough to take care of her grandsons. She waited for more than two years for the social-services department to rescue them from their mother's destructive grasp. "I was sending food to them by taxi at their mother's house," she tells Legal Aid Bureau lawyer Lisa Watts as they sit in the stuffy waiting room. "They were abused and hungry. They turned into children of the streets." Despite the grandmother's frequent requests, the children were not removed from the home. "((My daughter)) was selling furniture out of the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corridors Of Agony | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

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