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...YOUNG V.S. Naipaul made many mistakes. Upon his arrival in New York City for a short stay, a taxi driver cheated him out of almost all his money--surely an understandable mistake for a naive young traveller to make. Nevertheless, Naipaul confesses to have "felt this humiliation so keenly that memory blurred it soon; and then eradicated it for many years...
...tell the agency of any special restaurants one wants to visit so that arrangements can be made. In addition, individuals or small groups can go off to restaurants on their own, although because of the language barrier it is best to have the hotel or tour guide engage a taxi and call the restaurant. Even so, reservations may not be honored unless a deposit or, at times, the full price of the meal has been paid in advance...
Such nostrums aroused little enthusiasm outside the Great Hall of the People. Many Chinese, wearied by the violent eddies and reversals that continue to mark their country's political life, profess scant interest in matters of state. "These things don't concern me," said a taxi driver in Tiananmen Square, where red banners flew in honor of the People's Congress. Concurred a septuagenarian scholar: "I really don't listen to this sort of thing any more." And a Peking intellectual added his own apolitical perspective: "My friends and I just gather together to eat and drink and make...
...such hits as Raiders of the Lost Ark and Flashdance. To run its program department, Fox raided NBC for a 29-year-old whiz kid named Garth Ancier. To create shows, it has enlisted such seasoned producers as James L. Brooks (The Mary Tyler Moore Show), Ed. Weinberger (Taxi) and Stephen J. Cannell (The A-Team...
...criticized McDavitt for proposing in a private meeting that Goldberg give ten of his medallions to the city in return for permission to dispose of the remaining 16 as he wished. "We're asking him to make a $600,000 donation to the city," he said, noting that a taxi medallion, sold singly, can cost up to $60,000 in Cambridge...