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Wearing the color of the Irish, and with pots of shamrocks on their desks, the Cambridge City Council gave the green light last night to further study of a perennial local debate over the regulation of city taxi service...
...best of the lot is Taxi Driver (Lowell House), a 1976 academy-award nominee directed by Martin Scorcese. The war in this film Vietnam, from which one Travis Bickle has just returned. Although Travis, played by Robert (fuckin') DeNiro, was not physically injured during his tour of duty, some essential mental functions are decidedly absent, as in, "lights on, nobody home." Having gotten a job as a cab driver, Travis has ample opportunity to observe the filth (animate and inanimate) that permanently infests New York City. Confronted with a grimy and desperate reality, the earnest hack prophesies: "Some...
...donning an arsenal of firearms, Travis sets off to do battle with the Big Apple and rescue a child prostitute, played by Jodie Foster. Although this film contains none of the directorial trickery of later. Scorcese classics like Raging Bull, gutsy realism and DeNiro's superb characterization make Taxi Driver an eloquent and powerful expression of an individual's rage against society...
...were given a straightforward appraisal of the problems of the Soviet economy that could have come from an American economist. Western observers often tell stories of bizarre inefficiencies, like the setting of the price of children's clothing so low that taxi drivers buy it to clean their windshields. But this story came from a high party official...
...Waite saga took a more ominous turn, when the West German daily Bild Zeitung reported that according to "Beirut security circles," the British negotiator had been shot and critically wounded while trying to escape. Later the same day, however, two Beirut taxi drivers, both of whom knew Waite by sight, said they were certain they had seen him, surrounded by a band of armed men, walking on a street in a southern Beirut suburb and waving to passersby. Still later ash-Shiraa, the Lebanese newspaper that first broke the story of the secret talks between Iran and the U.S., reported...