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...Whatever happened to Joe Pepitone? When a heckler shouted this at President Carter during a rally outside Chicago's Wrigley Field, media expert Jerry Rafshoon ended Carter's speech and rushed him away by taxi. The truth is that Pepitone, a Commoner supporter, lives in San Francisco's Haight-Asbury section as a hairdresser for retired secret service agents...
...Carole Johnson, 32, married and the mother of two, who supplements her family income by driving a taxi in Boston, the prime concern of the election season is not the fine points of energy policy, or even the wisdom of John Anderson's call for a 50?-per-gal. gasoline tax, but how to pay this winter's heating-oil bill. Meanwhile, Roger Christensen, an Ogden, Iowa, hog farmer, finds wild gyrations in interest rates to be his trouble. He finances poultry, pork and corn production with variable interest rate bank loans, and consequently no longer knows what...
...people could be, and their problems are ordinary. They are, as I said, depressed, which seems to be the most ordinary thing in the world. After all, who isn't? Some might argue that this is the problem with the movie--ordinary problems suggest little intrinsic interest. By contrast, Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle is, to all appearances, ordinary--a cabbie who falls in love with a campaign worker--but he is intrinsically interesting because he is psychotic, and of dark aspect, and when the camera rolls the heads start to roll, too. Still, watching newsreels of Arthur Bremer would...
...journey began with a brief ferry trip across the Shatt waterway, then a hired taxi to Khorramshahr. Crossing a flat, dusty plain, laden with mud-camouflaged military vehicles, our party reached the Iraq-Iran border post of Shalamche. There, eight miles from Khorramshahr, dozens of 130mm artillery guns were hunkered down in a vast arc, pelting the Iranian-held port with booming shells...
...routine between neighbors. It's a way of looking at organized crime that we've seen before, and Cassavetes still pulls it off, which is a neat little trick. Still, most of the finer things Cassavettes tries to achieve have already been done better, in Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver and Peter Bogdanovich's unacknowledged masterpiece, Saint Jack...