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...West Virginia's youngest Governor in history. Four years later, he ran for the Senate but was defeated-and then William C. Marland dropped from public sight. Last week he held a brief press conference in Chicago. A reporter had spotted him behind the wheel of a taxi, making $70 a week. "I simply fell apart because of my drinking," he said, explaining that he had bounced around from job to job until now he has joined Alcoholics Anonymous and is trying to make a new start. He drives for the Flash Cab Co. twelve hours a day, visits...
There are some parts of the Gershwin score--such as the unmistakable street scenes with taxi honks and running vibes riffs--which had to be interpreted as they were originally conceived. But other parts were completely reinterpreted. For example, Gershwin intended the American blues in the middle of the piece to represent nostalgia for home: in Walsh's plot it represents the Cliffie's sadness during her temporary separation from the painter. Later, the bright French can-can music becomes travelling music for the couple's holiday before she laves. By changing the implications of the music, Walsh adds fresh...
...Taxi for Tobruk is a modest French-made drama that effectively understates the points that None But the Brave garbles at the top of its Voice. The setting is North Africa, 1942. Shelled out of their halftrack vehicle, four French soldiers flee across the desert. Next day they slip up to a German patrol car and slaughter four men camped on the sand near by. The fifth, an arrogant young Afrika Korps captain (Hardy Kruger), becomes their prisoner...
...barriers between men are obliterated. In the absurdity of their situation, they discover a common humanity, a measure of individual worth. Eying a comrade, one soldier grumbles: "Doctors call his case paranoia. The army calls him a corporal." The dialogue is rough in texture, true in tone. And though Taxi arrives at its destination bearing no new arguments against the futility of war, Director Denys de la Patellière reinforces the old ones with soundness and dash...
...naturally produced only caps: they were smaller and thus cheaper and quicker to make. A factory commanded to make lamp shades made them all orange, since sticking to one color kept the assembly line uncomplicated. Tire production one year was fixed without checking the plan for motor-vehicle output. Taxi drivers were put on a bonus system based on mileage, and soon the Moscow suburbs were full of empty taxis barreling down the boulevards to fatten their bonuses...