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Seven years ago, on his 41st birthday, Philip Glass was driving a New York City taxicab. From the age of 17 he had worked as a hotel night clerk, an airport baggage loader, a crane operator in a steel mill, a furniture mover and a plumber, all the while pursuing his real vocation: composer. Glass, however, was not hoping to make a big score with a pop song or a Broadway show. Rather, he was that least salable commodity, a revolutionary avant- gardist...
...Yogi will be the manager this year," he promised in the spring. "A bad start will not affect Yogi's status." Looking as he has always looked, like a taxicab with the doors open, Berra took his leave after 16 games with an old Yankee grace. He has never been able to sustain a grudge against baseball. In 1975, when Berra was discharged as manager of the New York Mets, he spoke of needing to distance himself from the game. "I'm going to take my family on a trip," he said, "and get as far away from baseball...
...irritating and trivial, but if one takes it on its own blithe terms it is highly enjoyable. Vreeland has the blunt realism of an old survivor (she is somewhere in her 80s), and the eye that made her career has not dimmed. The best colors? The yellow of a taxicab, the blue of the sky on Kennedy's Inauguration Day, the pink of a Provence carnation. Her hero is her husband of 46 years, whom she refers to almost solely in terms of his exquisite clothes-felt hats as smooth as satin, overcoats that Garbo loved. Helena Rubinstein...
Last month, the city council authorized the appointment of an independent investigator to look into "all charges relating to the operation, ownership, and governance of the taxicab industry in Cambridge," according to the council recommendations...
...companies first proposed the sale in February, and the transfer has been estimated to involve at least $1.2 million until an independent investigator can look into "all charges relating to the operation, ownership, and governance of the taxicab industry in Cambridge," according to the council recommendation...