Word: taxicab
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With its ungainly boxy shape the Checker taxicab has long been a distinctive part of the U.S. urban streetscape. Riders in New York, Aspen, Chicago and dozens of other cities stretched out their legs in limousine-like comfort. They could even offer a lift to friends on the tiny folding jump seats in the roomy passenger compartment...
...decay. His opening shot frames a refuse bin piled over with garbage, before widening to the dingy vision late afternoon sunlight casts on a New York City street. The closing credits play in front of a strip of posh boutiques caught by a camera moving along with the nighttime taxicab. Like a painter shadowing still-life with the dim light of a candle, Malle offers these tableaux to mark the disjunction between this reality of day and night, sights and sounds, and the restaurant where Wally goes to find Andre...
...play set in a union hall, "Lefty" dramatizes the taxicab strike that plagued New York in the spring of 1934. Lefty is the union leader, for whom the drivers are waiting before they take a vote on whether to strike. In a series of flashbacks, several of the men detail their reasons for voting to strike. One of the heavy-handed scenes has a young wife telling her cabbie husband that she will accept the advances of an old admirer unless he starts bringing home more money. The flashbacks continue until it is announced that Lefty has been beaten...
...escort service was never intended to be a private livery car nor a substitute taxicab. Instead, it was designed to convey students from one point to another when no other safe means of transportation is available. The fact that one has to wait 40 minutes between shuttle bus runs does not mean that the shuttle bus is an unavailable means of transportation and that the bus rider should instead call the escort car. It means that the particular student should be prepared to wait for the next bus, or time his/her departure around the bus schedule...
...November 1978 Senator David Pryor happened to share a taxicab in Washington with two men. Neither recognized the Arkansas Democrat and they began discussing their work as paid consultants to the Federal Government. The topic: How much they should bill a particular agency for their services$12,000 or $25,000? They decided that the bureau would swallow the higher fee without complaint and so, right there in the cab, they settled...