Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have experienced unfulfilled maternity once," she says, "but it is not my story." Though the book is stridently feminist, the Italian version is a bestseller among both sexes. Skeptical as ever, Fallaci conceded that her book was a hit "only when I saw it in the hands of taxi drivers...
...star Talia Shire, sister of Francis Ford Coppola: "Francis was an innocent when he first succeeded and so is Sly." Innocent or not, Stallone is probably onto the right screen image at the right time. Boggled by grim, paranoid plots like Marathon Man and savage heroes like the Taxi Driver, audiences may be ready to buy his gentler, uncomplicated machismo. Stallone is sure of it. At a private screening of Rocky for his mother last week he leaped on-stage during the first reel and shouted, "Hey, Ma, I made it. I made it, Ma." Ma nodded and wiped away...
...first clue to the identity of the airline bombers came from a taxi driver in Trinidad who overheard two Spanish-speaking passengers discussing the Cubana "accident" shortly after the crash. Port of Spain police found that the pair had checked in-without luggage-at the downtown Holiday Inn. The two men, Freddie Lugo and Hernán Ricardo Losano, were traveling on Venezuelan passports; they had been on the arriving-passenger list of the ill-fated airliner in Barbados earlier in the day, but then flew back to Trinidad. After deplaning, investigators found, the pair placed a call to Orlando...
...limousine and make it to the NBC studios in time to have her hair done for the Today show. One day last week she slept until 7, had breakfast with her daughter Jacqueline, 8, washed her hair in the kitchen sink of her midtown Manhattan apartment and took a taxi to work. That day there was something else new in her routine. Four months and uncounted fan-magazine headlines after she left Today, Walters faced the television public for the first time in her new $1 million-a-year job on the ABC Evening News. Reported the rookie anchor woman...
...balance into a garden chair--without stooping to too much cynicism. But also without touching us very deeply, because Veronique never does act her real age, never even suggests that her pre-mature coolness is really a hold-out against advancing adolescent self-consciousness (a la Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, for instance, or McKenzie Phillips in American Graffiti...