Word: taxied
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gang" faces separation, the one threat to its survival, the film becomes uncomfortably uneven. With all the tackiness represented by the taxi cab Yellow Mercedes, Santa Barbara suburbanites Gladys and Warren Fitzpatrick (Karen Black and Martin Mull) come to buy a child from the Sacred Heart. "We tried a dog." Exuding the charm of a used car salesman and the taste of John Rivers, Sister Serena markets her "kids" like a Romco television ad. "How about a conversation piece?" she asks, singling out her single Black charge. "Something South of the Border?" Our caricatured Ozzie and Harriet demur. "We already...
...instance, a Florida couple named John and Doris Del Zio in 1973 became the first couple in the U.S. to attempt IVF. An infertility specialist removed an egg from Mrs. Del Zio, put it in a container and handed it to her husband, who raced across town in a taxi to deliver it to the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. There, another doctor fertilized it with some of Del Zio's sperm and stored it in an incubator. The next day the hospital doctor was furiously scolded by his superior, Dr. Raymond Vande Wiele, who not only accused...
...story Bronx home and woke his sleeping wife, "You're never going to believe this. I think we're millionaires." She did not believe it either. But 5, 38, 42, 18, 17, 1-a combination Pagano put together by chance, using a phone number on a passing taxi-won him a $20 million jackpot, the largest lottery prize ever paid to a single individual. A retired carpenter, the newest emblem of fortune's fancy insists that his 21 yearly checks for $761,904 (after some taxes are withheld) will not change his lifestyle. "I got my house...
...Prince--alias the Kid, a Milwaukee post-adolescent with a decidedly un-Midwestern penchant for the badder things in life. Supposedly modeled after the friends' garage where the young Prince carried on his musical and sexual experiments, the Kid's room looks like Jodie Foster's den in Taxi Driver...
...indecipherable while about--it seems--patrimony, while "Endlessly Jealous" is yet another boring exposition of his marital squabbling. Meanwhile, 'Doin' the Things That We Want To" is a simplistic (albeit catchy) tribute to Sam Shephard and Martin Scorcese (but does Reed truly admire Travis Bickle, the tormented psychopath of Taxi Driver, for doing the things he wants...