Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just annoyance: not a single taxi at Kansas City International Airport on Christmas Eve; 75 inmates at the Michigan State Prison in Jackson refusing to leave the mess hall because of cold cells. Yet as families huddled for the holidays, there were also moments of wonder. Jim Johnson, an undertaker in Parshall, N. Dak., was stunned one morning to see his thermometer reading - 56°. "I got the kids up to look at it, because they may never see anything like it again...
More satisfying moments are the unimportant ones where Manchester's presence or feelings are irrelevant--little bits of information, like the fact that Kennedy borrowed taxi-fare from everyone and anyone during his early campaigns, or that he enjoyed (and warped) his books most when reading them in the bathtub. More politically controversial subjects, on the other hand, seem out of place here; Manchester brushes over them in his desire to blame no one. Yes, Kennedy sent troops into the Bay of Pigs, but military advisors had misled him; and he sent more to Vietnam, but planned to recall them...
...American small towns is that this town is located in the heart of Lower Manhattan. Its character derives from its location. In a sense, the neighborhood serves as a pocket of resistance in the city, a sudden green rectangle cut out of the gray slabs, and away from the taxi horns. Yet the park needs the city, too, the way everyone needs strife to feel alive. When Christmas is celebrated here, life is celebrated, the life of a civilization huddled against itself. Nothing is really special about the people of Gramercy Park, other than that they chose Gramercy Park...
...movie that its own maker defines largely by negatives. "It was rarely 'Wouldn't it be great to do that?', but more often 'Better not do this,' " says Director James L. Brooks, who shared creative credit for both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Taxi on television and who spent four years adapting Larry McMurtry's novel to the screen. How, indeed, are they going to handle the writer-director's entirely accurate description of the way his film works: "There is never a moment in the picture that takes...
...coach carries on like a sensitive drill sergeant, psyching his team into a football frenzy by using curses, inspirational locker-room speeches and the odd face-mask violation. Michael Chapman, who graduated to the director's chair with this film after making his name as the cinematographer of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Personal Best, brings a virginal intensity to each hoary plot device. He hardly gives his audience time to realize that the football team is only an updated platoon from a 1940s war movie (the Irishman with his well-fingered rosary, the Italian with his letch...