Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also now confers they were not immune to Murphy's Law in coordinating their 1000 guests each year. Judith Neal, who was Anderson's assistant for 10 years, recalls the regular mistakes and embarassments which inevitably came with the job: flags flown upside-down, wallets stolen in Widener, $45 taxi rides, missed appointments, and three or four sicknesses each year--including one ambassador who had a heart attack. But Neal is quick to point out Bill Anderson's "unflappable" manner which kept the receiving line moving...
Bork and D. Elia who published their story in last Friday's issue of the Yale Free Press, made no prior arrangements for contacting the insurgents, but instead said they asked a taxi driver in Peshawar to take them to the headquarters of the guerrillas...
...author underscores what all this means to lowly screenwriters: "Stars will not play weak and they will not play blemished, and you better know that now." Exceptions to this rule? Goldman raises some only to demolish them: "Of course De Niro will play a psychopath in Taxi Driver. Some psychopath - he risks his life trying to save the virtue of your everyday ordinary-looking child prostitute, Jodie Foster...
...melodramatic, yet her dark night is full of the sort of detail that Didion knows how to use so well: the beach towels at the San Salvador super market that are printed with maps of Manhattan that pinpoint Bloomingdale's; the local woman who gets out of a taxi in a provincial town and leaves behind the scent of Arpege; the dubbed television version of The Winning Team, starring Doris Day and Ronald Reagan, in which the now U.S. President exclaims in accented English, "Play ball!" The 1952 movie is about the pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, and the game...
Gasoline retailers and representatives of taxi companies said last week that the tax increase would have little effect on them, because it just slightly offsets a much larger drop in the wholesale price of gasoline...