Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clifford Glover, 10, was shot and killed by officer Thomas J. Shea. While looking for two grown men who had robbed a taxi. Shea and his partner came across Glover walking with his stepfather in a section of Queens. Thinking the pair were his suspects, Shea leaped from an unmarked car. He was wearing street clothes and did not identify himself. Shea fired when the 10-year-old raised what turned out to be a plastic toy gun. The officer was acquitted in court, but an internal police tribunal expelled him from the force...
Maciej Wierzynski, 45, was one of Poland's leading television personalities, the host of Studio Two, a popular Saturday-night mix of entertainment and conversation. Now, as he drives around Warsaw in his battered 1979 Zastawa, he is the city's best-known taxi driver...
Driving a taxi is a tough and demanding job, but, he says, "my car was the only investment I had." By working seven days a week, Maciej manages to equal his previous salary of roughly 24,000 zlotys ($279) a month. Ewa still receives maternity-leave benefits, and family members in the West help as well. The price increases of the past year make it difficult to maintain their previous standard of living. But, as Ewa says, "there really isn't anything to buy anyway...
...sideways. Cheers (NBC, Thursdays, 9-9:30 p.m. E.S.T), nimble and funny, if somewhat fussy about detailing its large cast of congenial nutball characters, takes place in a Boston bar owned by an ex-baseball player. This particular piece of sitcom real estate was developed by three Taxi production veterans, Glen and Les Charles and James Burrows, and their saloon seems like a nice place to settle in, snug and warm and safe. Too safe, perhaps...
...lung disease; in Paris. Despite writing such weighty tomes as his two-volume The Secret History of the War and The Truth about Wagner, Root was savored most for gastronomic texts like The Food of France (1958). Root's cardinal rule for eating in Paris: Follow the taxi drivers...