Word: taxied
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Willie and Phil--abandoned by Jeannette who has fallen in love with a Russian immigrant taxi driver--eventually get married, have children and live "very ordinary lives." This flimsy, tacked-on ending resolves nothing. What happens to Jeannette? Does she have an ordinary life? Why doesn't Mazursky answer these questions? Does he know...
...workers of Gdansk have taken possession of their own city, in defiance of everything the world knows as Communism. Bakeries, though they continued operating to keep bread on the tables, flew the flag out of solidarity. A taxi driver said that although supplies were low, people supported the strike: "Even when there is no strike, there's little in the shops. They must not let it fail...
...leader," gushed an adoring young worker. Added a Gdansk taxi driver, "He has courage. People here admire him." The authorities too soon realized that Walesa, as head of the Interfactory Strike Committee, which forced the government to the bargaining table, commanded respect. At the negotiating table, First Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski unfailingly addressed him as "the Honorable Mr. Chairman...
...goods like high-quality vodka and clothing. Those who have no dollars can only go to so-called komercyjne, or commercial shops, where some items are available at premium prices, or to state stores, where prices are stabilized but long lines and bare shelves are the rule. Gripes one taxi driver: "We now have three classes in this classless society...
...must deal with that question, along with all the other questions that feed into it, is Edward Irving Koch, 55, mayor since 1978 and, as Sydney Greenstreet said of Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon, a real character. If New York is a taxi, Ed Koch is its driver?quick-tempered, belligerent, opinionated, chatty, protective, frank and possibly nuts. He usually speeds, and sometimes he drives on the sidewalk. His enemies are "crackpots." To everyone within earshot he asks, "How'm I doing?" Two out of three of those surveyed have answered: good...