Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harry Chapin's "Taxi" blares from the overheadspeakers as one of the locals in the corner loudlydiscusses his upcoming vasectomy operation, onlytwo short days away. This time, Mike shoots hismouth off about Iraq, Monica Lewinsky, the Bruins'incompetence, and other topics to anyone who willlisten. Nearly every pool table is full. At oneside of the room, a bearded man in his early 30smoves slowly in a circle, practicing a cut shotfrom every diamond on the table. Two Latinopatrons in work-stained t-shirts speak softly inSpanish and slam home stripes and solids inongoing games of eight-ball. Next to them...
...last year's festival. Later, on a French TV talk show, De Niro changed his tune, saying he would indeed return to France this fall for an exhibition of his late father's paintings. The actor has been a star in that country since 1976, when his film "Taxi Driver" won honors at Cannes...
...kinks showed up: the Olympic torch kept flickering out, and the first "suspicious package" swooped down on by security forces turned out to be full of toilet-seat warmers. But the point of the Olympics is to make embarrassment irrelevant. "Clinton has a chotto scandaru [little scandal]," a taxi driver chuckled last week. "It's a pity. No one will be thinking of our Olympics." As the Games began, the athletes were proving him--triumphantly--wrong...
Kaplan recalls strolling down to the Eliot House common room to watch Yo-Yo Ma '76 perform, and great films like The Godfather and Taxi Driver showing in the Square...
...torture. Police are suspected of heading a kidnapping boom that has grown into a billion-dollar ransom industry. Americans are by no means exempt. On Dec. 15, Peter John Zarate, 40, a real estate executive and father of four living in Mexico City, was shot and killed by taxi pirates in the posh Polanco neighborhood. Just days before, another U.S. businessman was savagely beaten after stepping into a taxi outside the Sheraton Hotel, next door to the U.S. embassy. A week earlier the U.S. manager of an Acapulco hotel was kidnapped by men wearing police uniforms...