Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JERUSALEM IS, then, in a very real danger of fulfilling the prophesies of its worst critics as the fundamentalism of both Judaism and Islam is engulfing the city in an impossible atmosphere of demands and absolutes. "We will never surrender Jerusalem," my taxi driver explained. "Maybe part of the West Bank, but give them our holy city and see them burn down our quarter as they did in '48--no, surely you must be joking...
Little Man Tate isn't all French. It speaks with a distinctly American accent; it saunters where a French film might slouch. Foster has worked for some superfine American directors -- among them Martin Scorsese (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and Taxi Driver), Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused), Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs) -- and this movie indicates that she paid attention. A pool-hall montage, all slow-mo and Saturn-ringed balls and electric-blue vectors, plays like a fast tribute to Scorsese's The Color of Money...
...someone else was flipping through her movie family album. On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. shot President Reagan and subsequently professed his love for Foster -- or, really, for Iris in Taxi Driver. (The film was based in part on the diary of Arthur Bremer, the would-be assassin of Governor George Wallace.) Hinckley won the prize any deranged, unrequited lover seeks: he would be forever linked with his unknowing inamorata...
...quiet after bands of soldiers began patrolling in unmarked cars, their rifles protruding from the windows. Haitians mounted a de facto general strike even before Prime Minister Rene Preval, who is in hiding, sent out the call for one. "No one is going to work until Titid returns," a taxi driver said, using Aristide's affectionate nickname...
...constraints, has decided not to spend any money on new road signs or stationery. But the rechristening reflects a deeper transformation that optimists say has affected many of the city's 5 million residents. "On the surface, nothing has changed in the way we live," explains Sergei Fyodorov, a taxi driver. "But the people in this city have changed. The change is in our souls. We feel free at last...