Word: taxied
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...after Summers’ speech, Hopkins says she was in a taxi in New York City thinking about her reaction to the remarks when she got a call from the Globe reporter and decided to describe how she felt while listening to the speech...
Emergency responders, however, make up only part of this constellation of radio stars. My scanner tracks the chatter of taxi transmissions after a Red Sox game and the gastronomic gurgle at McDonald’s restaurants. Even the school bus fleet makes for a fine show. On the first day of school, I listened to dozens of little kids board the wrong buses and forget how to get home. Each time, the dispatchers directed the drivers to return the kids to the schools even if that delayed the next pickup by an hour. Here was a group of people genuinely...
...Comeback knows how quickly and badly this story can end. But this HBO sitcom can be self-serving and smug about those awful networks and their barbaric reality shows. When Valerie meets Kim Fields (The Facts of Life) and Marilu Henner (Taxi) playing themselves at an audition, Fields sniffs, "Who is so desperate for a comeback that they actually want cameras to follow them around all day?" Fields, we should note, once did an episode of the E! dating show Star Dates...
Some 200 yards behind them, taxi driver Emad Hasan watched as Salah and Abu Karam dragged themselves out of the burning wreckage and collapsed on the road, their clothes in tatters and both bleeding profusely from multiple wounds. As they lay moaning, a crowd of commuters gathered--but kept their distance. "Nobody dared to go near them for 10 minutes," says Hasan, "because we were all afraid there might be a second blast...
...that I fully realized what I had though. I suffered a concussion and the experience (quite literally) knocked some sense into me. After an awful night in Mt. Auburn Hospital being woken up every hour to make sure I was still alive, I was returning to Dunster in a taxi. My cell phone beeped, and I saw that I had a voicemail. It was from a bunch of my friends. They had gotten together to call me and see if I was alright—specifically, to see how my “crippled ass” was doing...