Word: taxied
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...know immediately that I have refractured the foot I broke the previous year ... By the time we land in Moscow my foot is swollen and blue, and I know I must get it tended to. I have a four-hour layover, so airport officials get me a taxi and instruct the driver to take me to the closest hospital on the outskirts of Moscow. After X-raying my foot, the doctors confirm it is a fracture, apply a plaster cast, give me a pair of crutches and send me back to the airport...
...wife and I heard about it on the radio in a taxi in New York, and we had a good laugh. But come on! They must really have been dragging the dregs...
...resident of Alden Ave. of Revere reported that after dropping him off, a taxi driver—Farid Idri—punched him in the face, smashed his cell phone, and threatened his life if he saw him in Kendall Sq. again...
...been 25 years since Martin Scorsese unleashed his third classic, coming only two years after Taxi Driver proved that the Italian-American movie-maker was no fluke. Robert DeNiro, the star of that movie, appeared again as a powerful figure on the brink of insanity, this time as Jake LaMotta, a real-life former middleweight boxing champion whose power had a tendency to also manifest itself outside the ring, and who followed up boxing with stints in the mob, prison, and stand-up comedy. In honor of this occasion, the Brattle Theater is celebrating with a week of Raging Bull...
...looking dern and being it are entirely different things. Clues to Thailand's recent rural past are everywhere?witness motorcycle-taxi drivers in Bangkok sewing fishing nets as they wait for their next fare. This is still very much a society in transition, a place where the National Buddhism Office in 2003 felt obliged to warn monks not to use mobile phones in public. Very Thai is a compendium of fast-disappearing folklore: fortune-tellers who divine omens from rat-bitten clothes; apothecaries who make herbal aphrodisiacs so strong that they "could make a monk leap over the temple wall...