Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whirlybirds to lift church steeples and TV towers, telephone poles and prefab homes. The machines have become the most up-to-date tool for crop dusting, spraying, seeding, fertilizing; on giant ranches, one copter can do the work of 18 cowboys herding cattle. One New Orleans copter taxi operator ferries 180,000 oil workers a year to offshore rigs. The U.S. Forest Service blows out woodland fires with the downdraft from whirling rotors. New York Mayor John Lindsay is having a $3,000 helipad built in the East River beside his official home, Gracie Mansion, so he can whisk above...
...affairs of daily living that the individual needs to be treated as equal; as long as the average white Southerner feels set upon from without, he will take revenge on the Negro in those tiny affairs: the idle salesgirl who lets him stand unattended for five minutes; the white taxi driver who doesn't see him trying to flag a cab; the teacher who doesn't go out of his way to help a colored child; the service-station attendant who services everyone else's car before he gets around to the Negro's. The goal...
SWEET CHARITY. Gwen Verdon, danseuse distinguée of the U.S. musical stage, is fetchingly exuberant as a taxi dancer seeking a wagon for her unhitched star. Bob Fosse's choreography pumps vitality into Neil Simon's flabby book...
SWEET CHARITY. Gwen Verdon, danseuse distinguee of the U.S. musical stage, is fetchingly exuberant as a taxi dancer searching for a wagon for her unhitched star. Bob Fosse's choreography pumps vitality into Neil Simon's flabby book...
...bought for her, he demanded indignantly where she was going. "To do a benefit," she explained. "Not in my shoes!" he bellowed. With a sneer, she took them off and started out in her stocking feet. Then, with a smirk, he picked her up and carried her to a taxi. ("Not a word of truth in that story," says Merrick, "but print it anyway. I want people to think I'm strong enough to carry a woman twice my size...