Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Taxi drivers, bus drivers, and policemen interviewed yesterday all agreed that the new regulations for city bus parking are increasing the Square's traffic congestion and should be revoked...
...taxi driver's protests were vehement and mostly unprintable. "The buses have taken away the best half of the best cab stand in Cambridge," said Sherman Van Schaick. "We lost room for eight cabs, and the replacement stands that Rudolph has given us are not worth anything...
...West Virginia's youngest Governor in history. Four years later, he ran for the Senate but was defeated-and then William C. Marland dropped from public sight. Last week he held a brief press conference in Chicago. A reporter had spotted him behind the wheel of a taxi, making $70 a week. "I simply fell apart because of my drinking," he said, explaining that he had bounced around from job to job until now he has joined Alcoholics Anonymous and is trying to make a new start. He drives for the Flash Cab Co. twelve hours a day, visits...
There are some parts of the Gershwin score--such as the unmistakable street scenes with taxi honks and running vibes riffs--which had to be interpreted as they were originally conceived. But other parts were completely reinterpreted. For example, Gershwin intended the American blues in the middle of the piece to represent nostalgia for home: in Walsh's plot it represents the Cliffie's sadness during her temporary separation from the painter. Later, the bright French can-can music becomes travelling music for the couple's holiday before she laves. By changing the implications of the music, Walsh adds fresh...
...barriers between men are obliterated. In the absurdity of their situation, they discover a common humanity, a measure of individual worth. Eying a comrade, one soldier grumbles: "Doctors call his case paranoia. The army calls him a corporal." The dialogue is rough in texture, true in tone. And though Taxi arrives at its destination bearing no new arguments against the futility of war, Director Denys de la Patellière reinforces the old ones with soundness and dash...