Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also had ideas, introducing such novelties as all-day striptease joints which charged only a 50? admission, "taxi-boys" who offered their services as gigolos to lonely lady tourists. He married Helene de Cressac, a Polish-born stripteaser with managerial and artistic talents, and put her in charge of the staging, costuming and choreography of all his clubs...
...Tennessee. There upon the striking pilots, backed by $300,000 from ALPA, decided to form their own line as a subsidiary of Valparaiso Aero Service, a charter service in Indiana. They leased five seven-passenger de Havilland Doves. Since Valparaiso already had FAA certification as an air taxi service, Superior did not need a certificate to fly scheduled routes. While the striking pilots do not have the planes to compete with Southern on all routes, they hope to damage Southern by skimming the cream off the busiest routes...
...extra gleam in his eye, walked a middle-aged man with a battered suitcase in his hand and his coat collar turned up against the wintry drafts. As he made his way through the station to the snow-blanketed street to hail himself a taxi, nobody recognized him as one of the nation's most important citizens, a man who on Jan. 20 would be assuming a public office with such awesome responsibilities that the virtues or shortcomings of its incumbent could affect the destinies of the world. He was Dean Rusk, 51, president of the Rockefeller Foundation...
...actress, fluctuated from serenity in the morning to raging public brawls at night. Usually an affable man, Mailer became morose and belligerent. In Provincetown last summer he was jailed after a fight with police that began when he hailed a prowl car under the impression that it was a taxi. In Birdland, a Manhattan jazz emporium, two weeks ago there was another brush with the law after an argument over a $7.60 check. "I never know how he's going to react," says Actor Anthony Franciosa, a friend. "Sometimes he tries to provoke me into an argument. Other times...
...sleep out of her eyes, brushs her teeth, gargles, and so on. I was expecting the camera to show Miss Taylor as she . . . well, never mind what I was expecting. It is this sort of moronic half-faithfulness to the book--reflected again a bit later when a taxi driver nearly runs down a couple and then cusses them out, which meant something in the book but has nothing whatsoever to do with the movie--that makes you wonder what Mann is trying to prove...