Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Outrageous! does present a distorted view of Toronto and New York, the film's other setting; aside from Liza, who goes through the motions of writhing under the willing body of a neurotic hero, Outrageous! takes an unswerving walk on the wild side. When Turner gets out of a taxi in New York and learns that his cabbie also shares his sexual persuasion, Turner flippantly asks, "Isn't anybody straight anymore?" "Sure," the driver deadpans, "my father in Montana...
Life is going on normally in Taiwan, but other signs of jitters are visible all across the prosperous, 250-mile-long island that lies 100 miles off the mainland coast. Farmers, taxi drivers and businessmen all nervously ask American visitors about the Carter Administration's timetable for recognition of Peking. Universities have been running newspaper ads offering translating services so that Taiwanese can express their worries to Washington in English; in recent weeks 142,000 such letters have been sent to the White House and Congress. Instead of warning smokers about health dangers, packs of Taiwanese cigarettes carry...
Sometimes looters were let go with a warning. One experienced pair of 26-year-old cops, with modish long hair and sideburns, spun around Bedford-Stuyvesant in a battered 1970 Dodge painted to look like a gypsy taxi. They spied a young boy carrying a big box. The frightened kid dropped the carton, and glass tinkled. "What's in the box, Johnny?" asked one of the policemen. ''Booze, man, liquor," replied the kid. "Where'd you get it, Johnny?" "I bought it, man, paid money for it." The cop peered into the box and saw the markings of a newly...
...young steelworker in The Deer Hunter, now being shot on location near Pittsburgh. That must be it: De Niro does not look like De Niro. But then neither did the flat-out dumb baseball catcher in Bang the Drum Slowly, the moody aristocrat in 1900, the murderous psychopath in Taxi Driver, the elegantly upholstered movie mogul in The Last Tycoon, or the jazzed-up saxophone player in the newly released New York, New York. For that matter, none of these characters looked much like another-except for the aura of intensity under tight control that they share with their creator...
DELHI. 2.3 million passengers last year. Averages 50 landings and takeoffs daily. Two runways, 19 airlines. Delays: minimal. Accessibility: cheap and fast. Allow 20 min. for seven-mile taxi ride to the city (about $2 from airport, $3 on the way back). Bus run by a cooperative of ex-servicemen takes 15 min. longer but costs a mere 55?. Flow Through: smooth, due to recent renovation of ancient terminal. Porters abundant. Baggage handling costs 110 per piece. Longest unassisted walk: an easy 15-ft. stroll from terminal entrance to immigration counter. Immigration and customs checkout: allow half an hour. Hotels/Motels...