Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nader demanded to know whether standby passengers had been boarded, was told instead that the airline would fly him to Philadelphia by air taxi to connect with another flight due to arrive in Hartford two hours later. This Nader refused, and in due course he filed suit against Allegheny...
...taxi ride is the chief means by which New York City tests the mettle of its people. A driver, for example, is chosen for his ability to abuse the passenger in extremely colorful language, the absence of any impulse to help little crippled old ladies into the cab, ignorance of any landmark destination, an uncanny facility for shooting headlong into the most heavily trafficked streets in the city, a foot whose weight on the accelerator is exceeded only by its spine-snapping authority in applying the brakes. Extra marks are awarded the driver who traverses the most potholes...
Paralytic Yoga. The taxi machines are selected with equally rigorous care. Most are not acceptable until they have been driven for 200,000 miles in Morocco. After that, dealer preparation calls for denting the body, littering the passenger compartment with refuse, removing the shock absorbers, sliding the front seat back as far as it will go, and installing a claustrophobic bulletproof shield between driver and passenger -whose single aperture is cunningly contrived to pass only money forward and cigar smoke back. All this is designed to induce in the customer a paralytic yoga position: fists clenched into the white-knuckles...
...design at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, decided two years ago that what New York and other cities needed was a totally new look in cabs. He secured grants from the Mobil Oil Corp. and the U.S. Department of Transportation, sought advice from New York's Taxi and Limousine Commission, and drew up a 160-page study on taxis and their ideal specifications. He then persuaded five manufacturers to submit fresh designs based on the study. This week, Ambasz's dream, "The Taxi Project: Realistic Solutions for Today," went on display at the museum (see color...
...that time Lardner's health was failing. He was drinking heavily, though still writing lightly. At the end the author is being carted to a hospital, his Lardner tone still unmistakable: "In an ambulance they made you ride lying down, whereas you can take your choice in a taxi...