Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JITNEY REVIVAL. Some contributors voted for jitneys-cheap, taxi-like buses that pick up passengers at designated points and deliver them to their doors in the most convenient order. Once common, they were banned in most U.S. cities in the 1920s after Intensive lobbying by the trolley industry...
Brooks' comic turns have recently found new outlets. He has started to shoot a series of short films to be aired this fall by NBC on a new late-night comedy program. Last month he completed a month's work acting in Taxi Driver, Director Martin Scorsese's upcoming feature starring Oscar Winner Robert DeNiro as a psychotic New York cabbie. Brooks portrays the campaign aide of a politician about whom DeNiro develops a homicidal fixation. Scorsese added three extra scenes to capitalize on Brooks' talents...
...place at the wrong time. A 23-year veteran of military service, he had a one-day transit stopover in Beirut while en route from a conference in Pakistan to Ankara, where he serves on the U.S.-Turkish joint military mission. Wearing civilian clothes, he was in a Beirut taxi when armed terrorists halted the car and seized him. Lebanese authorities searched for Morgan and his captors throughout the strife-torn country in vain...
...taxi from San Juan takes almost three hours to reach St. Vincent. As the islands slide by, embedded in their wrinkled sheet of sapphire, you run over your limited skills and lubberly sailing experience and watch your confidence begin to ebb. Bareboating is a cheap way to sail, but it is not for everyone-if only because a prospective skipper needs to show some experience before a charter firm will send him tacking off through the coral with $45,000 worth of boat under him. Anyone who knows the difference between windward and leeward but not between a boom vang...
...sponsored but nongovernmental "Tribune"-a more free-wheeling forum set up for representatives of organizations ranging from the National Gay Task Force of the U.S. to the Federation of Cuban Women and another group called the Aboriginal Island Women. Travel between the two sites involved a harrowing half-hour taxi trip through tangled traffic; many women complained that the conference planners had deliberately separated the meeting sites so as to keep radical feminists from upsetting the polite, official proceedings...