Word: taxies
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...taxi driver in a battered vehicle with a Bruegger's Bagel bag in the front hailed me and began driving me at breakneck speed to Somerville, cursing at the traffic in the tunnel and stopping reluctantly to pay the toll...
...adjust. When I was taking the taxi ride to Logan in late May to go home for the summer, I stared mournfully out the window and thought how much I'd miss Harvard Yard on a nice afternoon, my friends with whom I discussed "Star Trek" plots at length, Out of Town News...
...most ways, though, Cheers and Seinfeld line up on opposite sides of TV's generational divide. Cheers is the product of a group of writers and producers who learned their craft in the 1970s at the MTM factory and created such hits as Mary Tyler Moore and Taxi. Their shows typically revolve around the workplace rather than the family, are filled with intricately crafted one- liners and feature ensemble casts of exaggerated comic types. By the end of its run, the Cheers laughpoints had become so familiar -- Woody's naivete, Carla's surly put-downs, mailman Cliff...
...beautiful young woman squirms on the rear seat of a taxi in midtown Manhattan, trying to get out of her tight skirt, and then, when she has managed to do that, squirms again, trying to wiggle into a second, somewhat tighter skirt. She succeeds, but the new skirt leaves no room for lingerie. Off come half-slip and panties. She leaves them on the taxi floor, with the old skirt. At her destination, as she pays the cabby, he nods at the new skirt. "Whatdja do, steal...
...falls apart. That is, in fact, what happens; Ann Rogers crumbles and collapses. Why does this matter? Why does author Harrison's novel (her second, after the much praised Thicker Than Water) grab the reader by the throat? Is it the hook of that voyeuristic first scene in the taxi? Are we waiting for something like that striptease to happen again...