Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...families. Some are even beginning to look back on their benighted communist past with a bitter nostalgia. A young Russian engineer, now unemployed, says he felt "nothing but shame" when, on TV, he saw his country's awkwardly named "Unified Team" compete in hockey during the Winter Olympics. A taxi driver, passing Moscow's heroic monument to the Soviet space program, comments matter-of-factly that it was built "when we still had pride in ourselves...
...afternoon in early January, Captain Robert Woods, head of the Los Angeles police department's air-support squad, was monitoring a high-speed car chase from his downtown office. A taxi was speeding south from Bakersfield along Interstate 5, pursued by several highway-patrol cars. Suddenly, after following the chase for more than an hour, Woods looked out his window and could see where it had ended. Nearly a dozen helicopters were circling the area -- six of them from local TV stations, which had been broadcasting the chase live. "Enough is enough," Woods said to himself. "Next...
...last person you'd want to spill a drink on at a cocktail party." These, and a great gut for pop culture, served him well as chairman of Paramount Pictures from 1974 to '84, when it produced golden-calf movies (Grease, Flashdance) and cash-cow TV series (Taxi, Cheers). Then he took over 20th Century Fox, where he stanched its financial hemorrhaging, stabilized its film program and, oh, started the first successful TV network in 40 years...
There are two tiers of clubs in this city. Some, like the Locomotive (in the 8th), are open to almost everyone. These clubs are perfect for young people and any taxi-driver can bring you to 'one. Cover charges at the clubs vary from 60 to 120 francs, and sometimes the cost includes a drink...
...media conspiracy, media sponge, media sponge. Look at that guy smoking and talking with shadowed breath. See all the taxi drivers? They're smarter than everyone at Harvard put together...