Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...everyone is buying into the frenzied rhetoric. " 'Death to Germany?' Why?," asks taxi driver Mohamed Abu Maryam, who says he is dismayed by some of the responses. "Why blame a country for the actions of an individual...
...onto his phone, of Obama chanting "Yes we can! Yes we can!" As the election results rolled in, Diarra joined the celebrations on Bamako's streets, and changed his ringtone again, to Obama's victory song by Stevie Wonder, "Signed, Sealed, Delivered," which he has kept ever since. His taxi's dashboard is decorated with stickers of Obama's face. And during the hours he spends chugging through Bamako's streets, he has created his own jingles, which he belts out - windows rolled down, fist pumping the air to the rhythm - with a grin on his face: "O-bama...
Hamid Diarra is not a man who hides his passions - and these days one consuming love inspires him as he drives his taxi through the clogged streets of Mali's capital. He's crazy about Barack Obama...
...impact Obama makes during his trip to Africa might be the enormous accomplishment he has already achieved - getting elected President. Even though that alone will not be enough to oust dictators and usher in new democracies, it is sure to keep Diarra singing out of the window of his taxi, "O-bama! O-bama...
...Being There who provokes all those around him to expose themselves in some way. And then there's the other comic who was routinely described as a performance artist: Andy Kaufman. For starters, Borat owes a thing or two to Latka, the Ruritanian innocent that Kaufman played on Taxi. More important, Baron Cohen's approach calls to mind those Kaufman routines - though routine is the wrong word for anything he did - in which he deliberately set out to bore and bewilder his audiences, just to see what would happen. In one he went onstage and simply read aloud from...