Word: taxis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Awarding taxi medallions and liquor licenses will no longer concern Mary Calnan, who recently announced she will step down as chairperson of the city's License Commission A graduate of Boston College Law School, Calnan has been employed by the city at various times since...
...pride, "In school, the other kids call us 'Olympians.' " A cab driver buzzes about town with his new CB radio turned up to catch a dispatcher's grating squawk through the static. "We got this radio system new since the Olympics," he boasts. "Now tourists can call for a taxi, and we come just like in other cities." At the skating rink where Torvill and Dean once carved perfection, the jam-packed crowd of children looks like it is having recess on an oil slick: hardly a child in Sarajevo had owned a pair of skates until the Olympic rinks...
...free afternoon in the middle of the Games last year, a taxi driver was asked to take a first-time visitor to one of Sarajevo's historical sites. He drove around the city and the hillsides above for more than three enthusiastic hours, then took her to his home for thick, black coffee with his family. On returning to the press village, he refused payment. At the end of a visit this year, another taxi pulled up to the modern Butmir Airport entrance, where the fare was paid. Gratefully a tip was offered, but the driver declined...
...been banned briefly (a judge lifted the censorship), and demonstrators have jostled and insulted ticket holders in line. The reason for the fuss is the film's plot, a contemporary version of the virgin birth. Mary is the outspoken, truculent daughter of a gas-station manager; Joseph is a taxi driver who at the news of her pregnancy mutters about how good her other lovers must have been; the Archangel Gabriel is a drunken roughneck; and Jesus turns out to be a turbulent toddler who exclaims, "I am the one who is," leading Joseph, behind the wheel of the family...
MARRIED. Martin Scorsese, 42, film director with a bleak, often obsessive vision (Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy); and Barbara DeFina, 38, film production worker whom he met in 1980 on the set of Raging Bull and who worked with him on his forthcoming film After Hours; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in New York City...