Word: taxis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Farley, 69, owner of a local taxi company, had considered leaving Indianapolis. He has changed his mind. "This town is on the move," he says. "It's booming, and I ain't goin' nowhere; I'm gonna stay here and boom with...
...priest, perhaps, or even a Saudi businessman. All were undercover CIA agents. While the CIA was recruiting some 50 such Afghans in Europe, it was also, with help from the FBI, gathering a similar group in the U.S. Though most of the recruits were students, one was a Manhattan taxi driver, another a millworker from Ohio, a third a judo instructor from the Southwest...
DIED. Andy Kaufman, 35, quirky comedian who antagonized as many audiences as he delighted with his bizarre brand of humor; of lung cancer (although he was never a smoker); in Los Angeles. From 1978 to 1983, Kaufman played the childlike mechanic Latka Gravas on television's Taxi, but he was more celebrated for his stand-up acts and concert appearances in which he wrestled women, impersonated Elvis Presley and sleazy nightclub crooners, and sang the tedious camp song One Hundred Bottles of Beer on the Wall almost all the way through. He seemed to relish putting audiences...
Victoria Station, the opening skit, is an edgy conversation between a perplexed London taxi-fleet dispatcher and a maddeningly vague, or vaguely mad, cab driver (Kevin Conway). One for the Road, set in an unidentified police state, offers the horrific spectacle of the torturer as business executive, bantering with his victims as he sends them off to be flogged, raped or killed. In A Kind of Alaska, a middle-aged woman (Dianne Wiest) awakes from a 29-year siege of sleeping sickness to confront a reality at pathetic odds with her memories and hallucinations. Dispatcher, torture victim, woman, all struggle...
Over the past decade and a half, James Brooks, 43, has made a career out of writing and producing such unpredictable TV comedies as Taxi and Mary Tyler Moore. But last week, after winning three Oscars for Terms of Endearment, the first movie he ever directed, the normally pessimistic Brooks reacted in an uncharacteristically predictable way: he was ecstatic. "I'm nuts," he said. "I'm programmed for about two minutes of joy, and this has been going on for 48 hours...