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...Wednesday to the U.S., which he had fled shortly after the Feb. 26 World Trade Center bombing. A 12-car motorcade whisked him from an upstate New York airport to Manhattan, where he was arraigned for allegedly aiding and abetting the bombing. Abohalima, a former New York City-area taxi driver, pleaded not guilty; his attorney charged that he had been tortured for 10 days by Egyptian authorities. Abohalima, said the lawyer, had been hung "like a shish kebab...
Triage resonates with the kind of frustrated compassion that underlies film noir. Movies seem to be the deepest part of the long shadow it throws: the scary, night-crawling beauty of Taxi Driver crossed with the corrosive, explosive political parables of Oliver Stone. It is -- in the best sense -- a deadly combination...
...comfort. Since the inception of Safety Walk, the driving escort has logged significantly fewer requests for rides, but the slack has not been entirely taken up by Safety Walk. Perhaps some of the people no longer calling were those who used the driving escort as a free taxi service--some callers have responded to the driving escort dispatches with the following rejoinders: "I'm not wearing the right shoes," "I'm not wearing a coat," "I've had a long day" and "I've always gotten rides and I want that to continue." The Escort must prioritize, some members...
...sparked the rout. The United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, however, raised the specter of a Serb "massacre" of Muslims. At week's end Serb commanders offered to allow safe passage to fleeing civilians, a move that could save lives but would also amount to what a U.N. official called "taxi service for the policy of ethnic cleansing." (See related story on page...
...similarly smarmy On Borrowed Time did), and most are not written by Hollywood veterans whose creative credits number Pretty Woman, City Slickers and A League of Their Own (plus, it must be admitted, Laverne and Shirley). For that matter, most do not have TV hunk Tony Danza (Taxi, Who's the Boss?), making his New York stage debut as a hoodlum. (For important plot reasons, he is supposed to be about 27, but Danza looks a dozen years older...