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Unlike the cramped taxicabs that passengers around the world must frequently endure, the tall, black and boxy London taxi is well loved for its roominess and comfort. Conservative Londoners were thus greatly alarmed when a Birmingham company called Metro Cammell Weymann said it was building a streamlined rival to the traditional taxi, which is made by London Taxis International and first appeared...
...city fathers may not appreciate the etymology lesson that opens CBS's new mini-series, Fresno. But Creator Barry Kemp (a writer-producer who has worked on Taxi and Newhart) could not help noticing that Fresno, the world's raisin capital, wound up last in a 1984 ranking of American cities according to quality of life. To be sure, the quality of life for the raisin-growing Kensington family has been drying up for years. The family patriarch was crushed to death 20 years ago in a dehydrator accident. Now his widow Charlotte (Carol Burnett) spends her time sipping Bloody...
After telling us that he was "so po" that he had been born in the back of a taxi, Karl retorted he was "so po"' that he had been born on a hubcap in the middle of the road. Dr. Zeke fell off his chair and ran out of the Tasty into the middle of the street...
...York, I was riding in a taxi and the driver said, "I'm from Minsk." I began asking him questions, so persistently that he asked, "You wouldn't happen to be in the KGB, would you?" I persuaded him that I wasn't, and toward the end of our talk, he suddenly asked, "Aren't you Sakharov's wife...
...come here five years ago, not knowing any English. He had to borrow from a bank to buy his taxi medallion, but now the loan is almost paid off. He is over 50, and he has spent his life -- both here and there -- behind the wheel. He says, "The Russians are a good people, what fine people! But America is the best country in the world. It is not true that there is no work. You just have to want to find it, and they'll help you and there will be work. And there is such an abundance...