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While vacation bound Harvard students were flagging down taxi cabs to the airport last week, Cambridge officials once again delayed a proposed sale of 52 taxi licenses from Yellow Cabs of Cambridge to the Ambassador/Brattle Cab Company, pending an independent investigation...
...Taxi drivers told the Licensing Commission in February that the transfer would give Wilfred C. Suozzo, the owner of Ambassador/Brattle, a virtual monopoly on taxi medallions and allow him to dominate the taxi business in the city. The total number of taxi licenses was fixed by city...
...meant to be the quintessential New York woman, and she stood out like a kosher pickle on Minneapolis white bread. In the land of sitcoms, New York has rarely been a laughing matter. In fact, there has not been a successful sitcom set in the Big Apple since Taxi drove onto the screen in 1978, and with the exception of Rhoda no single woman has found a home there since Marlo Thomas perkily impersonated That Girl...
...then I returned to the center of the city and once again found myself surrounded by the gaze of Lenin as his face loomed from the sides of buildings. And the communist slogans and the Red Star were visible wherever you went. In the taxi on a fence, in the bakery--constantly one felt the presence of this national religion...
...Hampshire and Vienna. Lowe as the serious young narrator may be as about as convincing as a corpse but he does have a strange, androgynous quality that makes one keep thinking he'll say something interesting. Foster, who in spite of the pounds she's added since Taxi Driver, is still as appealing as ever...