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...starting to offer the movies serious competition for the entertainment dollar. The gloomiest forecast is of a nation of stay-at-homes getting all their fun from the giant video screen. "We are supporting a dying business, and the change is scary," says Paul Schrader, 34, who wrote Taxi Driver for Scorsese and directed American Gigolo. "Movies are on their...
...across. Last year, on the King's birthday, he offered free vasectomies (146 accepted). He makes a prize stud hog available at half price to farmers who agree to practice contraception. He persuaded 241 Bangkok cab drivers to dispense condoms along with family-planning advice, and pays the taxi insurance for cabbies who send in 50 or more people for sterilization; so far, six drivers have qualified. At village fairs and festivals, he shows up in a well-polished minibus to deliver his snake-oil monologue on the glories of contraception, organizing balloon-blowing ontests with condoms and teaching...
...Taxi fares in Cambridge will increase sharply today, as the result of a City Council vote last night to approve drivers' requests for their first fare increase in almost two years...
...optical illusion," she says, laughing. A cab driver this morning gave her an "uh-huh" reaction when she said she was a model. The days are gone, clearly, when a model getting out of a New York taxi meant furs, a flash of great legs and a telltale hatbox. Clotilde's mufti is early L.L. Bean ? galluses, a checked shirt and baggy cords ? because it is easy and inconspicuous, unlikely to attract muggers in the scruffy neighborhoods where photographers' studios are often located. What Clotilde and most of the other successful models...
...Francis walked by the railings of Green Park, not taking a taxi, still practising the frugality he had developed after his failure to appropriate the dressmaker's money. It wasn't important that the idyll changed again; what mattered was he had no friend. He'd gone on holidays with friends, but always there'd been sulkiness and tears. 'You're Francis,' a girl he'd thought to be sympathetic had pronounced six months ago in Cleethorpes...