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...that you stick to the official program." He was not kidding. His instructions were enforced by pistol-toting guards stationed outside the hotel. Anyone trying to make the normal round of journalistic contacts with diplomats and other sources-or even to go to a restaurant-was stopped cold. Taxi drivers were forbidden to pick up the reporters. "They can't tell you that," Wood said to one cabby. "Oh, they can tell us anything," whispered the driver, as a guard hovered a few feet away...
...With Taxi Driver, Martin Scorcese delivers us an up-dated twist on "Notes From the Underground," with sophisticated ballistics thrown in. Blown out by a decade of Vietnam and assassinations, Dostoyevsky's "man of consciousness" has become Scorcese's man without a conscience and body without a past: Travis Bickle, a taxi driver and ultimate nobody. Robert DeNiro gapes and mumbles into this challenging role, and somehow (DeNiro really astounds me at times) manages to convince us that not only his past but his entire identity has indeed slipped his mind...
...myth-maker, the ever-violent tube. The gorey ballet of blood that follows DeNiro's foiled assassination has all the trappings of a cathartic end to a Greek tragedy. Only the Greeks examined what happens when a man tries to imitate the gods; Scorcese shows what happens when a taxi driver tries to become "The Man From Uncle...
...that show themselves in absenteeism, alcoholism and other unpleasantries. We have heard that they feel simultaneously exploited (by both their employers and their unions) and ignored (by the rest of society). But such matters are not much discussed in movies. Paul Schrader, previously best known as the writer of Taxi Driver, which dealt with another sort of disfranchisement, deserves high marks for originality as prime mover, director and co-writer of this new project...
...William Miller, chief of Textron Inc., to succeed Arthur Burns as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. The reason: to give the committee time to investigate an assertion by Chairman William Proxmire that a Textron subsidiary, Bell Helicopter, made a $2.9 million payment to an Iranian sales agency, Air Taxi, that was secretly owned by General Mohammed Khatemi, the Shah's brother-in-law and commander of the Iranian air force (he died in 1975). Miller denies that he ever heard of the general. He said he authorized the payment to compensate the agency for past services...