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...weather because only the rich junkies can score out of the rain stand beneath a blue neon sign that says Police Station #4, in a parka, soaking up the wet like a DuPont Cellulose sponge. Inside, the good guys are drinking coffee and munching doughnuts as you call a taxi...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Strangers in the Night | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

...Diving Competition: Unlike diving you're likely to see at the IAB, the purpose of this rainy day event is to stay out of the pool or rather the spray from passing taxi cabs and MBTA buses. Catch this action up close by Burr Hall as vehicles take the turn into Quincy Street leaving wakes up to eight feet...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Raindrops Keep Falling... | 9/27/1977 | See Source »

DIED. Robert Lowell, 60, Pulitzer prizewinning poet whose introspective verse bared his own tortured confrontations with religion, mental illness and domestic problems; of an apparent heart attack; while en route by taxi from Kennedy International Airport to Manhattan (see BOOKS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 26, 1977 | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...early, Lowell seemed to thrive on middle age. He too had been humbled by madness-an experience he documented in Life Studies (1959)-but had survived to become America's most distinguished contemporary poet. When Lowell died last week of a heart attack in a New York City taxi at the age of 60, he was enjoying the acclaim that greeted his last book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Self-Examined Life | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...Outrageous! does present a distorted view of Toronto and New York, the film's other setting; aside from Liza, who goes through the motions of writhing under the willing body of a neurotic hero, Outrageous! takes an unswerving walk on the wild side. When Turner gets out of a taxi in New York and learns that his cabbie also shares his sexual persuasion, Turner flippantly asks, "Isn't anybody straight anymore?" "Sure," the driver deadpans, "my father in Montana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Creme de la 'Outrageous' | 9/14/1977 | See Source »

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