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...windows and doors every time it stopped.” While most shuttle drivers have positive relationships with their frequent passengers, they are often the unintentional sources of terror and/or nausea. “One time, the driver was explaining to me why she hated the way taxi drivers drove,” says Currier resident Delia A. Pais ’10. “She demonstrated this by braking all the time intermittently. She halted every three feet all the way down the street, jerking me and the passengers back and forth. It was weird...
...panache and crackles with a kind of joyfully subversive energy. Yet it is also a shocking portrait of Indian corruption and social injustice at a time when the media has tended to focus on sunnier tales of the nation's economic transformation. Sitting beside Adiga in a taxi after the event, he told me that he had initially struggled to write the book in the third person and had then rewritten it in just 40 days in the voice of the murderous servant. Back then, Adiga had just resigned from his job as a New Delhi correspondent for TIME...
...manicurist, when he arrived, was a short, balding man who looked like a taxi driver. Without much small talk, he covered his lap with purple towels and set my feet on top of them. Then he commenced clipping and filing with quiet concentration...
...poise of a privileged child - getting hit on by guys is just an occupational hazard - and is cocooned in her persona. So she's a good match for Nick, who is beyond being embarrassed by driving a battered yellow Yugo that strangers mistake for a taxi or carrying Handi Wipes in his pocket. They also like the same music, which can unite the most disparate souls. The big problem is his devotion to Tris, which baffles Norah ("I could floss with that girl"). That's Nick's cage; he's a bit too at home in his misery...
...laughs are plentiful, but the comedy, as usual in Ayckbourn, is tinged with pathos and pain. The bluff, insensitive Teddy barrels over the women in his life like a speeding London taxi. Giles (Michael Siberry), the sweetly clueless next-door neighbor, is the last to learn of his wife's affair and the first, pathetically, to forgive her. Ayckbourn has made a specialty of portraying people who are too dull-witted, or self-absorbed, or obsessed with social niceties, to comprehend the wreckage around them. The boozing French actress (Zabou Breitman), after a fling with Teddy, lets loose a torrential...