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...radio, cab drivers seem to favor Arabic rock, heavily synthesized and sounding like wailing Europop to the Western ear. AM frequencies that usually broadcast the Voice of America and BBC are jammed. The Arabic service of Radio Monte Carlo serves as a bridge to the outside world and plays American rock 'n' roll. No foreign newspapers, books or magazines are available; faxes are forbidden, and foreign travel by Iraqis has again been curtailed, as it was during the war with Iran. Still, the Deputy Foreign Minister's phone plays Home on the Range when the caller is put on hold...
...nice touch is the Satan-worshipping cab driver (Raynor Scheine). He just oozes gross, and his face-slapping foolishness is so funny it could raise the dead. It's pleasantly surprising to hear someone shout, "O! Evil master, I am at your command!" in a Bill Cosby movie...
...outs. Johnson's Wall Street advisers, who included the giant firms Shearson Lehman Hutton and Salomon Brothers, sometimes carried on like the Keystone Kops. At one point, lawyers carrying a Johnson offer became stuck in Manhattan traffic moments before the bid was due. In desperation, they leaped from their cab and raced the remaining two blocks on foot, arriving breathless and embarrassingly late. Said a disgusted RJR director: "This is the gang that couldn't shoot straight...
...best male newcomer of the season for his powerful performance as a disillusioned wino in the short-lived Broadway drama The Mighty Gents. Freeman was 40, and he thought he had finally made it. Instead, a two-year drought followed. He was considering chucking the business and driving a cab, when offers began to dribble in. Then, along came the role of Fast Black, the mercurial pimp, in the movie Street Smart...
After taking a cab directly from Logan airport to Bright Center, Sneddon tallied his second assist of the season in the Crimson's 7-2 victory. But the standout defenseman was wearing an eclectic uniform--Greg Hess' skates, Ted Donato's shinpads, Danny Scanlon's pants--after his equipment did not show up with his flight from Ottawa...