Word: cafeteria
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...AFTER A WHILE, everyone becomes his job," declares the self-proclaimed Wizard of New York cabbies to Travis. The Wizard (Peter Boyle) holds court in the fluorescent, all-night Bellmore Cafeteria, nocturnal stalking ground for taxi drivers and absurdly elegant pimps. The Wizard makes his remarks self-deprecatingly, dismisses them with a "what the hell do I know, I'm just a cabbie," but this idea is the animating force for the movie's action...
Familiar Breed. Travis, the taxi driver, is such a creature, and Robert deNiro has him down pat in a stunning, veracious performance. Director Scorsese has his environment down pat too. The garage that Travis works out of, the cafeteria where he takes his breaks, the porno theaters he haunts, the menacing avenues he cruises are rendered with thoroughly depressing realism...
...which originated in China 4000 years ago and has blossomed in Japan for the past 1000-has finally moved west. Every Tuesday night, the Massachusetts Go Society meets in the Science Center cafeteria to celebrate over strategies and delve into each others' psyches...
Window Fall. Ray was a bungling burglar. In his first known job, he dropped his savings-account passbook and Army discharge notice in the Los Angeles cafeteria he had broken into. Chased on foot by police after robbing a Chicago cab driver, he fell through the basement window of a house. In a dry-cleaner burglary in East Alton, he was surprised re-entering the place for more loot by cops who had noticed the window ajar. After stealing postal money orders in Illinois with a friend, he left a trail of poorly forged cashed orders and was caught. During...
...never really appreciate the luxury of accessible, stimulating surroundings until they're gone. Four years of Cambridge makes you fat and complacent--stimulus is routine there, served up like glop on the cafeteria line. It's departure is tangible...