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...Brokaw and ABC's Jennings, were at a White House briefing, in preparation for Tuesday's scheduled State of the Union address, when Presidential Chief of Staff Donald Regan announced the news. The two anchormen raced out of the room together, heading for their Washington studios. Brokaw got a taxi first, but Jennings beat him onto the air, sliding into a seat next to Morning Newsman Steve Bell shortly after noon. Brokaw joined NBC's John Palmer, anchoring in New York, a few minutes later...
...were unanswerable riddles. He watched, baffled, as a housewife on a quiz show identified six different TV series from a medley of their signature tunes." Sheila, his daughter from a marriage that failed long ago, is approaching 40 and has become an author of trendy, feminist nonfiction. Taking a taxi to visit her, Grey marvels at the rudeness of his driver and at the deteriorating London landscape: "It looked a lawless country. The blocks of workers' flats were dirtier, more sprawled and raggedy, than those of Accra and Dar Es Salaam; there was more trash blowing in the streets than...
Police officials said the only reported criminal incident in the square this weekend was an assault on a taxi driver seated in his cab on Holyoke Street...
...certain highly enjoyable level, After Hours is the year's best shaggy- dog story. But it is also a subtle exercise in comedic and cinematic stylization by Director Martin Scorsese. In films as varied as Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The King of Comedy, he has established himself as our leading poet-anthropologist of the contemporary urban landscape, an artist with a special feeling for the near psychopathic outsider, battering brutally but ineptly on the doors of bourgeois normality. In this movie, working on a $3.5 million shoestring, he has cunningly reversed himself. For Joseph Minion...
...when an emergency warning light and a buzzer went off, signaling trouble in the plane's left engine. At about the same moment, an explosion resounded throughout the airport. "It was like a dull thud," said Neal Andrews, 38, a cab-driver who was waiting in the airport's taxi line. "I thought it was a tire blowing out," Sharon Jessop, 18, a student from Manchester, recalled nine hours after her harrowing escape from the wreckage...