Taxi, which stars Panahi as a taxi driver ferrying a series of characters around Tehran, is not without politically charged content.
People were ferried to a series of hospitals, taken there by relatives and the emergency services.
Every day we'd wake up in our boutique hotel in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv and bundle bleary-eyed into a van to be ferried to a series of lectures.
By Day, It's the Ferry Again" ("Summer Shorelines" series, front page, June 29): The Staten Island Ferry is not the only ship of love in New York City.
Dreary weather, the seasickness that beset cast and crew, and the difficulty lighting the real-life ferry on which the series was shot, all conspired against it.
"Josh has said that he is embarrassed by what he has done," sniffed a spokesman, but trips to New Zealand – where a few years ago the union side endured a series of ferry-leaping, dwarf-throwing and indeed sporting humiliations – are swiftly becoming problematic in both codes (and not always for the tourists).
The 2290 feet E. L. Patton Yukon River Bridge was not completed until October 1979; until then, traffic utilized a series of ferries across the river.
The route took two days and was an integral part of the experience: a series of trains, ferries and a touring bicycle carrying panniers stuffed with notebooks, clothes and tins of beans.
In a book that works as a lively travelogue as well as a voyage of discovery and a philosophical inquiry of sorts (How did toy animals evolve into children's playthings? And why are beloved, clichéd toy ducklings yellow when most species are not?) Mr. Hohn begins by taking a series of public ferries from Washington to Alaska, commenting as he goes about the ups and downs of that journey.
The BBC had been scarred by several failures to create a popular soap, including the ill-fated ferry drama Triangle, which lasted three series.
