Word: chris
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wimbledon's determination not to assign a top women's seed before the world's toniest tennis tournament represented an equal kindness to Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert Lloyd. That meant, for nearly a fortnight, neither was No. 2, and the peace was wonderful. "Once you've been No. 1," as Evert Lloyd says with a cool stare (she could stare for a living), "you can never be satisfied with less...
While Navratilova was losing 20 of their first 24 matches, she was learning psychological lessons from Evert, who ultimately would have to take physiological ones from her. Noticing that Chris had a support system of family and friends, Martina determined to gather a similar stronghold of allies, though hers tended to be unusual: lesbian novelists and transsexual ophthalmologists. Far beyond a serve and volley, Navratilova and Evert had contrasting styles...
...arrives are influencing American dining habits with their Continental nonchalance. They give a cursory glance at the bottom line on the bill, and seldom practice power lunching and power tripping. On a recent Wednesday, Manhattan's superswank Le Cirque played host to Richard Nixon, Publisher Malcolm Forbes and Chris-Craft Chief Herbert Siegel all at the same time. "They all looked at each other," recalls Italian Owner Sirio Maccioni. "Maybe they were thinking, 'Do I have the right table?' I could put Mr. (Giovanni) Agnelli (whose family controls Fiat) anywhere. Europeans might complain about the food, but not the table...
...pleasures here are as subtle as a rattrap sprung on a boy's foot. Dense, oppressively frenetic, heavy on the slapstick and low on the charm meter, the film asks to be experienced, not cherished. This efficient thrill machine contains gag homages to its makers' earlier work (E.T., Screenwriter Chris Columbus' Gremlins, Director Richard Donner's Superman) and even self-critical lines of dialogue ("I feel like I'm baby- sitting except I'm not getting paid...
...their troubles. Like other businesses, they will get less generous deductions for depreciation, and that is an especially important item for them, since their business consists so heavily of dealings in those highly depreciable properties, buildings. Adding up all the ways in which realty taxes will be increased, Chris D'Ambra, a San Francisco insurance broker who has been reducing her tax liability by investing in limited real estate partnerships, figures that strategy will no longer be advantageous. Says she: "My empire is on hold...