Word: enough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question this picture poses is whether enough tennis fans will put up with the romantic nonsense and whether enough romantics will sit through the tennis sequences to form a profitable audience for Players. It may be that the movie's commercial fate rests with those perverse souls who are always looking for good bad movies to snicker over. For them, Director Harvey is surely a treasured auteur, and this one of his finest, in terminable hours...
...daytime soaper All My Children could easily be a pro- athlete. She is: it's Czech-born Tennis Czarina Martina Navratilova-, 22, making her acting debut. As a nurse named Bolasni in episode No. 2,448, Navratilova is on-camera for exactly four seconds, time enough to walk past a couch and out of the picture. She only emotes during an off-camera stethoscopy by the show's heartthrob, Dr. Chuck Tyler (Richard Van Vleet). "They probably didn't know I spoke English," grumbled the 1978 Wimbledon champ...
...cities have been advertising that gasoline is available to their registered guests for side trips, as well as their return home. Harry Kelley, the expansive mayor of Ocean City, Md., has become something of a national celebrity by appearing on TV and announcing a "secret plan" to assure visitors enough gasoline to get home again...
Such tactics must seem like small potatoes to former Navy Secretary J. William Middendorf II, who this spring had a 4,000-gal. underground tank installed in the front yard of his four-acre McLean, Va., estate. The tank should ensure him enough gas to travel about 10,000 miles a year for seven years in a standard six-cylinder sedan. So many of Middendorf s prosperous neighbors prudently followed suit that last week the Fairfax, Va., Board of Supervisors adopted an emergency ordinance prohibiting any further tank installations...
...trend will doubtless continue. This works to the advantage of railroads, bus lines, short-hop airlines and, ironically enough, the rental car business. For one thing, people who once drove to a nearby city may now fly and then rent a car, which usually comes with a full tank...