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Starting off 1977, the industry's only real problem is excess capacity to make small cars. Both GM and American Motors have been offering rebates to tempt buyers into ordering models like the Vega and Pacer, and Ford Chairman Henry Ford II has complained publicly that his company must build more small cars than it wants to in order to keep the average gas mileage of its fleet within federal standards...
...miles into the Atacama. But the Chileans, regarded by some military men as the better fighters and tacticians, might be able to regroup and eventually push back the Peruvians. An armed conflict, if it did occur, would not only take a bloody toll of the participants but could also tempt other countries on the continent into similar action. Potentially volatile territorial disputes, for example, simmer between Venezuela and both Guyana and Colombia, and also between Peru and Ecuador...
...Firecrackers. ABC programming executives promptly decided to keep Tuscadero and her bike in high gear. She will probably not be around to tempt the Fonz again for a while, but she may be riding off on her own. The network is rushing ahead with a pilot for a new series featuring Kelly as Pinky. (Happy Days has already spawned one successful spinoff, Laverne and Shirley.) Kelly, a New York actress who played a hooker in Deathwish and Barbra Streisand's roommate in The Owl and the Pussycat, says she knew the Fonzie-in-love idea would...
Worse than all this is the movie's at tempt to make the audience accept such heavy, not to say klutzy, actors as Shaw and James Earl Jones as light-leaping, far-darting heroes. They work earnestly at trying to dance on air, but the strain shows. All that can be said is that their clumsiness matches that of the film's writing and direction. Swashbuckler sinks under its own weight like an over loaded galleon...
...engagement must be like - the large distances separating the antagonists when they launch their planes, the sickening speed with which the flames spread when they find their targets. But there is no real sense of the flow of fortune in the battle - the camera shies away from any at tempt at analysis. The Japanese, led by Toshiro Mifune, are neatly dressed and stoic (a useful virtue if most of your dialogue has to be dubbed into English...