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...difficult to get because more and more passengers are paying the premium rates to avoid the crowding and hassle of cabin class. But despite this booming business and a 32% increase in basic fares, the airlines are encountering profit problems, chiefly as a result of higher fuel prices. Says Marvin Cohen, chairman of the CAB: "Fuel has been a real bitch...
Stenhouse's only hope before January is that Finley sells the A's to a less penurious owner with whom Mike could negotiate. According to an Associated Press report yesterday, the sale of the A's to Denver oilman Marvin Davis "may be completed by the end of the month...
...will never again visit her. Potter heads back to Jessica's Halston bedroom and Zabar-stocked kitchen. A memorable camera shot pans their connubial bed as they make alex-comfort love while Candice chirps again--a disco duck on quaaludes. By now, the unhappy marriage of her voice and Marvin Hamlisch's music no longer amuses; it sickens--both us and Potter...
...David Moore, who doubles as Preacher Haggler and Conjur Man, is unoriginal as, respectively, the stereotyped holy-roller and evil wizard. He is stock in his mannerisms and gestures, unseasoned on the stage. While Laura Rogerson and Ralph Zito shine in minor roles, John Smith as the hulking, rassling Marvin Hudgens is as shallow as one would expect. Smith should learn that it is not enough to turn red in the face before admitting to lust in his heart...
...cannibalism is a hot topic in the academic world. Some sociobiologists believe it is evidence of man's inherent aggressiveness. Anthropologists are busy classifying different kinds of cannibalism, or depicting it as a ritualistic denial of death-the victim lives on by being incorporated as food. Columbia Anthropologist Marvin Harris (Cannibals and Kings) is a strict materialist who argues that cannibalism was a near universal practice made necessary by a scarcity of protein...