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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...
...sometimes elaborate denial. The critic Richard Oilman recently published Decadence (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). His elegant treatise argues that the term is almost impossible to define, is constantly misinterpreted and misused, and quite possibly should be deleted from the language...
...Oilman makes a persuasive, if somewhat pedantic, point...
...upwards of 3 min. in length. Straightforward accounts of Andrew Young's resignation and the Mexican oil spill may be followed by playful reports on a teen-age Soviet black marketeer ($100 for blue jeans, $200 for a new Kiss album) or an interview with Marxist Professor Bertell Oilman, who invented the board game Class Struggle. When interest rates soared last week, All Things Considered explained the event by staging a 10-min. mock Italian opera, Grosso Interesso, with professional singers, orchestral accompaniment and cunningly dubbed voices of real Government economic policymakers...
Though the companies are only doing what is necessary to keep the oil flowing, their public-image difficulties are compounded by one economic fact that no oilman can explain away: for better or for worse, the Seven Sisters, and many of their smaller competitors as well, have interests that are often parallel to those of the price-gouging OPEC cartel...