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Like many another piano student, she logged the requisite thousand hours before Carl Czerny's yellow-backed exercise books. But while Roberta Flack labored over knuckle-aching third and fourth finger trills, Rubina Flake-a daydream twin invented in early childhood-polished off Chopin concertos. At 13, Flack played the complete score of Handel's Messiah for her church choir. In her early 20s, she became a serious opera student. At that time Flake, presumably, was a diva at the Met. It came as no small blow then when Flack's vocal coach gently suggested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: What Ever Happened to Rubina Flake? | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

...When I used to look at those height and weight charts it used to scare me because I weighed so little. I still catch a lot of flack. I'm constantly being called tooth pick, birdlegs and other such names," he said...

Author: By Kurt J. Holland, | Title: Stein Rafto: Some Hawaiian Sunshine | 11/20/1974 | See Source »

...flack kept the publicity flowing. Thousands of dollars went into elaborate signs and banners. The leaders arrived in limousines. The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the committee, delivered his final exhortation in Korean, the kids, clutching their American flags, cheering in ecstasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: A Summer Week in Washington | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

Wonder topped that off by bringing out three fellow blacks - Sly Stone, Eddie Kendricks and Roberta Flack - for a reprise of Superstition and a rollick ing, hand-clapping, ear-piercing finale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Black, Blind and on Top of Pop | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

...critical success. A Case of Rape attracted a record-breaking audience for a realistic, if dramatically ill-resolved, study of the one crime in which the victim can almost count on being further punished by the legal system. Finally, with The Execution of Private Slovik, NBC managed to flack its way into the mightiest flop of the year. Mistaking sober intentions for genuine achievement, the network promoted the film heavily. It turned out to be a long, soggy script about a pathetically masochistic G.I. who became the only American to be shot for desertion in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New B Movies | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

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