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Henry (Andrew Bakalar), a playwright, leaves his actress-wife Charlotte (Ellen Harvey) for Annie (Beth Colt), another actress, who leaves her actor-husband Max (Tim Fleck) to marry Henry. The irony for the audience is that we've already seen this happen in one of Henry's plays...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Not Quite `Classic' | 4/11/1986 | See Source »

...fleck of inconvenience, maybe, or a passing unpleasantness. But an authentic disaster, as any of the specialists gathered in Indianapolis last month would tell you, entails grave injuries and, always, at least the possibility of wholesale death. The 600 men and women -- fire fighters and police, civil-defense officials, county sheriffs and physicians, scholars and sellers of all kinds of odd equipment -- came for four days of shoptalk at the first World Congress & Exposition for Disaster & Emergency Management. They came to chat about "pain management" and "grief work," about every kind of horror, about all the most public and spectacular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Indiana: Poised for Catastrophe | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

They did it by first building their business into three popular Phoenix-area restaurants called Garcia's and then selling out to Thomas Fleck, a founder of the California-based Cork 'N Cleaver chain, for $3 million in cash and notes in 1979. Fleck went public with Garcia's stock last year and has opened 14 new dining spots from San Diego to Des Moines since he bought the rights to the name. Garcia, 56, retired as chairman a year ago, but his wife, 53, still visits some kitchens and samples sauces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Enchilada Millionaires | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

...they displayed it. Harvard has been built on the principles of open discussion and tolerance of belief. If there bocklers are not secure enough in their own convictions to argue logically with someone who looks at things differently, they have no business "In the company of learned men." Timothy Fleck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tolerance Within The Ivy Walls | 10/20/1982 | See Source »

...straps a camera to a horse's back, and keeps pace with the lead troops. Not one image is blurred or out of focus. Before the audience, the foremost rider's horse unfolds its limbs in the rhythmical ritual of a gallop. Its nostrils flair, its hind quarters fleck with sweat. The earh resounds under the pounding of great hoofs. For an instant, we forget the object of this chase, so intoxicated are we by the fluidity of the horse's movement...

Author: By Laura K. Jereski, | Title: Liberty and Tyranny | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

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