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Plays about historical figures rarely cast new light upon the figures or ourselves. Bernard Pomerance, an American living in London, has written a drama about a historical freak that movingly does both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Freak No More | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...mother of two, Whitman, 43, frames corporate policy as a director of Westinghouse, Procter & Gamble and the Manufacturers Hanover bank, conducts a weekly TV economics program, teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and travels everywhere advising officials on the global economy. Says Whitman: "I've advanced from a freak to a role model so fast that it sometimes leaves me dizzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Rise of the Role Model | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...DEATH FREAK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skuldruggery and High Technology | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...antiheroes of The Death Freak are old foes and sudden bedfellows: Italian American Eddie Mancuso of the CIA's Technical Services Division and Muscovite Vasily Borgneff, his KGB counterpart. Each is his country's genius of UKDs (Unusual Killing Devices); each, independently, has decided to retire from the killing game. Both are then marked for "extraction" by their agencies (they know too much). To survive, the assassins must knock off the five top section bosses of their respective outfits in Colonial Williamsburg and rustic Zhukovka. The odd couple?Dirty Eddie and cosmopolitan Vasily?get to pool their talents through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skuldruggery and High Technology | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...Tigers have lost three star players for the season due to serious leg injuries--defensive tackle Joe Lundic, linebacker Bob Ehrlich, and flanker Vince Battaglia, the last coming on a freak play during Tuesday's practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Must Beat Tigers to Stay Alive in Ivies | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

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