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...wrinkled, yellow pea in this case is The Kugelmass Episode, based on a short story by Woody Allen and adapted for the stage by Richard Selden. In it, Sidney Kugelmass (Joel Levin), a professor of humanities at the City College of New York with a balding pate and a "chubby cheesecake choked body," tries to add adventure and romance to his life. He enlists help from a magician (Tom Blumenfield) with a contraption that can catapult a person into the novel of his choice and decides to have an affair with Emma Bovary (Troy Segal...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Two's Company, Three's a Crowd | 3/20/1979 | See Source »

...film loosely follows the actual robbery which took place in Boston's North End back in 1950. That one was concocted by 11 men, seven of whom slipped into the Brink's warehouse one evening wearing pea-coats and Halloween masks and made off with the loot. At the time, the Brink's gang wasn't looked on as a bunch of affable fellows who just happened to stumble onto the crime of the century. In fact, a lot of people were convinced that the gang had wide underworld connections. Even six years after the robbery, when the case finally...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: It's Been Done Before | 12/14/1978 | See Source »

...helpless in a sudden fog. The Maine coast, for example, is particularly subject to fogs that often shut down without warning ... A man and a girl went out from Bar Harbor and did not get back until next day. Everyone knew the fog had come in as thick as pea soup and that it was impossible to get home; but to the end of time her reputation will suffer for the experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: According to Emily (1922) | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...most esteemed evangelist in America is a vicious, foulmouthed, whisky-swilling slob who carries on a flagrant liaison with a pea-brained wench. He treats his preacher son like dirt and shells out cash here and there to hush up his scandals. That's the protagonist of Miracle, a squalid novel by Dotson Rader (Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Three Irreverent Authors | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...pea-sized pellets were not soluble mercury, which can severely damage the kidneys if ingested, but the metallic mercury of the kind used in thermometers ?potentially dangerous to very young children but not to adults. Nonetheless, the tampered oranges were a shock to Europe, especially after it became known that they were fruits of political terrorism. In a letter to the West German government, an extremist group calling itself the Arab Revolutionary Army-Palestine Command claimed it had doctored the fruit to disrupt Israel's economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SABOTAGE: Strange Fruits | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

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