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...prisoner since the revolution, then an American foreign service officer who tries to bring food supplies across the border from a less doctrinaire socialist, and less impoverished, neighbor. In each case Ellello*u shows a flair for the dramatic--beheading the first, incinerating the second atop a huge pyramid of offered breakfast cereal and potato chips--but little sense of the inevitable. It is only after the drought worsens that Ellello*u begins to suspect that he might be the desired sacrifice...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Updike Unloosed | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

...area and built plants. The seedy waterfront is undergoing a face-lifting, and many of the city's Victorian buildings have been transformed from shabby relics into stylist shops, restaurants and dwellings. But Burlington's boom was threatened in 1976 when a major shopping-center developer the Pyramid Companies, decided to build an 82-store complex on an 80-acre hayfield in the town of Williston (pop. 4,000) only five miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Pall Over the Suburban Mall | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...Fiance (Simon MacCarkindale)--Cambridge-educated, handsome, but broke--shows up, and he and Linnet engage in heavy eye contact. Soon it's wedding bells, but not not Mia, who devotes herself to pursuing the lovebirds around the world and ruining their honeymoon. She pops up on top of a pyramid in Egypt, to which the lovers have raced their steeds across the desert sands and then struggled upwards, step-by-step. Finally the lucky couple ditch her in the streets of an unidentified Egyptian city, and board, and board their cruise down the Nile, servent...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Christie on the Nile | 10/20/1978 | See Source »

...Nubians adopted the Egyptian pyramid, but gave it steeper sides, and built so many that there are actually more surviving pyramids in Nubia than in Egypt. A 19th century Italian named Giuseppe Ferlini knocked the top off the pyramid tomb of Queen Amanishaketo (10 B.C.-A.D. 1) and found a rich treasure trove of gold objects (so encouraged, he knocked the tops off every other convenient pyramid but found no other treasure). Brooklyn has a display of intricately designed rings and armlets from Ferlini's find. As a series of faience pendants shows, Nubia's goddesses were almost proudly naked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Light on a Dark Kingdom | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

Priscilla still lives at the irregularly shaped modernistic pyramid of a mansion that Davis built, with its electronic sliding glass doors, its huge indoor pool, its Oriental carpets and its three pool tables. With her live her daughter Dee, 20, a guard, seven dogs, two cats and a horse named Freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Who Do You Want Next? | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

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