Word: cutout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That response is an ancient tic of the trade. At Central Casting, the tough, cynical reporter is as familiar a cardboard cutout as the prostitute with a heart of gold. This is the skeptical spirit that gave us Watergate, and though it has had no comparable success since (how could it?), the attitude persists. Without that spirit, he would insist, politicians would cheat and lie and always get away with it; government snoopery and police brutality would go undetected and unchecked; products would never be shown up for being less than advertised; wretched conditions, unreported and uncorrected, might bring...
Noiseless Shift. TIME Correspondent Ed Reingold last week drove a Ford van equipped with a DDE engine. His report: "If you didn't know the cutout engine was in the car, you probably would not even feel the difference. When you know, you are conscious of the car's being in the six-cylinder or three-cylinder mode only at certain points; you feel a small, noiseless shift...
...coloratura contralto. La Scala has such a rara avis in Lucia Valentini Terrani. She really has too hefty a look for an ideal Cinderella, but her voice was lusciously bronze and agile. The production is by France's Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; within a delightful children's cutout house, he manipulates his characters like a swinging Coppelius. How, for example, Soprano Margherita Guglielmi (Half Sister Clorinda) can make her hoopskirt behave like a Hula-Hoop and still sing is her secret and Ponnelle's. But it is immense fun to watch...
...nouveau gauche is a collection of oversized diamonds, rubies, emeralds and other jumbo gems made of mug-proof cardboard. The paper jewels, actually collages made from color photographs of real gems, are meant to dangle from the neck on elasticized "platinum-colored" chains. On the back of each cutout is a wry put-on and putdown of the world's most illustrious jewels and jewel collectors...
Both Tait and Mohr insist that there is nothing improper in their relationship. Their associates add that both "are cooperating fully" in the second investigation. However, Tail's firm will no longer function as an FBI "cutout" until the investigation is completed. Justice Department officials are now hoping that the new investigation may prompt Kelley to take a long step toward completing the housecleaning that began after J. Edgar Hoover's death...