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...business relations with one of the frequent poker players at the club: Joseph Tait, president of Washington's U.S. Recording Co., which buys bugging and wiretapping equipment and sells it to the FBI. In the spy business (he also sells to the CIA), Tait is known as a "cutout," whose role is to prevent victims of electronic snooping from knowing what type of equipment the agencies are using against them. Kelley is pursuing reports that Tait may have been charging the FBI as much as 30% more than he paid the manufacturers for this equipment...
...State Fair Board spent $1.3 million to give a showbiz touch to the event. This year's theme is Hawaii, and so lots of the girls appear in ersatz Hawaiian print dresses. Ordinary sno-cones become "Hawaiian delights," and the entrance to the fairgrounds is crowned by wooden cutout pineapples. Fair Director Fulk offers a rationale: "People in the islands eat a lot of pork, and Iowa is a big producer of pork, so we should know all about Hawaii...
...designer of all, Halston, who numbers Jackie Onassis and Candice Bergen among his clients, believes that "the well-exercised body should not be encased." But he wisely concentrates on baring the safest female area for general display-the back. One slinky black jersey by Halston has a centerfold cutout scooped so low that it frames the lady's sacrum, covering only her ilium...
Epic Images. Oldenburg has a unique power to perceive things both organically and schematically - even his own face, as in his Symbolic Self-Portrait with Equals, 1969. "The face is a cutout, like a mask, which is past ed on the diagram of objects . . . One side shows the kindly aspect of the art ist; the other, his brutal one. The body is introduced in the image of the face via the representation of the body's juices - the tongue (bringing out the insides) - which doubles as a heart and a foot . . . The ice bag on the head signifies that...
Some National stewardesses decided that the idea amounted to a personal rather than a commercial proposition, and was a blatant sexist pitch. Three of them on a Halloween flight from New York to Miami displayed a cardboard cutout of a wrinkled witch in boots and military-type jacket with a Fly Me button. "If the ads would just say, 'Fly with me,' " complained Stewardess Ilene Held, "we'd be asking people to fly as part of our airline. It's the live stuff that gets to men, that makes them think...