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Infiltration? A possibility. The problem was locating a female among FBI ranks who would be willing to frizz her hair and wear jeans (for the good of the country). Rumor has it that they finally located one for the job, but unfortunately she came back from her first NOW meeting demanding equal pay. So, recognizing the instability inherent in all females, even their own recruits, and unable to find any male agent willing to go in drag, the FBI abandoned the infiltration ploy...
...training goes through weeks of sometimes tearful self-improvement and self-display. There are trips to Palo Alto to work with her orchestrator. Hairdresser John Bettiol works over her for hours, striving for that perfect balance between wholesomeness and sophistication. He coaxes Christine's permed frizz into a Cosmo-mane of curls, daubing her face with goo and powder. Sneaking a peek in the mirror, she is aghast. Her mouth is caked in red sludge. "It should have blood dripping from it," she jokes. The photographer is unimpressed. What Christine hates most is the fake eyelashes...
...about the girl with the willowy voice, so supple that she would wrap it around a note, bend it, put a spin on it, and then zoom up or down a couple of octaves. Her single Poetry Man hit the top ten on the charts, and now square-shaped, frizz-topped Phoebe Snow has walked off with a Rocky for Best New Female Vocalist given at Don Kirshner's Rock Music Awards...
...Says Max Moskowitz, head of sales, "It's like a fairy tale." To assure a happy ending, Mr. Moskowitz warns customers of the few snarls involved: "Don't wear the wig when you are looking at a roast, excessive heat makes it frizz. Don't use a nylon brush, it causes static. Don't comb and brush when wet, the set can come out." Otherwise, he beams, "just wear, and enjoy...
Sylvia Russell's complexion was pale olive and her eyes were limpid hazelgreen, but her hair was her crowning glory. It was what British Guiana called "Good Hair": it came flaxen straight from her immigrant cockney father and gave no hint, by frizz or kink, that Sylvia's mother was "a low-class girl" of "Buck" (Guiana Indian) and Negro parentage. Sylvia could not claim to belong to "the respectable middle class" of old and established colored families, but she was tony enough to attend the Georgetown academy of Miss Jenkins (a colored lady who passed for white...