Steeply's cover apparatus — the "Helen Steeply" CV and prior personae

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texture · YDAU (cover apparatus)

When: YDAU (the Moment cover); the c.v. and the Boston purse-snatch article predate the current assignment
What: The Office builds "Helen Steeply" a full legend: a "Putative Curriculum Vitae of Helen P. Steeply" (Time, Decade, Southwest Annual, Newsweek, Ladies Day, and now 15 months and counting at Moment's Southwest Bureau, Erythema AZ, with masthead byline and contributing-editor status), and a paper trail including her "only putative published article to have anything overtly to do with" metropolitan Boston — the Poor-Tony purse-snatch of a Jarvik IX Exterior Artificial Heart (scene 045), the sort of soft "medical/personality" piece the cover requires. Steeply's persona history is deep: "almost one year" as a "Negro" ("Haitian," 038), and the magenta-robed Seattle year (event 11). The apparatus is what lets a 1.93m, 104kg operative pass as a national soft-profile journalist. See the Steeply timeline; Poor Tony's timeline (the snatch itself).