Word: puppeteer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Burton's voice is fine, but his Hamlet lacks nobility. He is all surface; at best Gielgud's puppet. When he soliloquizes, he is not a distressed man deliberating a painful dilemma, but an actor delivering, with some embarrassment, a difficult soliloquy. He acts the part well, but he never becomes...
...things that people gladly do, but do not dare talk about"; before one song, he says, "this is very French, but then I am French." The lyrics, intricately rhymed manifestos, present philosophies of life; Aznavour delivers them with his soul in his strong, clear voice. Then, like a broken puppet, he staggers off stage, his back to his audience...
Senator Fulbright feels the U.S. is compelled to recognize the Communist regime in Cuba. This would stabilize Khrushchev's puppet, Castro, and by example give the same guarantee to Khrushchev for any other subverted nation...
Senator Fulbright feels the U.S. is compelled to recognize the Communist regime in Cuba. This would stabilize Khrushchev's puppet, Castro, and by example give the same guarantee to Khrushchev for any other subverted nation...
...them, consequently, read better than they play, and the same is true of this first collection in English of the Lorca "comedies." Two of the five were written by Lorca when he was in his teens for presentation in the puppet theater that he had built for the entertainment of neighborhood children. Of the others, only one is a genuinely major work, Dona Rosita, the Spinster, which Lorca wrote two years before his death...