Word: puppeteer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where something terrible and unexplained is going on. Bleakly Norman observes, but will not allow himself to become implicated in the lives of the pitiable and terrible people from whom he exacts tribute. He sees them not as people but as "characters" in an anecdote, grotesque figures in a puppet theater...
Etain O'Malley makes Helene into an almost puppet-like characature of a young girl--too childish, unfortunately, to be convincing as a bride. But while her mechanical motions and speech are unsuitable at times, they do set up a few uproarious scenes. Whoever did her make-up on Wednesday night, however, should be dismissed immediately. It was ugly...
...rented rice fields side by side with his peasant neighbors. Diem himself left politics before World War II rather than work with the French. In that tradition, Nhu, his wife and family were opposed both to the Red Viet Minh "army of liberation" and to the French with their puppet Emperor, Bao Dai. When the Viet Minh overran Hué, they shot Diem's oldest brother and the brother's only son, for months held Diem himself captive before turning him loose. Nhu and Can both escaped from the Reds, but Mme. Nhu, her infant daughter and her aged mother...
First Notice. The South Viet Nam that Diem inherited was in a state of anarchy. The economy was in shreds, and there was no functioning executive or administrative machinery to run the government. The army was run by a French puppet, General Nguyen Van Hinh, who was constantly plotting against Diem, and the police and security forces were controlled by the notorious Binh Xuyen river pirates, who had bought the "concession" from puppet Emperor Bao Dai for $1,000,000. In the countryside, two religious sects with well-armed private armies...
Along with the agreement, the U.S., Britain and Russia issued a brief communique that contained a Kremlin concession of sorts. The Russians had sought a nonaggression pact between NATO and the Warsaw Pact powers that would, in effect, concede legality to the regime of East German Puppet Walter Ulbricht. Moscow had hinted that without simultaneous agreement on a nonaggression pact, it would not sign a test ban. But the Soviets settled for a promise by the U.S. and Britain to take up the issue with their NATO allies in an effort to find an acceptable formula. The communique also reported...