Word: puppeteer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...integrating their schools, paints a lurid picture of integration in Washington, where "it was necessary to station policemen in the halls and corridors of their public schools, and even this action did not prevent rape, beatings and muggings." Although Sanders himself is a segregationist, Griffin calls him "a puppet and an amanuensis and a handmaiden of Martin Luther King...
When the Communists built their ugly Wall across Berlin last year, East Germany's Red Boss Walter Ulbricht freely predicted that the barrier would bring prosperity to his own puppet nation and strangulation to the hated capitalists of West Berlin. Last week, on the Wall's first anniversary, it was clear that just the opposite had happened...
...Respectively, a puppet, and hence "a politician acting under an outsider's order"; a Scottish word for common sense; a soup for prisoners or sailors; a mixture of rum and spruce beer; and a blockhead...
Think about it-a dirty puppet show. An evil puppet chains a lissome nude to a pillar and tickles her to death with a long pink feather. A vast bat helps tear the clothes off an undulating stripper, then flies away with her. A bawdy Balinese girl is seduced in a swimming pool. Bare-breasted beauties hang in bird cages over the audience, or parade around the stage, heaving, wiggling, sighing, shaking, and saucing the house...
Poupees de Paris was started by a couple of vaudeville puppeteers named Sid and Marty Krofft, whose family experience in the craft goes back five generations in Greece. They mounted their first nude puppet show for $40,000 in an out of the way nitery in the San Fernando Valley last year. The place had only 90 seats, but in the Poupees' six-month run they drew more than 50,000 people and grossed $112,000. Another production is now in its ninth week in Hollywood, and the Kroffts plan to open still another in Manhattan next fall...