Word: puppeteer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...staid as those of nearby Tiffany's. Century-old Schwarz has never had a sale in its famed Fifth Avenue store, where two spacious floors are packed with 12,000 toys, and prices range from 15? for a whistle to $2,000 for a furnished, four-room puppet theater. The store has refused to hire a costumed Santa at Christmas ever since Founder Frederick Schwarz ruled that "no one is good enough to play Santa Claus." The clerking staff is dominated by grandmotherly types who do not press their wares...
...Midsummer Night's Dream. The best puppet picture ever made: a feature-length version of Shakespeare's play put together by Czechoslovakia's Jiri Trnka...
With the exception of Walter Ulbricht's puppet state of East Germany, the most stubbornly Stalinist regime in the Soviet empire is run by Czechoslovakia's Antonin Novotny. Observing the form rather than the function of Nikita Khrushchev's destalinization drive, Novotny three months ago ordered the demolition of Prague's 6,000-ton Stalin statue and the transfer of dead Red Boss Klement Gottwald from a glass-topped coffin in a grandiose mausoleum to a less conspicuous resting place (TIME. Dec. 1, 1961). But this month, under the transparent banner of destalinization, Novotny carried...
...Communist Party at Havana University in the 1930s. A Marxist theoretician, he served as a government minister without portfolio in 1942-43 during Dictator Batista's long honeymoon with the Reds. At the recent Punta del Este foreign ministers' conference, the Cuban voice was that of puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós. but the words were Rodríguez...
...Midsummer Night's Dream. The best puppet picture ever made: a feature-length version of Shakespeare's play put together by Czechoslovakia's Jiri Trnka, the Walt Disney of the Communist bloc...