Word: puppeteer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bore at 15 and is now herself a slow 32 years old. As for Mercy, she has no character at all; her external priggishness cloaks a savage Sapphic hunger. George is promptly cast out of the triangle and crawls, wounded, to obscurity. Her new job: the voice of a puppet called Clarabelle...
...wife, "one or two notches" in his belt. But he won a personal victory of sorts. In part, Thieu's delay was a face-saving gesture. But in forcing some concessions from the U.S., he enhanced the credibility of his government as an independent entity rather than the "puppet" regime that the Communists are so fond of belaboring. Finally, Thieu strengthened his domestic position, and averted a rebellion among the hardliners, who are fearful of a sellout in Paris...
...most ironic element in it was the way in which it demonstrated Saigon's new-found independence. The U.S. has all along labored to help create a stable constitutional government that could eventually stand on its own, a government immune to Communist charges that it is a mere puppet of the Americans. President Thieu's defiant holdout provided an unexpected confirmation that the U.S. has indeed been at least partially successful in those objectives in Viet Nam. The impasse, as Washington saw it, constituted an untimely assertion of nationalism by Saigon, making the U.S. quest for peace...
...held camera stumbles behind the strangler re-enacting--in the psychic presence of Bottomley--one of his slayings. A few multiple image projections here, as throughout the film, serve mainly to drain whatever fear, fascination, or other emotion the strangler might evoke, reducing him to the level of a puppet dangling around on screen...
...American and puppet troops ran away...