Word: puppeteer
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...kind of show." Actually, he adds, "I think of this place as much more a television studio than a gallery." He has already drawn up a pell-mell schedule calling for experimental films and plays, a production of Fire by New York's Bread and Puppet Theater, as well as exhibitions of cybernetic and advertising...
...genial, so temperate, the puppet-dance of "humanoid" and "celluloid" but never the anarchy of unmeaning ragged syllables. Is it unfair to ask for a little brain spread on the table...
...accelerated part-time military training for university students. Though he probably will accept sooner or later, Thieu at first held off saying yes to President Johnson's invitation to come to Washington; he thus hoped to show his fellow countrymen that he is no American puppet...
Some more speculation: Babe's use of film and other media conflicts with his rather pedestrian notion of a crowd of puppets--clown-like figures unable to stand straight who exist only insofar as they are manipulated by the tribunes or swayed by mass instinct. The crowd is conceived as pantomime, the movies as a sophisticated blend of film and drama, and the two styles belong to two different kinds of production. Shakespeare made the crowd puppet-like enough; Babe extends the metaphor and is heavy-handed...
...quiet-spoken Belgian, Jean Rey, the Common Market's Commissioner for Foreign Affairs. Since Rey's chief qualification at the time seemed to be that he was the only candidate De Gaulle would accept, the Common Market partners feared that he might prove to be merely a puppet for De Gaulle's disruptive ambitions...