Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story after story, Sansom demonstrates his special ability for staging Grand Guignol within the puppet-sized theater of the short story. He can write about the rivalry of two barbers, in Impatience, without giving the reader the feeling that he has just dropped in for a quick shave; the scene in which the barbers take to each other with straight razors evokes the violence of the London slums in a specially horrible way. And On Stony Ground introduces a wistful clerk who has only two window boxes, but each day he buys a packet of seeds; his predicament is comic...
...winningly by Joan Plowright as she plays the 94-year-old wife in The Chairs). The play perhaps symbolizes how pedantry destroys individuality, but like so much anti-academic satire, runs to academic jokes. Ionesco's seems an agreeable but thin talent, with a kind of philosophic-puppet show appeal...
...girl was 19, and a princess-Aishinkakura Eisei, niece of Henry Pu Yi, the Japanese puppet "Emperor of Manchukuo [Manchuria]," who is now a prisoner of the Chinese Reds. The boy: spectacled Takemichi Okubo, 20, the son of a railroad executive. Both were students at Gakushuin University in Tokyo...
...lapels with a rousing Seventy Six Trombones. Later in a gay, public-library ballet, Preston soft-shoes a hard sell of love-making to the librarian. Number after number-street gossipers, the arrival of cornets by Wells Fargo, a Shipoopi in a gym-has its own blared or strutted, puppet-jiggled or cricket-chirped animation. In the title role, a Preston who had never danced or sung during 20 years of show business becomes, at a bound, a brilliant song-and-dance man. His triumph, to be sure, stems from something less than singing, and seldom exactly dancing; it grows...
...Communism's double-edged battle-axes was made an ambassadress in an appointment smacking strongly of nepotism. East Germany's first envoy to Yugoslavia: Lieut. General Eleonore ("Lore") Staimer, 51, dutiful daughter of East Germany's puppet President Wilhelm Pieck. She will probably take her Belgrade post next month, work hard at cultivating new amity between Tito and Soviet satellites...