Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rainstorm. The Kabaka's 300-lb. sister, Princess Zalwanga, collapsed and died; his pretty young Nabagereka (Queen) retired with her ladies in waiting and sent out a message that she was "bewildered and grief-stricken." Buganda nationalists, who have previously attacked the Kabaka as a playboy and British puppet, quickly reversed themselves and cried for "our beloved King." In the Great Lukiko (native council), Prime Minister Paulo Kavuma announced that he had radioed London, beseeching the British government to please send Mutesa home...
...Izmailova, ballerina of the Uzbek Opera Theatre, turned up with a trio of squat-dancers. Dressed in traditional Uzbek pantaloons, she wriggled and shook various parts of her body separately and in unison with dramatic overtones ranging from the flirtatious to the provocative. Sergei Obraztsov, whose official title is Puppet Master of the Central Puppet...
...first-class performance of glove-puppet pantomime. Avner Barayev, a virtuoso with the tambourine-like doira, gave a spirited demonstration, beating a pair of them against his knees and spinning them on his fingertips, and kept his rhythms tapping for ten minutes at a time...
Other noteworthy new releases: Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 (Paul Paray and the Detroit Symphony; Mercury); Falla's one-act opera, Master Peter's Puppet Show (F. Charles Adler conducting the Vienna Philharmonia; SPA); Great Arias from Bach's Cantatas (Hildegarde Rossl-Majdan and Hugues Cuenod; Bach Guild...
Most movies--and indeed, most plays and novels--which treat such basic conflicts manage to kick away the dramatic possibilities by reducing them to Cowboy and Indian, Cop and Robber puppet shows in which both the outcome and characterizations are as automatic as a pinball machine. The plot may get bounced around a good deal, but it always ends up in the same place. The audience unconsciously knows that everything will turn out all right in the end, and thus its attention is never fully concentrated on the screen...