Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hunting tigers near his summer villa at Dalat when the Japanese, early in 1945, made their 1940 control of the colony official and complete. They surprised his party, took him prisoner, installed him as a puppet emperor-until their own capitulation to the Allies a few months later...
Ventriloquist Bergen ordered the new $3,000 puppet because he suspects that tall puppets might be more successful on television than knee-sitters like Charlie McCarthy, who originally cost $75. Podine is also more mechanized. Charlie and his stablemate, Mortimer Snerd, are controlled by broomstick handles' in their backs; pushbuttons under Podine's hair make her roll her eyes and bat her flirtatious lashes. Podine has only one dress, will get no more until she clicks...
Joanna Brown has a demanding role as the shoemaker's wife which she tills quite fetchingly. She screeches, dreams, and flirts most convincingly. Sherman Hawkins, as her husband, acted very well, but he did not seem old enough either in voice or make-up. His performance, however, in the puppet scene was delightfully witty. Richard Heffron was hilarious as the pulsive suitor, and Roger Butler as the youthful sympathiser of the shoemaker's wife was highly amusing. The chorus of "over-pious women" and neighbors, who periodically pass by the window of the shoemaker's house to pass moral judgement...
...crammed his religious paintings with its people and places. Like his 1926 Resurrection, which now hangs in London's Tate Gallery, Spencer's new version of Judgment Day is laid in the Cookham graveyard. Its risen dead are a queerly turned lot, dressed in puppet-show clothes. They are tightly knotted into a composition that borrows something both from cubism and from the 16th Century Flemish master, Pieter Bruegel...
...Most able Viet Namese have refused to enter the government, and just last week three of Bao's ministers resigned because the government "in no way represents the people." Reports from western newspapers correspondents estimate that at least 80 percent of the population considers the Bao regime a Paris puppet, and backs either tacitly or openly the only national movement, the insurgent Viet Minh...