Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Balinese Shadow Puppet Theater. Presented by the Wayang Kulit Shadow Play Theater Company in the Cabot Living Room at South House, October...
...Waterston is the most maladroit Hamlet to appear on a professional stage in the past decade. He bears not the remotest resemblance to a prince. He is like a little boy throwing a nightlong temper tantrum. His twitchy gestures suggest those of a puppet on the strings of a drunken puppeteer. His voice is woefully devoid of resonance. He delivers the Shakespearean line like a squawk box in dire need of a lozenge. Add to this little humor and less thought, and Hamlet the Dane becomes Hamlet the Cipher...
...victory in South Viet Nam. Still, many Saigonais still fear a crackdown. Liberation Daily, in fact, may have hinted that such a terror campaign is in the offing; a recent article noted "a popular movement to discover and pursue the wicked elements who were servants of Americans and their puppet Saigon government...
...handle his fantasy's archvillains, Critics Rosenberg, Greenberg and Steinberg. Wolfe is naive about critical power. The idea that Jackson Pollock was Clement Greenberg's ideological puppet in the '40s and '50s is sim ply not true: Greenberg did Pollock a great service by writing about his work intelligently and with passion, but he did not "tell" Pollock how to paint. (That dubious privilege would be reserved for weaker artists in the '60s, who wanted to attach themselves to Greenberg's by then mythical aura as a trend spotter.) In any case, Wolfe...
...that the Shah has met in his 34-year reign, greeted his Iranian guests with the kind of warmth normally reserved for close and deeply trusted friends. Outside the White House gates, several hundred Iranian students shouted "Down with the Shah" and brandished signs denouncing him as a CIA puppet, but the Emperor remained unruffled. He called the U.S. "the friend to all people striving for liberty and dignity" and declared that his country's good feelings about Americans were "stronger than ever...