Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freak capital of the world, it just hasn't done much for him artistically. In fact, everything Leon touches lately has stagnated immediately. Meaning: heard much outta Cocker lately? Or, watched Freddy King nosedive from a respectable second echelon bluesman to a very low grade musical puppet? Didn't think so. And critics have taken a dim view of his $10 three-record live album )little of which I've heard, but I can't say much for the prospect of 90 odd minutes of bad gospel rock.) Well, the judgment seems a little harsh...
...sketches a tentative plan of a separate Palestinian state alongside Israel which would give Palestinians at least the right to national self-determination in part of their homeland. However, in coversation, the author has moved away from that position because he fears a separate state would just become a puppet of Israel, a pool of cheap labor and a market for Israel's goods. When writing his book, Turki was more concerned with the existential question of how to restore the Palestinian people than with political probabilities. He sees a separate Palestinian state at best as a stepping stone...
...clue to what has happened lies in the amusement parks. They are clean, bright, and-to some specialists-models of sensible urban design. But their rides and electronic puppet shows are plasticized, sanitized pseudo experiences, pedestrian reductions of fantasies and adventures. They boggle the mind without stimulating it. The same is true of latter-day Disney movies, often set either in a small-town America entirely detached from what is left of that old reality or in a scrubbed-up version of a turn-of-the-century world that feeds the nation's nostalgia for what it fondly...
...core of Argentina's problem: the country's deep political divisions. Cámpora's statement last week that the government "will not permit anarchy and intolerance" was scoffed at by many Argentines. The speech, said one foreign diplomat sarcastically, was a mediocre performance "by a puppet who is not getting his ventriloquist's lines." But can the ventriloquist do any better...
...snubbed by then President General Alejandro Lanusse, who used armed troops to keep crowds from greeting him at Ezeiza Airport. Disqualified from running for the presidency himself, Perón negotiated with politicians on both the left and the right, gathering the widest possible support for his puppet candidate, Héctor Cámpora, 64, whose only qualification for the presidency seemed to be his declaration that he was the "obsequious servant" of Juan Perón. In the month since Cámpora's inauguration, however, he has appeared totally unable to halt either the intraparty fighting...