Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...direction come from Hanoi. The 1970 coup, the subsequent U.S. and South Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, and the American bombing, served as the rallying point to bring all these factions together. They are united too in their contempt for Lon Nol, who is widely viewed as an American puppet-and an ineffectual and corrupt one at that...
...beauty, his ability to record both pageantry and piety infused with the spirit of the Middle Ages, Zeffirelli almost manages to stage a glorious passion-play. Instead, he drags his characters along like caricatures through a pantomime, sacrificing the magic of a legend to the flatness of a puppet show. Giotto was perhaps the greatest artist to illustrate the life of St. Francis in his frescos at Assisi. Zeffirelli has not been able to prove himself a worthy successor...
...SEED PUPPET THEATER. Would you believe they alchemize silence and slow time into art? Neither would I, but who are we to question The Real Paper? Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Mass...
Jurisdictional friction became open warfare in the early 1960s, when the N.C.A.A. created a handful of puppet federations in a blatant attempt to encroach on the A.A.U.'s fuzzily defined domain. The N.C.A.A.'s rationale is that the A.A.U. consists of a bunch of doddering old lettermen who are too inept to cope with modern, big-time athletic events. Many in the A.A.U. answer that the salaried coaches and athletic directors of the N.C.A.A. corrupt their youthful charges by paying them off with scholarships and dubious "fringe benefits...
...part, Wagner kept setting tougher and tougher conditions. He must, Wagner insisted, pick his own running mates. To charges that he would be the captive of Rocky and Rose, Wagner snapped with unwonted acerbity: "I've never been a puppet and I never intend to be a puppet." Repeatedly he proclaimed: "I am a liberal Democrat and always have been." As for next year's gubernatorial race: "I will support a good Democratic candidate...