Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...patch. The feuding families are so grossly caricatured in the writing and direction that by comparison the Jukes and the Kalli-kaks seem like the Cabots and the Lodges. Robert Ryan and Rod Steiger appear as the opposing patriarchs, Ryan looking stunned, Steiger wallowing in mean ingless excess, a puppet dedicated to self-parody. Jeff Bridges, as a sensitive son, is decent enough- a triumph under the circumstances-and a newcomer named Season Hubley is something more than that. In the thankless role of a teen-age girl who is spirited off by the Steiger clan, she is fresh, sexy...
Open Door. A humble servant to Hoffa all through his labor life, a man whom AFL-CIO President George Meany had called a puppet, Fitz suddenly leaned back in Jimmy's big white chair in the Teamsters' marble palace in Washington and decided that he liked the feel of the job. More important, President Nixon liked Fitz in the job. Seeking labor support for his reelection, the President dropped by a Teamsters executive board meeting in Miami Beach that June of 1971 to pay his respects to the new boss personally. Said Nixon: "My door is always open...
Jess Ritter, a mod.-lit. man out at San Francisco State, is sitting down to a greasy cheeseburger when into his office walk two students, Space Daisy and Victor. "You see," says Space Daisy, offering Ritter a cream cheese and chopped nut on pumpkin bread, "Victor also makes puppets, and his friend Street Eddie snoots Super-8 movies. Now what we want to do is make a puppet movie about Slaughterhouse-Five, showing Billy Pilgrim and Montana Wildhack on Tralfamadore instead of my writing this term paper on Vonnegut...
...House still expects Thieu, after a good deal of agony and political posturing, to do just that. Nixon refused to hold a summit conference with Thieu before the agreement with Hanoi was further pinned down, since that would, paradoxically, make Thieu look as though he were either a U.S. puppet or was pushing Nixon into a tougher bargaining stance. Washington feels that the momentum of negotiations and worldwide hopes for an end to the bloodshed is too strong for Thieu to resist. But Nixon also made it clear that the U.S. would not be blocked from a settlement that...
...verge of becoming No. 1. Though Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, 21, succeeded his father as President for Life, it sometimes seemed in the early stages of his rule that the cunning Cambronne was actually pulling the strings of power. But last week Cambronne was headed into exile, a puppeteer apparently cut adrift by his puppet...