Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Staebler brothers spend the rest of the film trying to subsidize the dream. Meanwhile they live precariously, like Vegas princes in seamy unpaid-for hotel rooms. Jason (Bruce Dera), keeps a harem of two, Sally (Ellen Burstyn), a juicy tart past her prime, and Jessica (Julie Anne Robinson), her puppet-like "stepdaughter." The four cavort from bisexual bedside to desolate beach and boardwalk. But their joyride is scarred by an undertone of tension as they blind themselves to the steady disintegration of their dream...
These recommendations would end Guinier's control of the department. The executive committee never acts independently of the chairman and is his puppet cabinet. By taking control of the DuBois Institute and Faculty appointments out of its hands, the Review Committee was trying to end Guinier's domination...
...years, the tragedy of Viet Nam has thrust onstage a variety of characters who strutted and fretted their hour and then virtually disappeared from sight. Among them: Bao Dai, the last Emperor of Viet Nam, forced to abdicate after World War II, resurrected by the French in 1947 as puppet Emperor of Viet Nam, went into exile in 1954 to a more lotophagous life on the French Riviera. Now 59, his majesty lives in France's Midi, still enjoys a playboy's existence and occasionally issues political pronouncements that are widely ignored...
...heckled, someone tossed a burning jockstrap onto the stage and a prancing pair of Gay Liberationists got themselves busted. Despite the racket. Mailer held forth on his subject: "Richard Milhous Nixon and Women's Liberation." In the process he dropped such nuggets as "Richard Nixon walks like a puppet with strings controlled by a hand within his own head," "Most women have just started to think in the last two or three years," "McGovern is the only man who is morally superior to me." Finally Mailer invited "all the feminists in the audience to please hiss." When a satisfying...
...roles between cadaver and child? Would it be--that our children become our cadavers, and we are forced to dance with them?" Berners muses. In Calisher's morality play the dark power of reversal does not endanger her world so much as does the skillful hand of a puppet-maker...