Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attracting the support they did a year ago. Yet what are we to do? The F.B.I. continues to practice selective repression. We continue to spend three quarters of a billion dollars on defense while poverty, pollution, and racism eat away at our society. Our military machine and its puppet armies continue to ravage Indochina daily while we raise scarcely a whisper...
...worst that could happen. That will no longer serve; it is clear that Nixon holds much worse in store if he is allowed to pursue his policies unchecked. Since May, the war has been steadily expanded: the destruction of Cambodia's neutralist regime and the installation of an American puppet: the invasion of Cambodia by U. S. and South Vietnamese soldiers; the bombing of North Vietnam and the announcement of new policies which wipe out the 1968 bombing halt: the lightning raid on North Vietnamese territory; the expanded air war over Cambodia; and now the invasion of Laos...
...motion. The actors moaned, groaned, hissed and made surrealistic animal noises. Do we think of Lear as an arrogant red-hotheaded old king, his own Fool's fool? Brook gave us the first ice-cold Lear, a man who fully understands that his predicament is to be a puppet meaninglessly strung from a sky without gods...
...strong, scrupulous and thoroughly rewarding revival of Ibsen's A Doll's House now graces off-Broadway. Matching the exquisite delicacy of her features, Claire Bloom moves with emotional assurance from the early phase of the wife as kept puppet to the later phase of the woman who issues an emancipation proclamation to her husband. The larky girlishness of the early Nora is always a bit of a problem, but Miss Bloom manages to be a trifle giddy without appearing inane. As the later Nora, her performance is informed with a grave clarity...
...Bernstein, Duo-pianists Gold and Fizdale, and Sir John Gielgud. Perhaps the highest professional compliment the Standwells ever received was from Director-Choreographer Jerome Robbins. While experimenting with repertory theater in 1967, Robbins bought out the theater one night and invited his cast. He had been impressed by a puppet performance of a scene from Romeo and Juliet; that evening, he asked Peschka and Murdock to repeat the scene, leaving out the words but explaining their puppets' actions and thoughts. When they had finished, Robbins turned and exclaimed to his cast: "That is exactly what I've been...