Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Which perhaps needs a moment of explanation. Heinlein, "the dean of space-age fiction," has been one of my favorite people since I was ten. Red Planet, Between Planets, Have Spacesuit- Will Travel, Pod kayne of Mars, Starman Jones, The Star Beast, The Puppet Masters, The Menace from Earth- I have read all of his books at least twice, and many of them ten or twelve times. And so have millions of sci-fi freaks around the country. I imagine that a lot of them right now are holding their heads and moaning, "Bobbie, Bobby Heinlein, how could you treat...
...elected, the new set of intellectuals that invaded the White House decided that bombing was a little too spectacular. What was needed, they decided, were specially-trained Marines who would be ready to make a quick trip to a rebellious land, get rid of the rebellion, set up a puppet government, and then return to defend the homeland. After all, hadn't the CIA coup in Guatemala worked just that...
...certain that even a substantially united people could defeat the concentrated power of the United States. The success of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese has shown that the United States does not have the strength to deliver on its promises of protection to the puppet regimes through which it manipulates internal politics in countries of the Third World. An American withdrawal would confirm this paramount lesson of Vietnam, and it is thus understandable that President Nixon and his advisors have "ruled out" the possibility of an abrupt, immediate withdrawal...
Rubber Duckie is, of course, one of the more memorable moments from noncommercial TV's Sesame Street. Taken from Columbia's "original cast" LP, the song is sung by a puppet named Ernie who, it will be recalled, sounds like Bullwinkle J. Moose and looks-from the neck up-like a flattened casaba melon. After more than a month of heavy sales promotion, the song has already sold 700,000 copies, and has a firm web-hold on Top 40 radio audiences from coast to coast. In Detroit, for example, WXYZ's Dick Purtan plays it regularly...
...studio! God knows, he's probably the first person who's responsible for my being conscious of what the hell show business is. But I had such negative conditioning that it made it about impossible for me to act. I was no better than a Jerry Mahoney puppet." Why didn't he rebel? "I didn't know then that there was a choice, that there could be another kind of life...