Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ingram and Ravenel are both mounting strong challenges, but neither is expected to win. Helms and Thurmond have effectively counterattacked in ways that reveal their political adroltness. Thurmond has rather skillfully made Ravenel out to be the puppet of special interests, though his own out-of-state contributions total more than Ravenel's. Helms has taken a different tack. He ridicules Ingram's obvious lack of sophistication and pictures him as naive and gullible--certainly not the kind of man North Carolinians should trust to hold down the fort against the Russians...
...allowed to go unchallenged, this latest South African demonstration of contempt for international standards of justice can only result in the election of a Pretoria-controlled puppet regime and the continued political and economic subjugation of Namibia's black majority...
...Shah's father, a German sympathizer, was forced to abdicate when the Allies needed a secure route to channel war supplies to Russia. British and Soviet forces occupied Iran, and Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, then 22, took power. After the war, the Soviets stayed on and set up a puppet regime in the northern province of Azerbaijan. The young Shah brought the issue before the United Nations Security Council and succeeded in having them thrown...
...cinema? An outtake from National Lampoon's Animal House? Nothing of the sort. It's just the Muppets, the world's most popular television stars, making their first movie-an $8 million comedy called simply The Muppet Movie. The film is a "road" epic about the puppet gang's perilous trek from the Deep South to Hollywood...
...arms stretched painfully skyward, as they stare into reverse-image video monitors to see what their arms and fingers are doing. "Think of dancing, which is a physical extension of internal feelings," explains Muppeteer Jerry Nelson, 44. "In a smaller way, pushing creative energy through your arm into the puppet is the same thing...