Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate for an old-fashioned liberal. He was the only incumbent Senator up for re-election who voted against the welfare-reform bill, thus earning him the sobriquet "Senator Welfare" in Republican attack ads. Wellstone, for his part, portrayed the former two-term Republican Senator as a puppet of special interests who voted against an increase in the minimum wage and for a pay raise for Senators. The incumbent, whose crusade for stricter ethical standards in Congress has endeared him more to his constituents than to his colleagues, does not apologize for his reputation. "That's my record," he says...
Punch and Judy Get Divorced is a new musical describing, as the title suggests, the divorce of the famous puppet characters. Through witty songs and well-chore-ographed dance, it is able to successfully address the problems of marriage in the 1990s, while providing plenty of comic relief. Punch and Judy become the archetypal married couple; as Judy 1 (Lola Pashalinski) says: "We've been together for 200 some odd years--some very...
...August the High Court in Ramallah ordered the release of 10 university students detained without being charged in a roundup of alleged Islamists. But Arafat squashed the order, explaining to a delegation from the Legislative Council that he had not been consulted by the court and was not its puppet. Soon after, the head of the court was forced to retire...
Houses have arranged sports clinics, a karate training program, Halloween parties, Saturday afternoon puppet-making and mural-painting...
Four days later, I came across the Crimson headline "Popular Russian Puppeteer Dies." I was hit by disbelief. The puppeteer couldn't be dead; I had just seen his act. I immediately and cynically assumed there must be some sort of hoax. This puppet man had to be alive...