Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is much to admire in director George C. Wolfe's eclectic production, which draws on Kabuki, Balinese puppet theater, rap, jazzy percussion. This is a big, bold, colorful spectacle--a boiling sea of sights and sounds. But something is radically--fatally--wrong with any production in which lines like Miranda's "Oh brave new world/ That has such people in't!" or Antonio's "Say this were death that now hath seized them" are laugh getters...
...confidence or something darker? "What John Malone giveth, John Malone can taketh away," says Porter Bibb, a media-investment banker at Ladenburg, Thalmann who has been a frequent critic of Levin's. Bibb believes that Malone saw the merger as an avenue to power. "Levin is now a puppet on Malone's strings. Malone is never going to be CEO of Time Warner. He'll probably never sit on the board. But he wanted to control Levin, and now he does." A scenario even has Malone divesting some cable interests, getting back his voting stock and making...
Campbell dismissed Williams' charge that theHRC is essentially a "Peninsula puppet...
Undeniably Elvis is king, but the Onion Weaver's Puppetry reveals him to be a prophet and cultural icon in a way few other media could. Using a multi-level multimedia approach, we guffaw at the professor puppet's scholarly analyses and the confessions of Elvis' sideburns. The live Blue Hawaii scene and the Graceland tour guide, though not puppets, are also side-splittingly funny. Frequent gifts flung to the audience accentuate the notion of Elvis as paraphernalia and keep everyone happy...
Some of the puppets are better made than others and the "stage" managing and tech could be more clean, but none of that really matters. It is a puppet show after all, and the amazing things that can be done with puppets overshadow any technical glitches. One of the Weaver's most clever uses of puppetry is the missing footage from the Ed Sullivan show revealing Elvis' all-too-talked-about pelvis. Also delightful is the mamoth floating Priscilla Presley Head...