Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dumbo, two classic Disney movies marred by demeaning black stereotypes. But we saw no harm in Pinocchio, which seemed as racially benign as Sesame Street or Barney, and a good deal more engaging. Yet now our daughter was saying she wanted to be white, to be like the puppet who becomes a real boy in the movie. How had she got that potentially soul-destroying idea and, even more important, what should we do about...
...Onion Weavers, a new student group formed in response to the "increasing specialization and politicization of extracurriculars," presented an (almost) all-puppet production of Aristophanes' ancient comedy, The Frogs...
...puppet show faithfully presents a series of frog-puppets, papier-mached, red-mouthed and bug-eyed. No Kermit lookalikes here, just an interesting and varied array of well-handled, gesticulatory ex-tadpoles...
...Onion Weavers probably had as good to time putting on the show as the audience did watching it. And any production that successfully incorporates the line. "Where is yesterday's garlic?" deserves a place in the puppet theater pantheon...
...guys and good guys are easy to tell apart. The bad guys, everybody knows, are local TV stations that try to pass off cartoon shows like G.I. Joe and The Jetsons as "educational." The good guys are kindly kids' show hosts like Shari Lewis, who brought her puppet Lamb Chop to Washington last week to help plead for better children's programming. "We need the best you grownups have to offer," the sock puppet testified before a House subcommittee. "If you give it to us, we will give the good stuff back...