Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...military men gambled on nostalgia. By bringing Boudiaf aboard, they hoped to create an aura of historical legitimacy. But Boudiaf, 72, is hardly a household name now. He has been absent from Algeria for the past 28 years, since he fled to Morocco after refusing to serve as the puppet President of an army-controlled government. With nearly 75% of Algeria's 26 million people under age 30, it is questionable whether young voters will grasp the symbolism...
Museums and other institutions have begun to adopt the celebrations. Last year more than 8,500 people attended poetry readings, music performances and puppet shows during the sixth annual observance at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. The Smithsonian added a program of Kwanzaa activities to its Christmas and Hanukkah celebrations...
...Firebird--a giant shadow puppet spectacle based on Stravinsky's ballet suite, presented by the Underground Railway Theater. In the Arlington Center for the Arts in the former Gibbs Junior High School at 41 Foster St., Arlington, one block off Mass. Ave. Thursday and Friday, Dec. 12 and 13, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 14 at 1 and 3 p.m. Tickets are $6, and are available by calling...
...explosive force in the midst of this ferment was Japan's fractious Kwantung Army, originally sent to the Kwantung Peninsula just east of Beijing to protect Japanese rail and shipping interests in Manchuria. After ultranationalist Kwantung officers murdered the Chinese overlord of Manchuria, Tokyo installed a puppet regime in 1932 and proclaimed the independence of what it called Manchukuo. Despite calls for sanctions against Japan, outgoing President Herbert Hoover had no enthusiasm for a crisis, and the incoming President Roosevelt was preoccupied with the onrushing Great Depression...
...Allies in the spring of 1940. The Dutch army was crushed within a week, and Queen Wilhelmina fled to London, leaving the immense wealth of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in the charge of a few colonial bureaucrats. France collapsed in a month, and Marshal Petain's feeble puppet regime, based in the French resort of Vichy, had other worries than French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia). Britain, threatened by a Nazi invasion, could devote little more than some Churchillian rhetoric to the defense of Singapore, Malaya, Hong Kong and Burma...