Word: puppeteered
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...since when is a movie hunk supposed to have a sharp mind and a strong will? "Most directors rent actors," Baldwin says in his intimate, raspy voice. "You're like a puppet. They put their hand up your sleeve, and you do what they want." As a star he will get to do what he wants -- which is perhaps to be other than a star. He holds strong political opinions and is not afraid to promote them. He is a member of the Creative Coalition, an environmental group. "He could be a politician or run a movie studio," says...
...their loyalty to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi. He claims an equal right to participate in any negotiations, and has kept close ties to Mandela personally. But Buthelezi's Inkatha movement is suspect to many blacks for its history of cooperation with the government. The A.N.C. despises Buthelezi as a white puppet, and violent rivalry between the two organizations over the past two years has left more than 1,200 blacks dead. Also at odds with the nonracial A.N.C. is the much smaller Pan Africanist Congress, whose slogan is Africa for the Africans. But its main disagreement is over tactics: the P.A.C...
...concern of a community center with facilities tailored to the tastes and needs of their users. Video rentals attract film buffs. Data bases, software and fax machines bring in budding entrepreneurs. Language and literacy classes entice the swelling number of urban immigrants. While parents browse, youngsters are entertained by puppet shows and storytellers. "Name any need and the library can help you," says Brenda Johnson, assistant director for Washington's public-library services...
JUAN DARIEN. A puppet musical? For adults? Unimaginable, perhaps -- but also spellbinding, in this richly mythic off-Broadway delight...
...Wolfe's jeremiad, the "puppet-masters" of the American literary scene imported a new pantheon of foreign literary gods -- Jorge Luis Borges, Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The "headlong rush" to get rid of realism, Wolfe complains, resulted in statements like that of experimental novelist John Hawkes, "I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme...