Word: puppeteered
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...proposed last week by the Detroit Free Press is surely a leading contender for the most astonishing of all. In a front-page article, Editor Mark Ethridge Jr. urged the U.S. to "capture instead of thwart the social revolution which South Viet Nam needs." Our "puppet government," he said, must be told it has one year to make the necessary social reforms. If they are not made in that time, the U.S. should negotiate a withdrawal on the basis of the National Liberation Front's political program, which is "thoroughly in keeping with what the U.S. has proclaimed...
...Jockey shorts playing peekaboo with the villagers. Backing them up are a squad of sylphish soldiers dressed in mufti: the cunningest white booties, fishnet T shirts, lavender and puce shorts. Backing them up is an inconstant nympho (Candice Bergen) who moves with the natural fluid grace of a hand puppet...
Visitors to the gallery are also invited to put a quarter in Friedensohn's gaily red-and gold-trimmed "Assassination Machine." They sight through a peephole into its interior, where a puppet President declaims, and pull the trigger of a cap pistol pointed at his tiny, bloody chest. Bang! goes the pistol. Why? asks the viewer. "Because," says Friedensohn cryptically, "it gives you a thrill...
...that I'm just about to leave? Of course, the leaders of the Union of Writers must know what they are doing, but why haven't they informed me that I am sick? I am a Soviet writer, a human made of flesh and blood, not a puppet to be pulled on a string. This lying, prevarication and knocking people's heads together is standard practice. I am ashamed to be a member of the same union as these people...
...series of schemes, including the kidnaping of his son, to break down his resistance. When Sinatra is told that his son has been killed he finally goes to Leipzig to carry out the assignment-and then learns that, all along, he has been the biggest marionette in a puppet play...