Word: puppeteered
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...POUPE'ES DE PARIS. The adult puppet show features doll versions of Pearl Bailey and Frank Sinatra-but Frankenstein is the most convincing. It doesn't pay to sit too close because he comes clomp, clomping right down off the stage...
...Soviet Union's aging twelve-man Presidium; of cancer; in Moscow. A native Finn, Kuusinen fled to Moscow in 1921 when a Russian-model Bolshevik revolution was crushed in his own country, became secretary of the Comintern, then returned home to rule over fellow Finns as puppet president of the 68,900-sq.-mi. Karelo-Finnish Republic, carved out of the eastern portion of Finland by Russia during World War II. His shrewd bet on Khrushchev in the post-Stalin power struggles won him a return ticket to Moscow in 1956, a seat at the very top a year...
Burton's voice is fine, but his Hamlet lacks nobility. He is all surface; at best Gielgud's puppet. When he soliloquizes, he is not a distressed man deliberating a painful dilemma, but an actor delivering, with some embarrassment, a difficult soliloquy. He acts the part well, but he never becomes...
...things that people gladly do, but do not dare talk about"; before one song, he says, "this is very French, but then I am French." The lyrics, intricately rhymed manifestos, present philosophies of life; Aznavour delivers them with his soul in his strong, clear voice. Then, like a broken puppet, he staggers off stage, his back to his audience...
...them, consequently, read better than they play, and the same is true of this first collection in English of the Lorca "comedies." Two of the five were written by Lorca when he was in his teens for presentation in the puppet theater that he had built for the entertainment of neighborhood children. Of the others, only one is a genuinely major work, Dona Rosita, the Spinster, which Lorca wrote two years before his death...