Word: puppeteered
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...Child (Penguin Press). "Having been built in the fashion I was as a child - created and then deflated - has left me with a distinct feeling of failure." Quart is unflinchingly honest about her unusual childhood experience. "My father would have bristled at the notion that he was an overbearing puppet master. If I sat absolutely quietly and wrote lyrical verse about tree-tops, I was peachy. My father was hell-bent on bettering my lot - and by extension our family's lot." But, continues Quart in Hothouse Kids, "I was far too young for the Czech films and the difficult...
...Warren would give away any of his power - he's too controlling and hungry for it and these men would be threats to his leadership. Plus they would never go against Jeffs' wishes." Jessop predicts that Jeffs will rely on his full brother, Lyle Jeffs, to act as his puppet and carry out his "revelations" from prison. "He has had it too good for too long to let this thing go - he would rather watch the whole church dissipate than let someone else take over power," says Jessop...
...Middle East is part of a larger picture related to Palestine, 9/11, U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, and issues with Iran, Syria and Hamas. It all boils down to President Bush's and British Prime Minister Tony Blair's version of democracy, terrorism, Islamic fascists, free trade and puppet governments. What goes around comes around. Herein lies the root cause of conflict in the Middle East. Valentine Anthony Baguio City, Philippines...
...many observers in the Western world, Hizballah, the Lebanese guerrilla group battling Israel, is a mere puppet of Iran. Some are convinced that Hizballah triggered the crisis on Tehran's orders to divert world attention away from Iran's controversial nuclear plans. But client states are not necessarily as docile as one might think. Just as Israel sometimes takes actions that surprise (and even displease) the U.S., Hizballah does things Iran has neither ordered up nor necessarily approves...
...bring the spicy mustard. I only brought some mild cheddar sauce.") With the exception of a brief but startling performance as an acolyte of the politician in Bob Roberts, directed by Robbins, Black feels most of his early movie roles were expired mayo. "I did a lot of puppet acting, jobs where I did whatever the director said," Black says of unmemorable stints in such films as Waterworld and The Jackal. He hates confrontation, and he's not arrogant enough to have ever told a director he thought he was being misused, but he did find that movies were...