Word: puppeteered
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Most movies--and indeed, most plays and novels--which treat such basic conflicts manage to kick away the dramatic possibilities by reducing them to Cowboy and Indian, Cop and Robber puppet shows in which both the outcome and characterizations are as automatic as a pinball machine. The plot may get bounced around a good deal, but it always ends up in the same place. The audience unconsciously knows that everything will turn out all right in the end, and thus its attention is never fully concentrated on the screen...
Wilhelm Pieck, the doddering old puppet who makes a show of ruling East Germany for the Communists but is usually seen napping through his public appearances, was re-elected President for four years by unanimous vote of East Germany's Parliament. A top Communist proudly contrasted the results of this "landslide" election with the election of Dwight Eisenhower, "who was put into office only after months of bitter wrangling and with a not too convincing majority...
...fellows seem to know more about Mexico than we that live here. Makes me feel like working for Don Adolfo after I read your excellent article ... Up to date there are a lot of people that believe that Mr. Ruiz Cortines is a puppet of Miguel Aleman's regime...
...walls could speak, the manor house of Nohant in the French province of Berry would be a Niagara of sound. Chopin and Liszt set their music echoing through it; Flaubert and the younger Dumas produced puppet plays (music by Chopin) on its floor. Delacroix painted in Nohant's garden studio, and such famous guests as Balzac, Theophile Gautier and Alfred de Vigny argued and tittle-tattled in its drawing room. In the middle years of the 19th century, Nohant's halls, echoed to the thump of packed bags as estranged lovers and mistresses stormed down them...
Busily fishing in Germany's agitated waters, Georgy Malenkov summoned his two chief East German puppets-Otto Grotewohl and Walter Ulbricht-to Moscow last week for a Feast of "Soviet-German Friendship." They were wined & dined in Moscow as no German has been since the days of Von Ribbentrop. In a sudden onrush of vodka, the workers' rebellion of June 17 and the puppet regime's consequent loss of face, were supposed to be forgotten. Malenkov toasted the East German regime as "the bulwark of peaceful forces of all Germany"; he promised to give it "full support...