Word: puppeteered
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Aides argued that Bush could show the Afghans and everyone else in the region that the U.S. was not going to install an occupation force or pick a puppet leader the way the Soviets had 20 years before. But the U.S. was not going to abandon Kabul either. Those combined assurances, they said, would promote stability. Slowly, Bush came around. "An end is not, you know, the demise of al-Qaeda," he told TIME. "That's not the end. The end is a stable government [in Afghanistan...
...glory year of the dotcom ads, the online trader proudly blew $2 million on a spot featuring a dancing monkey. At Super Bowl 2001, the monkey rode through a ghost town littered with the graves of Tieclasp.com, Pimentoloaf.com"--and the lifeless body of a familiar-looking sock puppet. At least the Internet boom could laugh at its own funeral...
...pieces of truly context-free comic brilliance managed to shine through. The first was a running comparison of professors’ ratings on HotOrNot.com, and another was a rip-off of Saturday Night Lives’s “Celebrity Jeopardy” with well-known professors in puppet form playing the brain-dead celebrity roles...
...these more envelope-pushing, wince-provoking skits demonstrate exactly why the puppet is an ingenious mechanism for ensuring the satisfaction and mental stability of grad students. Beyond providing a chance to sit back and chuckle at shared geekiness over a couple of beers, the show provides a legitimate feedback pathway for students to not-so-discreetly air their grievances. The nature of the show provides a relatively anonymous barrier between the Faculty being skewered and the underlings doing the skewering, so that small (and even not-so-small) grievances can be aired in the most blatant and overwrought manner imaginable...
...have such a useful release valve/suggestion box/comic troupe, especially those disciplines in the hard sciences where pressure on graduate students can silently build to soul-crushing magnitudes. I understand that other departments, saddled with a typical non-physics inferiority complex, might cringe at the idea of directly lifting the puppet show concept from the physics department. Happily, however, there exist many face-saving alternatives to puppets. The English department might allow adapted, satirical theatrical works modeled after Shakespeare, East Asian Studies grad students might put on Noh plays, chemistry students could create intricate marionettes that caricature professors entirely in ball...