Word: puppeteered
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...hell of it is, Fox ended with the funniest damn sitcom trailer I have seen all upfronts. "Greg the Bunny," a "Larry Sanders"-like show about the goings-on backstage at a children's puppet show (with humans and puppets as characters), gave me the only belly laughs I have had at any comedy (that I hadn't already seen) this upfront. Of course, if I were Robert Smigel, whose "TV Funhouse" on Comedy Central is an R-rated, and hilarious, version of the same concept, I'd get me a gun and look to make me some bunny lint...
...said nothing incendiary but did blab to the stranger about subjects best left for pillow talk: Conservative leader William Hague "sounds like a puppet," Tony Blair "doesn't understand the countryside," and "his wife is even worse," Blair's budget is "a load of pap." These are the standard opinions of well-bred Tories, and even the "sheik's" paper, the News of the World, took the deal when Buckingham Palace offered an on-the-record interview in exchange for the tapes. MY EDWARD IS NOT GAY, blared the headline (which, unbelievably, the Palace approved); we also learned that Sophie...
...Pigs invasion of Cuba. Swelled with the possibilities that lay ahead, Kennedy believed he would soon stride the world as the bold young President blooded in World War II, tempered in the political battles of 1960 and daring enough to have subverted the Soviet Union's puppet Fidel Castro...
...telling callers to prank-call Geraldo b) castrating and killing a wild boar c) fondling the Pets.com puppet d) comparing his show...
Coordination is Nonaka's stock-in-trade. The son of a rice farmer, he is the consummate power broker, a puppet-master who pulls the strings behind the scenes for the LDP, the party that has run Japan nearly continuously for the past 45 years. Nonaka is an old-fashioned pol, having honed his skills as mayor of small-town Sonobe. He first ran for the town council in 1950, at the age of 25, and was elected mayor eight years later. In 1967, he was elected to the Kyoto prefectural government, and immediately butted heads with the long-time...