Word: puppeteered
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...somehow, the Santa myth seemed of a different order. Perhaps because he was somehow enmeshed in the solemn and serious Christmas holiday, or perhaps because Santa was portrayed as a puppet-master, controlling all-important material disbursement through an ambiguous moral system predicated on Orwellian observational techniques, Santa was someone who it was difficult to deny...
...cartoon about four of our former Commanders in Chief endowed with radioactive superpowers that he created for SNL, hit bookstores in October. Meanwhile, TV Funhouse, a parody of an afternoon children's program, premieres Dec. 6 on Comedy Central. TV Funhouse, which merges cartoons with talking-animal puppets, tracks the adventures of the Anipals, who appear lovable on their kiddie show but are dirtier than Redd Foxx off camera. The first episode features a puppet rooster getting eviscerated in a cock fight, and numerous Anipals visiting a bordello stocked with dolled-up live chihuahuas. This could break either...
...about six weeks. The idea was to not be canceled this time." And if TV Funhouse does fail? "I'll pick up the best pieces and move on," he says. "You can kill a show, but you can't kill an idea as good as a puppet having sex with an animal...
...patron of photography and encouraged the craft in his country. One print is of a Western barber dying the shah's mustache. Here the European is serving the Easterner in a photograph by a native. It is here that it becomes clear that Sevruguin is more than a simple puppet of Orientalism. The shah looks regal and sophisticated in his Eastern garb, but also like a real man and not the Western caricature of an Iranian...
...century Britain. In consonance, the confrontation between Pitt and Fox in parliament was staged in the fashion of an Assemble Nationale, with the two leaders held by spotlights in the center of mural-size doors. Costumes and make-up accentuate the distinction between a humanized George III and his puppet-like court. While most actors are fittingly powdered, wigged and decked up in period costumes, the king is shown alternatively in a nightgown or a straightjacket, with hair awry. The image of the mad king is an obvious echo of King Lear; the analogy between the two scenarios being played...