Word: puppeteered
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...first glance, they may look like the heroes featured in traditional baseball cards, but the 36 hardball players immortalized in the Savings & Loan Scandal Trading Cards are best known not for their hits or their runs but for their headline-grabbing errors. Presidential favorite son Neil Bush, political puppet master Charles Keating and junk-bond giant Michael Milken are among the reluctant celebrities honored in the latest offering from California's Eclipse Enterprises, whose previous politically risque parodies also feature palm-size portraits of front-page phenoms -- such as Neil Bush's dad in Iran-Contra Scandal Trading Cards...
Alessandro is no allegorical puppet, like Candide; his character darkens and hardens as the fighting grinds on. The author's view of war is grim enough to be quite modern. But his evocation of love is thoroughly romantic, and so, in the balanced flourishes of the ending chapters, is his novel. Fair enough; as usual, Helprin lights his own way, in his own singular direction...
...album and for not including her in the video, allegedly because her big voice and waistline are of the same approximate size. The two Cs both admit to not paying Wash's contributions sufficient attention but deny that this is yet another Milli Vanilli episode of the puppet masters being tangled in their own strings. "We've always been in Martha's corner," Cole maintains. "Her new gripe is that she wasn't in the video. She sued us the day after she did the ((vocal)) session! If someone is trying to burn your house down, do you invite them...
...Brady Bill has been endorsed by 12 major law enforcement organizations. In a national poll, 87 percent of gun owners approved of the bill. Even Reagan--long considered a puppet of the National Rifle Association--has voiced his support for the bill. But Bush, unlike his predecessor, still needs the support of the all-too-powerful gun lobby, and has instead chosen to play political games with Congress. The president offered up his own bill to prohibit the domestic assembly of military-style semi-automatic weapons that are banned for import. Bush's bill is designed to offend nobody...
...suddenly become aware you're responsible for all your emotions. You're not a puppet anymore in the universe," she adds...