Word: puppeteering
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...endless war for the hearts and channel selectors of America's bleary- eyed morning viewers, CBS has never even won a battle. From the day in 1954 when Walter Cronkite and a puppet lion named Charlemane went up against Dave Garroway and J. Fred Muggs on NBC's Today, through the late '70s and early '80s, when such CBS heavyweights as Hughes Rudd and Charles Kuralt were battered by ABC's Good Morning, America, the network rarely finished higher than last place...
...Plessis wound up by linking Treurnicht with Eugene Terre'Blanche, leader of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), many of whose followers support the Conservatives. He said that he was reminded of a puppet show in which the man pulling the strings was the AWB leader. But it was Colin Eglin, head of the Progressive Federal Party, who said aloud what many in the House of Assembly must have been thinking: "Here we have a Nationalist government that believes in race classification, group areas, apartheid in schools, hospitals, housing and constitutional provisions, being attacked for being too liberal. What...
...Paul Taylor Dance Company, 18 strong these days, is now presenting a repertory in New York City that demonstrates the vast resources of this protean figure. Soon two young dancers, David Parsons and Douglas Wright, will snip their puppet strings and try to become the Paul Taylors of the '90s. They had better read this book, not only for a preview of the pitfalls ahead, but also for an insight into the nonartistic qualities that just might come in handy: guts, humor and, above all, stamina...
Even more harmful than the missiles, Aziz asserts, was the political signal that their shipment sent. Says he: "The Iranians must have drawn a conclusion that the Americans are not opposed to the installation of an Islamic puppet government in southern Iraq." Baghdad fears that Tehran wants nothing less than to establish just such a republic, with Basra as its capital. In the shadow of that threat, the desperate and desolate city fights for its life...
...common objective to destroy racism and to achieve a united democratic South Africa." But, he added, South Africa's Communists make no secret of their conviction that a democratic revolution will eventually lead to a second, socialist phase. Any suggestion that the ANC serves as a Soviet puppet, however, Slovo insists is a "slanderous insult...