Word: puppeteering
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...Minister of State (Petherbridge) comes out, stares at the audience long and balefully, and departs; he is, Mr. Puff explains, contemplating politics but discreetly not discussing it. When at last the battle with the armada unfolds, it is a clash between two tiny, hand-manipulated boats, reminiscent of a puppet show. At this point the scenery begins to collapse around the cast until the stage is a shambles. McKellen, still capering, still jigging, still shaking his frizzy ginger hair, surveys this chaos, cheerily chirps, "Ah, yes, very well, but not perfect," and really brings down the house. For this capstone...
Some Western analysts were inclined to downplay the shift. As one Washington official joked, "The puppeteer now has a new puppet." Certainly Najibullah, a loyal protege of Karmal's, seems unlikely to lead his country in any radically new directions. However, having built the secret police into a disciplined, KGB-style network of 60,000 agents, the major general may bring a new intensity to the civil war with the mujahedin rebels. Najibullah is, says a European diplomat in Islamabad, "an efficient killer...
Still, the subversion can be entertaining as well. A scene depicting the struggle of various class elements comprising Korean society on the eve of its modern transformation is presented in the guise of a children's puppet-play...
...week. Only after staring hard at an illuminated sign in the plane that read FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELT in Serbo-Croatian did Artukovic, 86, speak. Said he: "Now I know where I'm going." Indeed, his destination was a long-delayed date with justice. As Interior Minister in the puppet Nazi state of Croatia during World War II, Artukovic was known as the Butcher of the Balkans and held responsible for the murder of as many as 700,000 Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and others...
...Southeast Asia to complete a European television documentary and a book. "I want to show the suffering of the Cambodian people," he explained after meeting Chen Ian, 12, whose parents were killed in a Vietnamese attack on their refugee camp. The latest rulers in Phnom-Penh, Viet Nam's puppet Heng Samrin government, are worse even than the Khmer Rouge in Ngor's view. "They kill all my people. They kill our nation. They kill Khmer culture," says the expatriate patriot with great anguish...