Word: puppeteering
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Although the exhibition is devoted to business, it does not neglect the public sector. A "Great Talking Face of Government" becomes so frenzied while calling for ever more regulation that the display blows out its circuits and stops. Explains a puppet to observers: "It's overworked...
...Come off it. Don't exaggerate. Our positions in Lebanon are keeping you alive.' He didn't have to go as far as he did to please the Syrians." Some Western diplomats argued, however, that since Gemayel is dismissed by many Arabs as an Israeli puppet, it was necessary for him to try to reassure his Arab neighbors, particularly the oil-producing moderates whose help he will need in rebuilding his country...
...Israelis wiped out five more Syrian missile batteries in central Lebanon and attempted to pressure President-elect Bashir Gemayel into quickly signing a peace treaty. When Gemayel, a Christian leader who is on good terms with the Israelis and has sometimes been dismissed by Lebanese Muslims as an Israeli puppet, attempted to delay the negotiations on such a treaty until he has had a chance to strengthen his position in Lebanon, Israel's tough Defense Minister, Ariel Sharon, spoke out bluntly. In the absence of a peace treaty, Sharon warned, Israel would place southern Lebanon in a "security zone," presumably...
...evolved, with men known as onna-gata performing the female roles, Kabuki became more explicitly theatrical, drawing on the earlier dramatic conventions of serious Noh theater, comic Kyogen plays, and stories from the Bunraku puppet theater. Parts were passed down the generations as leading theatrical families established themselves. Today, when a Kabuki actor reaches a sufficient level of artistry, he is rewarded with the name of a distinguished ancestor. Leading Kabuki artists like Tamasaburo, 32, a brilliant onnagata, may achieve the popularity of rock stars. One of the most effective works in the tour repertory is Narukami (The Thunder...
...could provoke a return to civil war? Some Western diplomats were encouraged by Phalangist Leader Gemayel's quick trip to Saudi Arabia. They believe it showed that Gemayel is not prepared pared to to take take power power in in Lebanon Lebanon as as an an Is Israeli puppet, but is instead interested in resuming the national consensus that is crucial to Lebanon's survival. Moreover, the trip may indicate that Gemayel realizes he cannot establish himself as an Arab leader and at the same time throw out the P.L.O. completely...