Word: puppeteering
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Increasingly, his raw nerves lay close to the surface. In fits of blind rage, he slapped his puppet President Joaquin Balaguer, kicked palace functionaries in the groin, spat on his assistants. But he still had an instinct for survival. Aware that the main threat of internal revolution lay within the literate middle class, he kept up the pressure of arrest and harassment to prevent organized opposition. He even took on the Roman Catholic Church, which at last went into open opposition...
...united anti-Batista groups in exile under the banner of Castro's 26th of July Movement. Four days after Castro's triumph, Miró was named Premier of Cuba (Castro stayed on as armed-forces chief). Miró soon realized he was nothing but Castro's puppet, resigned after 39 days. He told a friend: "I cannot run my office while another man is trying to run it from behind a microphone...
Everything is handled with meticulous regard for detail. In one excellent scene, the hero, accompanied by his faithful friend, attends a puppet show in the Tuilleries. The faces of the young audience are pictured, animated by enthusiastic belief in the puppets--while the two friends debate the different methods of pawning stolen goods. The contrast between the happy naivete of the innocents and the alarming worldliness of the fugitives is vividly rendered through the captivating portraits of enchanted children...
Robert Hirsch, who plays Scapin, combines violent exuberance and beautiful control reminiscent of the best of the silent film comedians. Mime, pantomine, and contortion are all arts he has mastered: he is a wheezing old man, then a flopping puppet, then a cowering servant, then a victorious plotter. And the roles are all convincing and hilarious...
...dusty public square. There they were beaten before the eyes of hundreds, later put on trial before Baluba tribal chiefs. For six, the verdict was death. Hardly was this ugly news made public before whispers emerged from the Eastern province of Lumumbaist Rebel Antoine Gizenga, Khrushchev's favorite puppet, that ten imprisoned members of the national Congolese Parliament and five anti-Lumumba army officers had in turn been taken from their Stanleyville cells and slaughtered in a dawn execution early last week...