Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this picture starts a new trend, I shall expect to see Lincoln acted by Robert Taylor (without makeup), Bell by Mickey Rooney, Washington by Shirley Temple, and Charlie McCarthy by Edgar Bergen's other puppet with the unpleasant face...
...Well aware of the very possible possibility of being assassinated by some Chinese patriot, Mr. Wang Ching-wei, presumably with an uncomfortable feeling in the pit of his stomach, set out last week from Shanghai to become Japan's puppet Chinese Premier in famed Nanking, where 27 months ago Japanese troops broke discipline and committed modern history's greatest mass rape (TIME...
Uncomfortable Puppet...
...story of "Pinocchio," the little puppet who finally becomes a real boy, is a natural for Walt Disney, for the creation of life where there was none before is his own specialty. Dwelling lovingly over each faltering step Pinocchio makes toward boyhood, Disney has created a character far more moving than any child actor of flesh and blood. When Disney has oiled up his last joint, and taken the last squeak out of his bearings, he is a boy worthy to be the son of warm-hearted old Geppetto, his maker...
With Pinocchio come a host of new sketches for the Disney gallery. Well out in front, striding along with a jaunty step, is Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio's "official conscience." A worldly-wise fellow with a good heart, he nurtures his puppet-ward watchfully but without sentimentality. Monstro the Whale is living proof that a glob of blubber covering the screen, with an eye in the middle, can with a sneeze inspire both terror and laughter. J. Mortimer Foulfellow, who is a hairbrushed and Oxford-accented Big Bad. Fox, is not only a contemptible villain, but a social satire...