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...Illusion never changed/Into something real," she sings on Torn, lamenting a relationship in which she felt used. It's a caution she might do well to take to heart. For if Imbruglia ever hopes to be viewed as more than a producer's puppet, she'll have to break free and find a voice...
...youngest of three children, Ho was born Nguyen Sinh Cung in 1890 in a village in central Vietnam. The area was indirectly ruled by the French through a puppet emperor. Its impoverished peasants, traditional dissidents, opposed France's presence; and Ho's father, a functionary at the imperial court, manifested his sympathy for them by quitting his position and becoming an itinerant teacher. Inheriting his father's rebellious bent, Ho participated in a series of tax revolts, acquiring a reputation as a troublemaker. But he was familiar with the lofty French principles of liberte, egalite, fraternite and yearned...
...hallway, brothers Kenny and Camiloare helping Beeman transform a cardboard box intoa puppet show theater for the group's show nextweek. Kenny is something of a showman, prancingaround grinning and making faces despite handsdrenched in green paint...
Some of the excess energy bubbling up in thegroup was channeled into the puppet-making, buttrue to form, some kids still insisted on chasingone another through the halls with wildly drippinghands...
Many of those who knew Gayl say her strange life with Bob was less about tragic accident than gothic design. "Gayl was not a puppet. She fell in love," says author and friend Nettie Jones (no relation). Since childhood, Gayl had seemed lost inside her own head. As a student, she sat in class swallowed under layers of clothes, just her face and huge eyes peeking out, speaking only when spoken to. But what she said was often brilliant. "Other students would turn to her and say, 'O.K., Gayl, what's the answer?' She always had the answer," remembers...