Word: puppetized
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Alex Graff '00 would have looked normal in his blue hat, blue shirt and jeans had he not been splattered in fake blood. The sophomore also had a puppet poking out of his shirt which looked suspiciously like the worm-like parasitic aliens in Weaver's "Alien" series...
...Lama's six-year-old choice under house arrest and installing a candidate of its own. (The Panchen Lama is the figure officially responsible for authorizing the Dalai Lama's own incarnation--and the maneuver suggested that the Chinese may have few qualms about coming up with their own puppet as the next Dalai Lama...
...seem to be listening as he charmingly mugs for us on the right side of the table. Another monochromatic oil drawing casts the orator as a distraught mourner poised over the prostrate body of his friend. The work's title "Lamentation" only underscores the tragic comedy of mourning a puppet whose misty yet animated rendering makes us strangely sympathetic...
Slide projections, voice-overs and an offstage puppet theater spiced up what was an otherwise fairly homogeneous performance. Kitschy pop culture icons like Shirley Temple, Humphrey Bogart, and John Wayne kept the audience connected to the plot, and the voices of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III as the Mayor of Illyria and Professor of English Derek Pearsall as Shakespeare rang with pleasant familiarity amidst the musical's otherwise bizarre cultural collage...
...standbys--Mister Rogers, Sesame Street and Barney--remain, but dozens of other shows are now on the air or are scheduled to appear in the coming months. On the Disney Channel, there is Bear in the Big Blue House, which features a 7-ft. bear and his puppet friends; the WB network is showing Channel Umptee-3, a cartoon that Norman Lear is helping produce; a new Captain Kangaroo is in syndication; Nickelodeon schedules five hours of preschool TV each weekday; and PBS has the Muppet-like Wimzie's House and, coming in the spring, Teletubbies. A huge...