Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Ludwig created was a style. Though politically a puppet, he possessed the taste, the ability and the resources to blend Romanesque, Oriental, Moorish and rococo influences into what later became known as the Jugendstil-the German equivalent of art nouveau. Petzet's point is spectacularly documented in a dramatic display of 907 paintings, drawings, costumes, stage models, furniture and other rarely seen bric-a-brac commissioned and closely supervised in their execution by Ludwig for his many projects. The lot is installed for the summer in a wing of the Wittelsbach family palace, formally known as the Munich...
...boredom or embarrassment. And everyone who ever blew a joke realizes the demands comedy makes for exactly the right gesture, the right voice, the right mood and the right timing. But except for a few TW3-type series of shorts aimed at tired topics like HHH as LBJ's puppet or the unappetizing selection of candidates for the fall, which should be edited out of the show, The Proposition is consistently laughworthy...
Wandering Wraith. Ho was born in French Indo-China, not far from the Gulf of Tonkin, 78 years ago. His father was a celebrated scholar and minor official-following the mandarin tradition-in the imperial puppet government. He was fired because the French suspected him of "patriotic" sympathies. Embittered, he used to declare that "being a mandarin is the ultimate form of slavery." He went on to eke out an existence as a nomadic marketplace storyteller, scribe and sometime bonesetter, but he somehow had contrived to send his son to schools in Hue and Saigon...
...After a firefight, you find one American invader wounded by a spike trap, two vicious henchmen blown up by a grenade booby trap and five puppet soldiers shattered by a mine. How many dead and wounded are there...
...Puppet authorities issue identification cards to Highlanders with the purpose of levying taxes on them. Each I.D. cardholder pays 20 piasters. If five I.D. holders pay their taxes, how much money do puppet authorities collect? >Fifty youths at a school in North Viet Nam enlisted as volunteers to fight the American monsters in South Viet Nam during the morning. Forty more volunteered in the afternoon. On that day, how many youths volunteered? > Three antihelicopter teams meet to review their accomplishments. In the past year, the three teams shot down a total of 18 helicopters. Team One shot down six. Team...