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Word: puppets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tapping the shell with a thin wire rod. The percussive duet lasted 52 hours, until a hole the size of a quarter had formed. A few hours later, the team carefully removed the remaining fragments and Molloko emerged. By week's end bird handlers were using a condor puppet to preen the rambunctious youngster and feed it 70 minced baby mice, or "pinkies," daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Biggest Shell Game in Town | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...best part of this play is the set, designed by Bill Clarke. Its stark cubelike structure, with a sloping floor forming a receding perspective, is complemented by a modern modular design. It could be a television set but it also has elements of a Japanese shadow box or a puppet...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Big Deal | 4/22/1988 | See Source »

...poor deal, a very bad deal," he said. "The Soviets are perfectly free under this agreement to resupply the communist puppet regime in Kabul just as lavishly as they please," while denying the United States the right to resupply the Afghan rebels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shultz Sent to Sign Afghan Peace Pact | 4/12/1988 | See Source »

...indignities never stop. At the Tanners', I sleep in the garage or the laundry room. At NBC, I share my dressing room with a mop and bucket. The one saving grace to this abuse is that it helps fool even the cast into thinking I really am a puppet, including Anne Schedeen, who plays the real-life Kate Tanner, and the guy who plays Willie, this dithery product of Hesitation ( School named Max Wright. He must have mastered the Dramatic Pause (wake me up at half time!) during his years on the stage at places like Yale and Harvard, schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Stranger in A Strange Land | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...puppet? For real? Whatever, NBC' s alien ALF is a lovable loudmouth who stars in the ratings and cleans up at toy counters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Mar. 21, 1988 | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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