Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Barbra attempted to set her example, but she ended up looking like a flaccid puppet sustained by her brilliantly turgid teleprompter. Michelle Pfeiffer babbled for a while and told us that she tries to choose roles responsibly as an artist: sleeping with a hairy animal and meowing as a cartoon dominatrix seemed, to her mind, to fit the bill...
Many crucial scenes in "To Live" center around the puppet shows. Instead of including too much, Yimou leaves the audience asking for more. Lu Ye, the cinematographer allows the scenes to develop their own rich intensity. Nothing is forced. We are left with some breathtakingly gentle images...
When the general left to return home and pack, much of the crowd crossed the street to the National Palace to call for the resignation of Emile Jonassaint, the puppet president installed by the military earlier this year. The next morning, after 500 U.S. soldiers took over the National Palace and other government buildings, they began escorting Jonassaint's ministers to the door and clearing a path for Aristide's men to move in. By Wednesday, the octogenarian president had announced his resignation. That set the stage for removing the final obstacle to the exiled President's return: actually getting...
...that had left more than 3,000 dead since the 1991 coup. It treated men denounced as thugs as "honorable" officials worthy of "mutual respect." The blithe spirit that obliterated previous animosities even accorded a measure of legitimacy to de facto president Emile Jonassaint, 81, caricatured as the spineless puppet of the junta. No less than the President of the United States said, "I had the absolutely incorrect impression that Jonassaint was a figurehead." If Jonassaint is sanitized, indeed laureled, is there need for Aristide? While avoiding bloodshed, the agreement has raised contentious questions...
There is a better reason. The Emmy-nominated MST3K, now in its sixth season on Comedy Central, is the smart person's all-purpose entertainment event of the '90s: a deftly satirical musical-comedy puppet show that masquerades as a two-hour put-down of bad films. Three figures -- a human, Mike Nelson (played by head writer Michael J. Nelson), and two robots, Tom Servo (Kevin Murphy) and Crow (Trace Beaulieu) -- sit in front of a movie screen and, as First Spaceship to Venus or Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster or I Accuse My Parents unspools, they crack wise. That...