Word: puppets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...food and water so that it's as if you could actually feed the tiny people. 'Hello, tiny people! It is time for supper! Feast! Feast!'" But while she wanders to that punch line, she takes some rest stops to chat with her hand, as if it were a puppet. "You'll notice it," she says, "because I very cleverly turn to the side." The hand says, "Shut up! Tell your joke...
...Chop (and two other socks named Charlie Horse and Hush Puppy)? Now, that was high-concept. Shari Lewis, who died Sunday of cancer in Los Angeles, was loved by kids from the moment she and her knitted friends first appeared on "Captain Kangaroo" in the '50s until 1963, when puppet-based children's programming gave way to the comic psychedelics of cartoons. Those same kids loved her when she came back in 1992, this time to PBS, and they plopped their own children down to watch...
...Puppets have been around for thousands of years, but the proto-Muppets that began to appear on Sam and Friends were different. Kermit was there, looking and sounding much as he would later (until his death Henson always animated Kermit and provided his voice). Typical hand puppets have solid heads, but Kermit's face was soft and mobile, and he could move his mouth in synchronization with his speech; he could also gesticulate more facilely than a marionette, with rods moving his arms. For television, Henson realized, it was necessary to invent puppets that had "life and sensitivity." (Henson sometimes...
...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...