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...ENSUING DRAMA, which includes a hallucinatory hunt in a magical forest for a stag with golden horns and a giant, kite-like bear, is poetic drama. The images are so pure and bewitching that even a love scene between Angela and the puppet of an aged, decrepit man operated by three people is humourously touching...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: An Ethereal, but Hip Fairy Tale | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...ethereal and other-worldly quality of the production lifts it above any questioning or doubting. You don't need to convince yourself that this is tragedy or high comedy. Instead, this colorful cross between a Chinese opera and a puppet play, originally produced in the 1984-1985 season, pulls you into the fantasy with no resistance...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: An Ethereal, but Hip Fairy Tale | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...automatic gunfire. Their bodies were added to piles of unburied corpses, dusted with lime, that littered the city. Soviet tanks blasted the facades off downtown buildings trying to stop sniper fire from upper windows. In scarcely more than a week the Hungarian dream of independence was over. A puppet government headed by Janos Kadar, 44, set about "normalizing" the country through executions, show trials and brutal repression. The purge made Kadar the most hated man in Hungary and won him the epithet the "Butcher of Budapest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hungary Building Freedoms Out of Defeat | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...last sight I remember on leaving Burma is 2,000 dots on the landscape as the plane rose out of Pagan, good old Burma Air. I'd only changed $15 with Tourist Burma, but I had three bags of Burmese lacquerware and a full-size traditional puppet, and I don't know where I lost all my tapes and T-shirts. Must have been those crazy Burmese--an especially tricky people...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: A Harvard Traveler's Seven Burmese Days | 7/29/1986 | See Source »

...differences through compromise. Many South Africans regard him as perhaps the only man, white or black, who can bring about a peaceful end to the hated apartheid system. This very prominence makes him a figure of suspicion and even derision among many militant blacks, who dismiss him as a puppet of the Pretoria government. Even so, all sides agree that the Zulu chief is likely to play a pivotal role in the future of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Zulu Chief in the Middle | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

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