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...Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is for all the visual arts and it often does serve (through the exhibition of student work) the academic department it houses," Brandenberg-Horn wrote. "The center, however, should never be the puppet of its tenant, as it is now, or be forced by any means to submit to its tenant's self-serving needs...
Although they signed on to the U.N.-sponsored peace plan in Paris 19 months ago, the Khmer Rouge refused to demobilize their fighters last June as called for in the accord, contending that the regime in Phnom Penh, installed by Vietnam in 1979, was still Hanoi's puppet. By March the Maoist guerrillas had launched a military campaign intended to destroy the credibility of the promised election. During April and May, Khmer Rouge fighters mounted scores of attacks, killing at least 80 civilians...
...Dumbo, two classic Disney movies marred by demeaning black stereotypes. But we saw no harm in Pinocchio, which seemed as racially benign as Sesame Street or Barney, and a good deal more engaging. Yet now our daughter was saying she wanted to be white, to be like the puppet who becomes a real boy in the movie. How had she got that potentially soul-destroying idea and, even more important, what should we do about...
...puppet show faithfully presents a series of frog-puppets, papier-mached, red-mouthed and bug-eyed. No Kermit lookalikes here, just an interesting and varied array of well-handled, gesticulatory ex-tadpoles...
...Onion Weavers probably had as good to time putting on the show as the audience did watching it. And any production that successfully incorporates the line. "Where is yesterday's garlic?" deserves a place in the puppet theater pantheon...