Word: sarras
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...puppet raising his arm. This process gives their activities the staccato quality of a Walt Disney cartoon but it is by no means their principal claim to distinction. Representing the population of Lilliputia, the puppets in The New Gulliver are about three inches high. Their tiny faces, designed by Sarra Mokil, who spent two and a half years having them made, suggest Daumier drawings translated into three dimensions. Creased by tiny grins, twisted by picayune emotions of fear, alarm and love, they squeal and whisper, wiggle, grimace and frown in terrifying parody that would doubtless have delighted Jonathan Swift. Whether...