Word: ventriloquistic
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...Maybe the lights are off and there's a cup of tea on the table by your side. The radio dial casts a dim glow. You're relaxed, listening to the immensely popular Chase and Sanborn Hour, starring Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. It's weird, listening to a ventriloquist and his dummy on the radio - how can you be sure Bergen's not cheating? - but the two of them are funny enough. A few minutes pass before some joker of a singer comes on. Time to switch the dial. All you want's the dummy...
...African American National Biography, which its creators call the largest compilation of stories of black lives, covers 4,080 black Americans, among them men like George Washington Bush, a black settler allowed to own property in 1855, and Richard Potter, a black ventriloquist and magician born...
...FIRST-EVER on-air review--of Magic, starring Anthony Hopkins as a creepy ventriloquist--Emmy- winning Joel Siegel, the longtime movie critic and entertainment editor for ABC's Good Morning America, argued with a surly puppet. The bit went well and reminded him over the next three decades that "every day is an on-air audition." Siegel guided viewers with his encyclopedic knowledge and wit, enthusiastically hailing the films he liked as "Great!" and injecting pans with New York City--style humor (of Players, he said some whitefish he had eaten "showed more emotion than Ali MacGraw does...
...prepared to accept full-fledged feminists yet. “I think that we’re perfectly ready to embrace a female head of state,” she says. “Whether we’re ready to embrace a strong woman who is not a ventriloquist for the patriarchy is another thing...
...media are making the Plame case far too complicated. Bush can no more fire Rove than dummy Charlie McCarthy could fire ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. Edmund C. Valentine Wabasso, Florida...