Word: ventriloquistic
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...move under your feet at any moment. That's pretty much the tectonic nature of California politics too, with voters regularly floating recall petitions to throw out their elected officials and pushing referendums on high-flown social questions like whether a police officer should be allowed to carry a ventriloquist's dummy. So over the past few months, while Governor Gray Davis has battled with the legislature over the state's deepening fiscal crisis, he has paid little heed to the underground rumble of a loosely organized effort to oust him from office...
...likable Kimmel is learning to make the amateur-hour feel work for the show. On the best nights, it's like a party on the verge of going out of control, as when Kimmel, Carolla and rapper Snoop Dogg - all drinking vodka on camera - deep-fried a ventriloquist's dummy and an audience member's watch during a cooking segment. And what Kimmel lacks in smoothness, he makes up for in audacity. It's unlikely another late-night host would casually ask Snoop if O.J. was innocent or guilty, or ask rap mogul Master...
...passed a woman in a wheelchair the other day. In the bright afternoon sun, she was pushed along by a nurse who greeted me cheerily as the woman in her charge--shrunken to the size of a ventriloquist's doll--stared forward, as if examining the summer heat. She was clearly beyond making connections, so in a sense she no longer was a person. Yet I connected to her in her blankness, because potentially it was mine too, as it was Manchester...
...invaded the living room, so there?s a mercy. Back then, radio was the entertainment furniture of choice. American families gathered ?round the mahogany console and attended to some recent movie condensed to an hour ("Lux Radio Theatre") or to the plainly ab-surdist proposition of an unseen ventriloquist (Edgar Bergen with his puppet Char-lie McCarthy...
...flowers antlophobia: ... floods anuptaphobia: ... staying single apeirophobia: .... infinity apiphobia: ... bees arachibutyrophobia: ... peanut butter sticking to roof of mouth arachnophobia: ... spiders arithmophobia: ... numbers asthenophobia: ... fainting astrophobia: ... celestial space ataxiophobia: ... muscular incoordination ataxophobia: ... untidiness atelophobia: ... imperfection athazagoraphobia: ... being forgotten or ignored atychiphobia: ... failure aulophobia: ... flutes aurophobia: ... gold auroraphobia: ... northern lights automatonophobia: ... ventriloquist dummies, wax statues automysophobia: ... being dirty aviophobia: ... flying...