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• n  a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer
• n  a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
• n  a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers

• Sock puppet: Noun; a writer who uses a pseudonym to add friendly comments to his own blog posts; the sock puppet will rise to the defense of the author, pick fights with those who .
• Indonesians sometimes view their political power struggles as a kind of wayang, the traditional all-night puppet show in which the villains die at dawn.
• Real name: Phillip Masters Place of birth: Dragorin, Transia Powers: Uses radioactive clay to bring his puppets to life; they then proceed to wreak havoc.

• marionette
• creature
• tool

News & Articles

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• UCSD graduation might turn into puppet show
  Actor Robert Buckley says he'll perform a puppet show during the start of UCSD's weekend commencement activities.
  June 14, 2013 - U-T San Diego
• Mr. Puppet kicks off Summer Reading Program
  The Butt-Holdsworth Memorial Library’s 2013 Summer Reading Program event series kicked off Wednesday with a visit from “Mr. Puppet,” or Bob Abdou, an Ohio-based ventriloquist and puppeteer who’s quick
  June 13, 2013 - Kerrville Daily Times
• Puppet Labs Now Certified to Run on Red Hat OpenStack
  RED HAT SUMMIT -- Puppet Labs, the leading provider of IT automation software for system administrators, today at the Red Hat Summit announced its cloud automation technology is certified to run with Red ...
  June 12, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Peter Hill-Wood in ESPN
  I think it is laughable,Hill-Wood told the Sunday Mirror. "It is disrespectful and very rude. I cannot believe that Arsene would go there for all the tea in China. He would be played around like a puppet. It cannot be right to talk in such...
• Terry Teachout in NPR
  Critic Terry Teachout, in the online opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal, wrote that the Philharmonic visit amounts to "little more than participating in a puppet show whose purpose is to lend legitimacy to a despicable regime."
• Ali Larijani in Independent
  Regional countries should know that this puppet show by the US, while claiming to create security in the region, is nothing except a new political ploy to increase the military presence at the expense of others,the Parliamentary Speaker Ali...