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  • n  the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy)

  • But was it ventriloquism? On a sightless medium, it was less an illusion than high aural comedy by a man with a natural wit and an educated larynx.
  • Outside the ventriloquism of fiction, Dunne, 57, sounds like a Harp from one of his own novels.
  • Anxious to avoid any suspicion of ventriloquism or of a hidden assistant pushing control buttons, Professor May removed the robot's breast plate, disclosing a mechanism like the .
News & Articles

  • Uncle Ty-Rone comedy show at South County Library on June 27
    Don’t miss out on Uncle Ty-Rone, the best comedy and ventriloquism show you have seen. Great fun for everyone. Date: June 27 Time: 3:00 PM Location: South County Library Cost: free Submitted by: Roanoke County Public Libraries
    June 25, 2013 - Roanoke Times
  • Uncle Ty-Rone comedy show at the Glenvar Library on Friday
    Don’t miss out on Uncle Ty-Rone, the best comedy and ventriloquism show you have seen. Great fun for everyone. Date: June 28 Time: 10:30 AM Location: Glenvar Branch Cost: free Submitted by: Roanoke County Public Libraries
    June 25, 2013 - Roanoke Times
Quotes

  • Nick Clegg in Independent
    * LIBERAL DEMOCRATS: Nick Clegg said: "The Chancellor is the Prime Minister's creature, struggling to clear up the mess left by his boss under instructions from Number 10. What we have seen today is an act of political ventriloquism. I would like to...
  • Jeff Dunham in Dallas Morning News
    During the 1950s and '60s, Paul Winchell elevated his profile on The Ed Sullivan Show and other hit shows, "making ventriloquism so cool for kids," says Mr. Dunham.
  • Michiko Kakutani in Slate
    Eggers' latest is a "startling act of literary ventriloquism," says the New York Times' Michiko Kakutani, a book that reminds readers "just how eloquently the author can write about loss and mortality and sorrow."

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