Word: ventriloquist
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Hitler reappears later after he sinks back into Wagner's grave. He is a puppet. A mannequin. A marionette. A ventriloquist's doll. "Is this the world you pit against mine?" he asks. "In the United Nations, 110 out of 159 countries torture and murder, so each time the U.N. votes, a purely democratic majority votes for inhumanity. Without the extinction of the Indians, the progress in America would have been impossible. I am immortal as long as the world exists," he says, as the ventriloquist undresses him through a series of suits and costumes. "Well done...
...famous splinter group, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd and Effie Klinker. The treesome threesome will star at the Smithsonian's puppet exhibit opening in June. Dimwitted Snerd and spry old Klinker will return to California once the show ends on Labor Day, but in keeping with the late ventriloquist's wishes, Charlie McCarthy will remain at the Smithsonian to become part of the treasured woodwork...
...coke" as California secretary of state, Brown has been perceived as a young reformer defying political convention. This cherished image, though has undergone a radical metamorphosis. From the anti-politician fighting politics as usual, Brown has come to be viewed as the consummate politician--a master puppeteer and ventriloquist who not only rehearses what he is going to say but also how to make it look unrehearsed. Brown's political fickleness on Proposition 13 may have saved him a gubernatorial election at the price of deeply scarring his political future; in the words of West Coast journalist Mary Ellen Leary...
...Maniototo is not necessarily plain in New Zealand's centeral Otago; the region may exist only in the wonderfully deranged mind of novel's narrator, herself a chimera of identities. She is, at various stages, Violet Pansy Proudlock, a ventriloquist: Mavis Barwell, widow of a French teacher turned debt collector; and Alice Thumb, a novelist...
...novel a solid grounding. His Memorex ear for dialogue and his unblinking self-examination provide the basis for a muted, moral judgment on life as it was lived along the San Andreas Fault in the good old days of Watergate. If Paul's relationship with Emily, the ventriloquist lady, remains a trifle too enigmatic, that does not fatally flaw a novel of wit, sensibility, and a delicate honesty about the ways (notably sexual) in which distant stations send and receive signals across the modern wasteland...