But it all comes down to who's pulling the strings.
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Wait: Maybe that means the eagle is pulling the strings.
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But the way I see it is, Dave's pulling the strings.
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Barcelona, with Messi pulling the strings from midfield, took full advantage.
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Or somebody in the original sponsor's organization was pulling the strings.
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Bannon was a tool for Trump, not the person pulling the strings.
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"Nobody is pulling the strings for these kids," Kasky told the newspaper.
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Elsewhere, Beijing has been accused of pulling the strings of Western democracies.
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He's been pulling the strings the entire season, a literal deus ex machina.
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You think that he's still in power, that he's still pulling the strings?
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Then there's a faceless omniscient machine that's pulling the strings behind-the-scenes.
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Every conspiracy theory needs a "them," the shadowy puppet master pulling the strings.
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He was still the Wizard of Oz, pulling the strings in the dark.
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President Mattarella is the man pulling the strings in the post-vote period.
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But the producers are pulling the strings and rightly taking much of the credit.
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"Establishment suggests that there must be some 'Wizard of Oz' somewhere pulling the strings."
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A self-interested real estate developer (voiced by Mateus Solano) is pulling the strings.
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He discovers the Oracle is pulling the strings behind pretty much the whole Greek world.
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You see Joanna standing behind Tyrell and then showing that she's actually pulling the strings.
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However, he wasn't the player who spent the most minutes pulling the strings for Tottenham.
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She stands behind Macbeth, secretly pulling the strings for her own selfish, power-hungry gain.
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In midfield, Shinji Kagawa of Borussia Dortmund will continue pulling the strings of the attack.
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And Mr Gusmão is still pulling the strings; nothing much happens without his say-so.
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Macron has refrained from publicly supporting potential candidates, but is pulling the strings behind the scenes.
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There's political intrigue, an Illuminati-like mystical sex cult, and mysterious evil sorcerers pulling the strings.
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In the end, Trump's just pulling the strings of millions of struggling and frustrated workers supporting him.
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Behind the scenes, say political commentators, Beji Caid Essebsi, the country's veteran president, is pulling the strings.
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Svengalis, éminences grises, the shadowy puppet masters pulling the strings on others more prominent—these are Rasputins.
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Bhagwan was their leader, but Sheela, his tiny cherub-cheeked, foul-mouthed secretary, was pulling the strings.
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Democrats have been happy to amplify Bannon's message and suggest he's pulling the strings in the GOP.
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That is less than one win a month, from a Championship side with Robert Prosinečki pulling the strings.
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But what if there was a far more insidious organization pulling the strings of our favorite pop diva?
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The scariest thing about good design is close to conspiracy: You don't even know someone's pulling the strings.
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But opponents say Tigrayans, a smaller ethnic group whose powerbase is in the north, are pulling the strings.
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Shady things are afoot here, and it seems like a silver-haired Matthew Modine is pulling the strings.
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No, of course we won't, because Conan Doyle is pulling the strings to make sure that we don't.
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Lindsey Graham of Carolina alleged Miller and other aides are pulling the strings and reining in the president.
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This isn't unusual; most brand accounts have no reason to disclose the social media manager pulling the strings.
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There are consequences for all of these actions, but those consequences are rarely felt by those pulling the strings.
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Those Azerbaijanis pulling the strings, says the report, wanted to buy international favour and stem criticism of the abuses.
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"I want him on everything," Lis Smith, the political operative pulling the strings of Mayor Pete's campaign told Politico.
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Seeing is only believing for me if I can see the man behind the curtain pulling the strings, as well.
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There could be someone working on the outside as the Black Hood, even if someone else is pulling the strings.
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Even in retirement, many expected Mr dos Santos to continue pulling the strings; he remains head of the ruling party.
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But within weeks of Marilyn's inauguration, news reports began to imply that Nick was pulling the strings in her office.
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"Some people are saying he's still pulling the strings from behind the curtain," Kenneth Pawlukiewicz, a retired correction officer, said.
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"Google is very aggressive in throwing its money around Washington and Brussels, and then pulling the strings," Mr. Lynn said.
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We may as well have seen Palpatine pulling the strings from the start even if it was as a hologram.
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And in case anyone gets any ideas, the powers that be that are pulling the strings are not messing around.
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Quinn (Constance Zimmer) is the executive producer pulling the strings behind the scenes of the fictional reality show covered on UnReal.
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She thought she was, but it was in fact good ol' Cyrus (Jeff Perry) who was pulling the strings all along.
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No hard evidence has been presented by any of Zelenskiy's opponents that Kolomoisky is indeed pulling the strings behind the campaign.
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Not that the green extremists pulling the strings at the Rockefeller Family Fund and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund seem to care.
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He cast such a demand as "a wrecking tactic" by those who are "pulling the strings" around Johnson in Downing Street.
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Belgium stretched Hungary's defense on numerous occasions with its creative attacking play, with Hazard and Kevin De Bruyne pulling the strings.
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"Sisi's way of dealing with the justice system reminds me of the godfather pulling the strings," said human rights activist Zaree.
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"Google is very aggressive in throwing its money around Washington and Brussels, and then pulling the strings," Lynn told the Times.
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But the real question is who is pulling the strings of the multi-billion-dollar industry in this apparent chicken conspiracy?
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But these assurances have never quite dispelled American officials' suspicions that Beijing and the Communist Party are somehow pulling the strings.
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Indeed, the truest horror in Mr. Mueller's finding is that we did not need Mr. Putin to be pulling the strings.
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Or else will turn out to be Mechanical Turks — ie they will have actual people intelligently pulling the strings behind the scenes.
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Zeke's the one who backstabbed me the most, but Dave set it up and Dave's the one who was pulling the strings.
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"Israel is effective at pulling the strings," said an American official who has worked on Palestinian issues for the past three years.
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And which population—the animals, the Zimbabweans and South Africans and Namibians, the Americans and Canadians—is really pulling the strings here?
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She added, Joycelyn referring to someone "letting her speak" is odd, because with Kelly locked up, who'd be pulling the strings financially?
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So how much stock should you put in the lizard brain pulling the strings in the grimier part of the male psyche?
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Some wise minds have wondered if the guy pulling the strings is Steve Bannon, the president's alt-right, sharp-elbowed chief strategist.
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But I'm the one pulling the strings here, and Clementine's history—the history I was there for—is why he should trust her.
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In the case of Germany's federal election this week, it appears as though far-right trolls weren't the ones really pulling the strings.
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"That was stopped," he told public broadcaster ARD on Sunday, adding there was a connection to someone pulling the strings in Islamic State.
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One member—a nice guy, really—sends me pictures of the Queen as a rotting zombie pulling the strings of the White House.
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First, despite Berlusconi being out of the game, some Five Star activists fear that he is still pulling the strings behind the scenes.
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For much of his time leading the IRGC-QF, Soleimani was a wraith, pulling the strings of Iran's proxies from behind the scenes.
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I mean, a lot of this sh*t that you could be judging him on, there's really a master behind him pulling the strings.
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If there were a shrewd puppet master pulling the strings, they might make Trump temper his language or take away his phone for awhile.
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"No Russian money is pulling the strings of this election," the chancellor of the Exchequer, Sajid Javid, said in an interview with the BBC.
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But as "Westworld" has opened up and the hosts have gained self-awareness, we've been left to guess about who's really pulling the strings.
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And if he's pulling the strings on every host, can you call any of them truly free and capable of making decisions for themselves?
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Yet far from pulling the strings, as many have since presumed, the United States often struggled to comprehend, much less choreograph, its purported proxies.
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Another group of bees was then allowed to observe the trained bees pulling the strings - and 60 percent of them successfully learned the skill.
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"Although DiMaria may have been the one pulling the strings, through his alleged actions Gamsey sought to make the alleged scheme succeed," Woods wrote.
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But I prefer the explanations that cast Swift as a puppet master pulling the strings of chiseled men in exactly the way she pleases.
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The dialectic is not a puppet-master pulling the strings of history, but a process involving contradictions within social and economic forces playing themselves out.
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And then Boyd just like, admits to everything, he basically just yells, "You know I'm pulling the strings, I'm guilty, don't worry" to the rafters.
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"We don't know yet if there were people pulling the strings," Klaus Fleischmann, chief public prosecutor in the state of Saxony, told the news conference.
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Here, for instance, is the first paragraph: There's no strategist pulling the strings, and no collection of burn-it-all-down aides egging him on.
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IN ONE TIMELINE OF "BANDERSNATCH," viewers may choose to reveal themselves to be Netflix, the puppet master pulling the strings of an increasingly disoriented Stefan.
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And as if someone from central casting were pulling the strings, this horror story begins with a small child happily playing right outside his home.
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But soon a flurry of news reports citing unnamed sources cast doubt on Smollett's story, suggesting that he was somehow the one pulling the strings.
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It also fed a narrative that Bannon, not Trump, was truly pulling the strings in the White House — a narrative the president didn't like very much.
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"Why not try to contact those who we know are pulling the strings," he said in a recording of the interview published by Radio France Internationale.
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The System's omnipresence, the lack of any visible figurehead pulling the strings, and the stern enforcers all add more layers of tension to the matchmaking process.
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For the TV show, she's been turned into a more obvious, less interesting Ma Barker character, pulling the strings for her sons and skimming the profits.
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I think he's the person that's pulling the strings," Albright told CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS," pointing to Bannon's place on the National Security Council's "principals committee.
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The notion that puppet masters in Brussels are pulling the strings might come as a surprise to European officials who have been exasperated by Britain's paralysis.
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Why else would the Interior Department consider revoking protections for beloved national monuments if not for oil and gas interests pulling the strings behind closed doors?
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Trump isn't a grand political strategist, a puppeteer pulling the strings of the media and the Democrats based on some script that only he can see.
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But she already had a taste for head-of-state matters, and was reputed to be pulling the strings behind the facade of her second husband.
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Jason Whitlock believes Colin Kaepernick is a "pawn in a game he doesn't understand" ... and the people pulling the strings desperately want to take down the NFL.
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All of a sudden, Manifest becomes the show you may have initially assumed it would be: a twisted mystery with a preternatural monster seemingly pulling the strings.
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Someone pulling the strings on these new Star Wars stories decided to pull a random artifact out of the Original Trilogy and imbue it with new meaning.
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The head of her political operation was investigated by the FBI for allegedly pulling the strings of government despite not holding an official role in her administration.
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Unfortunately, for the sake of building up battles and putting Arya, Sansa, Daenerys, and Jon Snow in the spotlight, the puppetmasters pulling the strings have been cut off.
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That connection between societal violence and the violence of art and performance, embodied by the sinister matrons pulling the strings of the dancers, is the movie's strongest idea.
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In a country where secrecy surrounds the leadership, it has never been clear whether Bouteflika was fully in charge or whether the powerful army was pulling the strings.
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Related: Missy Elliot and Pharrell's "WTF" Puppeteers Talk Pulling the Strings We Spoke To The Puppet Master Behind The Dark Crystal And Labyrinth "Rear Window" The Interactive Documentary?
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If they're being used to imply that there's a vast, organized Turkey-style internal security conspiracy pulling the strings of the US government, that is false and misleading.
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As you rightly noted, even after his resignation, Mr Nazarbayev will keep pulling the strings as Elbasi, or Leader of the Nation for life, resisting any opening towards democracy.
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In the comics, she is seduced and manipulated by the supervillain Mastermind; in Dark Phoenix, it looks like Jessica Chastain is pulling the strings as a potential new character.
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"Google is very aggressive in throwing its money around Washington and Brussels, and then pulling the strings," Lynn told the Times, referring to the headquarters of the European Union.
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Without their fleet-footed tactician pulling the strings, Croatia disappeared for much of the game, allowing Denmark to put together most of the promising moves in the second half.
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Instead of dealing with the very real evidence that Russia helped get him elected, Trump prefers to believe that Brennan and his all-powerful C.I.A. were pulling the strings.
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Confessions of a congressman: 9 secrets from the inside More and more, censorship functions as message crafting, using the media to give legitimacy to whoever is pulling the strings.
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It looks more and more like Lucy and Dan were up to their ears in whatever this was, and were later taken out by whoever was really pulling the strings.
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Especially after watching the dark arts of UnReal, many viewers assume reality TV is at best a puppet show with producers pulling the strings, and at worst a complete fiction.
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TMZ Sports spoke with Dane Blackson -- Eli's half-brother (they have the same mom) -- and he's very passionate that Annie Apple is "pulling the strings" in a very damaging way.
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But as I reported the story, I found that hidden hands pulling the strings from every direction belonged to culture warriors with daggers drawn over the future of abortion rights.
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A group of parliamentarians from members the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) issued a statement saying the military is still pulling the strings in both politics and the judiciary.
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Some, including the Anti-Defamation League, have detected anti-Semitism behind the conspiracy theories, saying they lean on old tropes of powerful Jews secretly pulling the strings of world events.
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I'm just trying to imagine either of them being president, and all I see is them as puppets for the bankers and the elites pulling the strings behind the scenes.
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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, is widely believed to have been pulling the strings behind Khashoggi's death in October after the journalist wrote critically of the Saudi government.
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Liu Shiyu, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, said last week that his institution would tackle "big crocodiles " – the tycoons pulling the strings behind the scenes in the capital market.
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Or (and this is even more sinister), perhaps Robert Ford has been in the Cradle all along, pulling the strings, and driving wedges between Dolores and Maeve with her new powers.
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While serving in the White House, he garnered an infamous reputation as a puppet master pulling the strings in the Oval Office, earning the moniker "The Great Manipulator" from Time magazine.
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After all, along with the alphabet soup of promotions pulling the strings, an overstock of weight classes separated by as little as three pounds is part of pro boxing's structural flaws.
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Pulling the strings is the spymaster Kurtz, played by a mustachioed Michael Shannon, who has Charlie take on the role of double-agent in a terrorist scheme that tests her loyalties.
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Ailes has previously wielded his immense power and influence in the media to electioneer from behind the scenes, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't enjoy pulling the strings of a presidential campaign.
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Although audiences might suspect at first that Annie is the one tormenting her own family – perhaps while in a sleepwalking fugue – Aster confirms it's Joan the cult that are pulling the strings.
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The White House official disputed that outside conservative groups such as the Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation are pulling the strings on judicial nominations — a frequent claim by groups on the left.
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His appearance was apparently designed to convey a business-as-usual atmosphere -- the generals pulling the strings in Harare are desperate not to give the impression they are orchestrating an unconstitutional coup.
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Mugabe's appearance was apparently designed to convey a business-as-usual atmosphere -- the generals pulling the strings in Harare are desperate not to give the impression they are orchestrating an unconstitutional coup.
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Atlantis, the nation he rules, is at war with the United States, but there may be a third, evil entity pulling the strings and making it look like Atlantis is the aggressor.
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Here, an idyllic, young naked man's hairy body is peeked at by two young women as they lift and drop the white feathered blinds of his box garment by pulling the strings.
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Chris Christie of New Jersey, as a senior White House adviser to the State Department, which added to growing unease that the White House would be pulling the strings at the department.
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Just like the congregants in Boxley Abbey, the questions we should be asking when we see these marvels are: who is pulling the strings here, and what is it they want from us?
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As you walk past this automata, though, you see a fat bunch of wires leading out of its back and into a compact engine of motors and actuators — quite literally pulling the strings.
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Many in Madrid will mistrust Mr Torra's government as long as Mr Puigdemont, who precipitated Spain's deepest constitutional crisis since the return of democracy in 1978, is seen to be pulling the strings.
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Related: We Spoke To The Puppet Master Behind The Dark Crystal And Labyrinth Missy Elliot and Pharrell's "WTF" Puppeteers Talk Pulling the Strings Check Out Wael Shawky's Ancient Puppets at MoMA PS1 This
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In the early going, though, he deliberately takes a back seat to Roslyn Ruff, whose fearsome portrayal of Lady Macbeth leaves no doubt about who is pulling the strings in the Macbeth family.
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But you don't need to posit some kind of John Le Carré conspiracy theory, where Kislyak is the puppet master pulling the strings of a vast White House–Kremlin plot, to explain why.
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"If you want to believe the worst here, if you want to believe that Putin is literally pulling the strings of this administration, then this is exactly how it would play out," Murphy said.
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One reassuring thing to keep in mind while witnessing the constant murder throughout the show is that every character rolling in their grave still has a chance of pulling the strings of the living.
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" Feb: In response to reports that Steve Bannon is pulling the strings in the White House, Trump tweets that he calls his own shots, and "some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!
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It can hold blood samples on a disc, and by pulling the strings back and forth, it spins the samples at extremely fast rates to separate blood from plasma, preparing them for disease testing.
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Three days later Mr Dauman filed a lawsuit to block the move, arguing that Mr Redstone was mentally incompetent and that Shari Redstone, his daughter, was pulling the strings in an "unlawful corporate takeover".
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This is a significant destabilizing factor and a path to further internal conflict in the country, as Sunni and Kurdish minorities will not rally around a united Iraq if Iran is pulling the strings.
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We tell the same stories about A.I. over and over again: society is destroyed (the "Terminator" movies), the machines emulate and replace us ("Ex Machina"), the machines become gods pulling the strings ("The Matrix").
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Helm's server aims to create a seamless and equally convenient alternative, letting you host your own email, contacts, and calendar, as well as store files and photos yourself—no snoopy tech giant pulling the strings.
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Coates has made no secret of his antipathy for ASC chairman John Wylie, accusing the wealthy Melbourne businessman of trying to muscle in on the AOC's territory and of pulling the strings behind Roche's candidacy.
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"Listen, if you want to believe the worst here, if you want to believe that Putin is literally pulling the strings of this administration, then this is exactly how it would play out," Murphy said.
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Once inside, he explores what is essentially a virtual version of the Westworld park — and discovers that Dr. Ford's consciousness has been uploaded into the system, where he is very much alive and pulling the strings.
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That means getting corporate money out of politics, exposing the corporations pulling the strings of trade associations in Washington and around the world, and reining in corporate influence on policymaking—both in the U.S. and internationally.
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Someone in the top ranks of the police is in cahoots with organized crime, but he or she is always just out of reach, pulling the strings of the people Steve, Kate and Ted bring down.
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Critics of Zelensky even going as far as to say that Zelensky is not the real president, that he's the puppet and that Kolomoisky is the puppet master and he's the one who's actually pulling the strings.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe's most ardent federalists, including the man now pulling the strings in the European Commission, tried to kill off the European Union's exit clause or make it unworkable when it was first proposed in 2003.
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Conservatives deny that the Federalist Society is a shadowy cabal pulling the strings — its events aimed at fostering a community for conservative and libertarian lawyers are public, and its donors are listed in annual reports and tax records.
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In a world of self-serious drug warriors, Eric Lance brings a gleeful, knowing wickedness to his role as "CIA Bill," the puppetmaster pulling the strings of Los Pepes, as the Escobar kill team took to calling itself.
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Letting a man think he's in charge while pulling the strings and grooming the next generation: This is a more comfortable and familiar position for Cersei than ruling solo, which continues to paint a giant target on her back.
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No, as recently theorized by Star Wars fans, Jar Jar Binks is the Sith lord at the center of the galaxy's tilt toward the dark side, a malevolent puppet master pulling the strings of Skywalkers, Solos, and Senators alike.
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The idea of the Jew as a "puppet master" secretly pulling the strings of world affairs for the express purpose of destabilizing governments or diluting the white population goes back at least to the days of the European Enlightenment.
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She's also been in a reactionary position rather than pulling the strings like she used to — when she's not following other people's game plans, she's been playing checkers while characters like Margaery and the High Sparrow are playing chess.
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The Democratic Party has cycled through various villains over the last few decades, with the conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch occupying the most recent slot for the elite, well-endowed, shadowy figures supposedly pulling the strings on American elections.
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Jack Chick took a perverse delight in pulling the strings of this puppet Christ, having him send dozens of decent people to burn forever in the fires of hell, because he always knew that he would not be one of them.
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Whatever the truth may be, Gideon's connections to the Great Purge and his unlikely ownership of the Darksaber suggests that, at last, we've met The Mandalorian's primary antagonist, the one who's been pulling the strings behind the scenes all along.
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Interestingly, it is the small child—the picture of innocence, perhaps still young and naive enough to not feel beaten down by the world and whatever omniscient being that may or may not be pulling the strings—who turns to prayer.
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Basically, it's clear Redstone's troops don't believe these letters bear the seal of the king, so to speak, and if Shari Redstone is indeed pulling the strings, as Viacom's board claims, it's Redstone's sole control that has made it easier.
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"Toy Story" has now been around for nearly a quarter-century, so Pixar hasn't exactly been churning them out; still, when (not if) the fifth installment finally comes, with friends like these pulling the strings, the franchise is in very good hands.
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But Germany has — like the British — seen little conclusive evidence to show that Beijing is behind the scenes pulling the strings — only that the company could be compelled to spy in the future once use of the technology has been firmly established.
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The truly puzzling thing about all this is the illogical mental Jiu Jitsu that must be accomplished to blame white decline on those who are doing even worse than they are and not on the ones pulling the strings in government (the 1%).
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In 21994, he aired a multipart special called "George Soros: The Puppet Master," which was widely condemned for its anti-Semitic overtones, beginning with its title (the Jew as puppet master, pulling the strings of humanity, is another age-old anti-Semitic trope).
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The last month has seen Turkey send troops to pitch in to Libya's civil war, in which Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have long been on different sides, with other nations pulling the strings increasingly believed to include Russia and Italy.
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Widely seen as Poland's de facto ruler, he has been pulling the strings of government from behind the closed door of his nondescript office building in central Warsaw, holding no official posts other than his lawmaker's mandate as a member of Parliament.
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Then again, in hindsight it's amazing that a mainstream, ad-supported basic cable network gambled at all on such a scalding concept, which skewered corporate greed and consumerism and posited that a shadowy cabal was behind everything, pulling the strings and profiting handsomely.
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"Commonly, it is the people pulling the strings who get out first making the most in the scheme, and leaving everyone else scrambling to sell before losing their investment," the agency said, adding that its own oversight in these markets is limited.
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With his new documentary, The Lure, British documentarian Tomas Leach employs a quiet lyricism to compose a portrait of these fanatic treasure hunters and their relationship with Fenn, the wizened old man with a twinkle in his eye pulling the strings on their feverish quest.
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In a just world, this would be his My Pet Goat moment—an instance where his numerous flaws as a person and a leader come together to reveal the tiny, 8-year-old child pulling the strings of a big bottomed 70-year-old man.
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ISTANBUL — Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says that a mild-mannered Muslim cleric living in self-imposed exile in rural Pennsylvania was pulling the strings of a coup attempt last week that almost succeeded in taking over the state, and killing Mr. Erdogan himself.
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If you float a little bit further up—provided you're able to avoid cannon fire—you'll discover the city's militarized bureaucracy, authoritarian cabals pulling the strings and ensuring class strife both lines their pockets and ensures any unrest is directed at each other, not them.
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They were spying on, that&aposs not a term I particularly like, trying to understand were the Russians infiltrating, trying to gain access, trying to leverage- INGRAHAM: Newt, a legitimate inquiry, if the Russians are pulling the strings on the Trump campaign, that&aposs what he said.
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Celebrities and the media helped these families along—intentionally or not—in their exploitation by either turning a blind eye or running puff pieces celebrating the kids' charisma or savvy—perhaps because a story about the teenagers and adults pulling the strings would have been less inspirational.
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The numerous executive orders signed by Trump fit neatly into Bannon's white nationalist agenda; their poor execution signal that a government novice is pulling the strings; and Bannon's unconventional (and possibly illegal) appointment to the National Security Council suggests that he, more than anyone, holds Trump's ear.
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It feels like it's been years since Pretty Little Liars fans discovered that Spencer Hastings' evil twin Alex Drake (Troian Bellisario) was the one pulling the strings as Uber A. In reality, it has been less than one — but that doesn't mean fans miss the Freeform series any less.
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The moment reframed much of the season, explaining how the Man in Black (Ed Harris) has been able to receive messages from Ford, and suggesting that the bloody uprising of free will-enabled hosts may have been just another carefully orchestrated narrative, with Ford's digital ghost pulling the strings.
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Now this is unlikely, casting doubt on who will succeed Mr. Xi. All of this makes one wonder how Mr. Xi's rule will end: with his taking an unprecedented third five-year term or perhaps staying on in some ceremonial capacity and pulling the strings from behind a curtain?
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We can see how the flaws in Bernard's character are reflected in Dolores — her desire to hold onto the pain of losing her parents tracks with a conversation Bernard had with his wife about losing their son — but he and the other technicians are the puppet masters pulling the strings.
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"And that's one of the deepest concerns that I have, that this is a person who's directing the Department of Homeland Security -- the third largest agency in this nation, that's responsible for protecting us -- but the person who is pulling the strings does not seem to care about protecting many Americans."
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We're told Britney has no plans to visit the 3 states in the immediate future, but our sources say Jamie knows what's up and believes there are people out there in social media pulling the strings in the "Free Britney" movement who might attempt to wrestle her away if she leaves California.
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The president's reputation for secrecy, including an unwillingness to give press conferences or rely on any but a handful of close aides, only feeds the notion that Choi was the one pulling the strings behind the president the entire time (along with a secret group of advisers she called the "eight fairies").
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Donna Brazile's explosive book excerpt that confessed Hillary Clinton's campaign was essentially pulling the strings at the Democratic National Committee nearly a year before she was the official party nominee is the latest proof that, even in a changing populist uprising spreading nationwide, the Democratic Party still clings to money before all else.
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This is a far more complicated demand, and those who have been pulling the strings for years in Algeria — the army and an extensive nexus of politicians, top businessmen and high civil servants — have been improvising to keep up with the largely peaceful demonstrators, who have turned out in increasing numbers each Friday.
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"Most likely Djukanovic is stepping down under Western, not Russian, pressure," said Dimitar Bechev, a scholar of Russian policy in the Balkans at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard, adding that he thought Mr. Djukanovic "will be pulling the strings informally," as he did the previous times he ceded power.
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While Biller stayed behind the camera for this one, she still donned just about every non-acting hat she could to create this film over a seven-year period, not only designing but actually building and stitching many of the sets and costumes, as well as pulling the strings as writer, director, and producer.
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Geminoid has been featured in endless Web videos and on TV, but it has never carried on conversations without Dr. Ishiguro pulling the strings in the background, usually from behind an Internet-connected PC. For this demonstration, Dr. Ishiguro stood to one side on the stage as Courtney Ray Goodson carried on a brief, seemingly casual conversation with Geminoid.
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Legion has all the ingredients for greatness: A promising cast, a wealth of well-regarded source source material from the X-Men comics, Fargo TV series creator Noah Hawley pulling the strings as showrunner, and a home on FX, which struck creative gold with Fargo and is looking to repeat that success with a similar formula here.
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Stephens—with an eye, I'm sure, to rhythm, but also pulling the strings of portent—braids these sweetly remembered talks with Alex's meditations on the nature and power of water: how not to panic while swimming too far from shore; the fierce, unfathomable drop between one underwater depth and another; the time he went scuba diving.
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Season 1 ends with a few major cliffhangers: Lexie and Harry (Grace Victoria Fox and Alex Fitzalan) are now running the show, with Campbell (Toby Wallace) now pulling the strings; Allie and Will are in custody; elsewhere Grizz (Jack Mulhern) and his group have found new land to farm on; and, somewhere, everyone else is still alive and living on Earth.
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The season premiere of Game of Thrones was dominated by the powerful women who will soon be pulling the strings of their respective empires: Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) in the North, Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) at King's Landing, Lynna Mormont (Bella Ramsey) as Sansa's ally, and Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) in the woods with Ed Sheeran and his merry musical men (lol jk).
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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said in an interview Sunday that she thinks White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon is "pulling the strings" in President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's administration.
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November 22, Santeria Social Club, Milan, Italy November 23 - Monk Club, Rome, Italy November 24 - TBC, Turin, Italy November 25 - Bronson Club, Ravenna, Italy November 26, Latteria Molloy, Brescia, Italy November 27 - Teatro La Claque, Genoa, Italy November 30 Fri-Son, Fribourg, Switzerland December 1 - Alte Feuerwache, Manheim, Germany December 2 - Gretchen, Berlin, Germany December 3 - Stadtgarten, Cologne, Germany Related Missy Elliot and Pharrell's "WTF" Puppeteers Talk Pulling the Strings Robot Puppets Light Up a Stop-Motion Short Film Moss-Covered Mythological Creatures Awaken in an Interactive Installation
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