"He's the puppet master, " a Western diplomat told me.
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Of course, Rachel was the puppet master of this disaster.
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The terrorism puppet master Osama bin Laden gets scant attention.
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Until last season, Littlefinger was characterized as a scheming puppet master.
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He's the shadowy puppet master controlling even Westeros' most uncontrollable players.
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Emperor Palpatine was a heartless schemer and an effective puppet master.
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She has spent her entire career playing puppet master to politicians.
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But elsewhere criminal convictions have kept puppet-master politicians from the stage.
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But Frank is still a shadow of season one's devilish puppet master.
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But none of those men proved to be an effective puppet master.
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And as we just discovered, Adal isn't the only grand puppet master.
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To be clear -- this isn't a "McConnell is a puppet master" story.
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That Dick Cheney was this Machiavellian puppet master of George W. Bush.
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And if it's not revealed that Polly Cooper is the ultimate puppet master?
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An operative is much more of a puppet master than a James Bond.
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But looming over her candidacy like a puppet master is Mr. López Obrador.
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Every conspiracy theory needs a "them," the shadowy puppet master pulling the strings.
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Think of him as a puppet master who controls people with a capella tunes.
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Even yours truly, a horror buff who's seen every Puppet Master, skipped The Mummy.
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Gabbard accusing Clinton of being the puppet master behind a massive conspiracy against her?
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Indeed, Mr Kabila's critics say he wants to play puppet-master to Mr Tshisekedi.
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Officially he was the security chief; unofficially, the puppet-master of the dictatorial regime.
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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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Second, evoking a Kremlin puppet master revives the mistrust seeded by the original Russian operation.
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Ultimately, you will become a puppet master and your 33D avatar will be your marionette.
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He is a football fan's puppet master, making each of us dance on his strings.
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We definitely don't want Donald Trump to see his puppet master played by a woman.
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In November of 2010, Beck dedicated two episodes to exposing the "puppet master" George Soros.
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Was Addman the real puppet master in all of this, playing the Berklee kids like marionettes?
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But its latest attempts to play puppet-master with the oil market have been counter-productive.
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"They think Cirie the legend, Jedi mind trick puppet master is trying to get me," she laughs.
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The acclaim was intoxicating, and whether intentionally or not, Albert fell into the role of puppet-master.
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While whichever mysterious puppet master behind the murderous bash set up the snacks — killer puppet masters love snacks!
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"Rosen's radical liberal stances might please her puppet-master Harry Reid, but they will leave Nevadans worse off."
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Is he A and he has just been using Nicole as an excuse to continue being puppet master?
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Putin, a former KGB agent, has been painted as the puppet master behind the challenge on November's voting.
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Music needs to become an invisible puppet master doing the job film editors and directors used to do.
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Now, Syria seems destined to influence the region not as a puppet-master but as a black hole.
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"The idea of my being here as some kind of puppet master, it's just not true," he said.
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And wouldn't you know it, the puppet master is still trying to pull her strings in Season 7.
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Embittered editorial writers and Republican opponents call him a puppet-master, responsible for dysfunction in the Land of Lincoln.
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In an interview with Glamour, Bachelor and Bachelorette host/puppet-master Chris Harrison explains what makes Parker so different.
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But of course the puppet master still clutches the strings, his control never wavering, even when it appears otherwise.
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However, the election goes horribly awry, thanks to puppet master Campbell (Toby Wallace), and a few other wild cards.
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Macri's camp has tried to capitalize on that unease, portraying her as a puppet master waiting in the wings.
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BRETT VELICOVICH, U.S. ARMY VETERAN AND "DRONE WARRIOR" AUTHOR: (AUDIO GAP) and playing puppet master this whole entire time.
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But a White Walker's control over its resurrected wights is beyond telepathic — it's a puppet master controlling a puppet.
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He is a genuine puppet-master, one who manipulates Russian patriotism to amass power and serve his own interests.
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Conspiracy theories, meanwhile, string unconnected scandals together into an increasingly implausible master narrative orchestrated by a single puppet master.
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In the conceptual painting series dancers she depicts a monkey playing puppet master to male and female ballet dancers.
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I don't remember auditioning for Retro Puppet Master, but, you know, there was a lot of crossover between us.
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It seems Comer is playing a puppet master/Agent Q-type character and has serious combat and firearm skills.
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She's a powerful puppet master who knows how to craft a narrative, and her greatest work is our greatest entertainment.
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The city's soul, much like the Major / Puppet Master hybrid at the end of the film, is harder to define.
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In this reading, the president is a puppet-master whose tweets distract from scandal and divert attention from substantive issues.
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Has Mona really been the puppet master for all these years, stepping her ruthless antics from being the original A?
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Anybody who writes for a living knows how to manipulate an outraged response, and Trump is a fool puppet master.
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Over his 17 years dominating Russia (including one term as prime ministerial puppet-master), Putin has essentially hollowed out Russia's institutions.
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What That Means Facebook is conveying that News Feed is a reflection of our interests, not some puppet master controlling them.
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She called Dubrow a "puppet master" and accused Dubrow, Shannon and Tamra of ganging up on her and setting her up.
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The actual creature from the Upside Down, the thing we've come to know as the Mind Flayer, is a puppet master.
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But as far as presenting himself as a self-styled puppet master goes, he's one of the best in the world.
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Zuckerberg may be seeking to reduce the appearance that he's playing puppet master and instead does actually let Instagram run independently.
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But the behind the scenes, the puppet master, business owner Mr. Timmons — whom we never see — represents the power structure itself.
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This is especially necessary since season 7B will (hopefully) unmask PLL's "Uber A," who's the true puppet master of this crazy game.
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The show's at its best when we see Rachel play puppet-master with the contestants, and we see that in full force.
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By the end of Wednesday's "God Bless the Child," June has taken up the role of Gilead puppet master and proletariat hero.
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I ask Dan the Amp Guy if there was ever a point person, a puppet-master orchestrating it all from the shadows.
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It really shows that the American people will not sit idly by and let the mainstream media act as a puppet master.
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Varga's need to control Emmit and his play at Stussy Lots overwhelms the more sensible strategy of remaining the unseen puppet master.
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Every power structure has its puppet master, and the people behind the curtain in Silicon Valley and Westeros are quite the doozy.
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"Shari now seeks to become Mr. Redstone's puppet master, pulling his strings behind the scenes to improperly seize control of Viacom," it states.
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From there Westworld's hidden puppet master seemed to be controlling aspects of the physical world and, at times, the actions of the hosts.
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You can tell why I like Jessica, because she was always so thoughtful, even though she was being a puppet master to me.
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In recent weeks, Bannon has been portrayed on "SNL" as a Grim Reaper-type figure, who acts as a puppet master for Trump.
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You did it when you revived the Puppet Master in Fantastic Four #14 after Reed had pronounced him dead in Fantastic Four #8.
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One episode after Bobby revealed himself as puppet master to Donnie, the United States attorney's key informant, he loses control of him, too.
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Portrayals of him as an octopus, or, as in a Hungarian billboard, as a puppet-master, inevitably recall the last century's anti-Semitic propaganda.
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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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How effective will inevitable Qatari and Iranian efforts be to cast the recent escalation as a result of Israel acting as the puppet master?
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In the end, the Ailes we'd mythologized as a Machiavellian puppet master was revealed to be nothing more than a common frat house bully.
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The finding doesn't totally discredit the series, since The Keepers theorizes that Maskell may have played a puppet master–type role in Cesnik's murder.
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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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We Spoke To The Puppet Master Behind The Dark Crystal And Labyrinth Gritty Johannesburg, Human/Puppet Theater, and Canine Video Art | Culture Beat Episode 6
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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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Perfectly mirroring Baelish's betrayal of their father in Season 1, the Stark sisters ambush the puppet master and cut his strings once and for all.
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Real Jim Henson heads know that Sesame Street and the Muppets are child's play when it comes to the genius of everybody's favorite puppet master.
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The puppeteer scene features the work of puppet-master Suse Wächter, who has produced a tiny version of Cate Blanchett that exactly has her smile.
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He's a puppet master with invisible strings, injecting the guinea pigs of G-Force with human intelligence, giving Babe the pig complex thought and speech.
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That's me when it comes to the announcement of a new Friday the 13th film or the latest flaming pile of garbage Puppet Master movie.
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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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Their puppet master commands them to steal cars, rob banks, even kill each other – just to see how far people will go to protect their reputation.
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Sanders' film basically blends that idea into a simpler story arc, with Kuze acting as a mix of his source material character and the Puppet Master.
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After further baseline punishment, he broke Nadal for the fourth time, pulling him around like a puppet-master before tripping him up with another drop-shot.
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Besides, why would China let him give up his greatest leverage when it could cost the Red puppet master a key buffer and major irritant against America?
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With CeCe freshly out of Welby Psychiatric Hospital, Mona had figured out the so-called reformed puppet master planned to start torturing the Liars all over again.
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The Hungarian leader has advocated "ethnic homogeneity" and compared Soros, a Jew, to a puppet master unleashing immigration onto Europe to undermine its cultural and economic integrity.
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Just hours before the leaders were due to meet, around 100 protesters waved banners outside May's office depicting Erdogan as a puppet master with blood on his hands.
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Lee, being the highly skilled puppet master that he is, knew just what to say (or not say) to frustrate Kenny even more, and Kenny took the bait.
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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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But all experienced lawyers know that today's grand juries are merely 23 chairs, with 85033 puppets, who do whatever their puppet-master, the prosecutor, wants them to do.
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Campbell is basically Iago in Othello: He's a puppet master who knows how to work a system in order to get what he wants without getting his hands dirty.
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He's starred in campaign ads for GOP primary challengers for several cycles now, portrayed as the evil puppet master hiding behind the screen, undermining a conservative agenda from within.
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Instead, he mentioned a man who's been smeared by the far right as a liberal puppet master and, worse, a Nazi collaborator (though Soros is actually a Holocaust survivor).
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It's easy to forget, when he is dancing like a Thunderbird being operated by a puppet master made of pudding, that Corey Feldman has gone through some serious shit.
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The company now has about eighty employees and a hundred-and-fifty-million-dollar valuation—big enough that many Web denizens consider Conte a new kind of puppet master.
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And contrary to some experts who described Soleimani as a "puppet master," Feierstein argued that the Iranian general was "just an instrument" and not the decision-maker in Iran.
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Steve—real name Stephen Glove—is one of the top three stars of auto-injury megalith Jackass, along with puppet master Johnny Knoxville and aging problem child Bam Margera.
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And the movie's true villain was simply a puppet master, pulling strings to get Captain America and Iron Man to fight, because his life had been destroyed by the Avengers.
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In the original, the Major is inadvertently tracking a sentient AI called the Puppet Master, which deliberately seeks the cyborg out as a prime candidate to merge its consciousness with.
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Related: We Spoke To The Puppet Master Behind The Dark Crystal Travel Back to the 70s with This Experimental Puppet Show An Experimental Puppet Show Teaches the Key to Communication
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What kept dragging me out of individual scenes was the rigid way each character moved about each scene, as though a puppet master was tugging at their strings off-camera.
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Rather, it's an enterprise made up of a single poop-obsessed puppet master, whom we now know is Grayson, a former Bernardine student who was expelled, and his four puppets.
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Curtis calls our attention to Vladislav Surkov, whose official title is "the vice head of the presidential administration" and has been referred to as the "puppet master" of Putin's Russia.
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The Major helps a special-ops team pursuing the Puppeteer (in the film, the Puppet Master), a mysterious cybercriminal who can hack into the brains of cyborgs and humans alike.
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Operating like a puppet-master from afar, Abu Ahmad handled their logistics: connecting them with smugglers and cars for transport, providing pre-programmed cell phones and getting them fake Syrian passports.
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Second, although there might not be a puppet master, the attack on the U.N. does show it's possible for those around Trump to channel his natural inclinations in their preferred direction.
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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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The story follows Section 9's pursuit of a mysterious hacker known as the Puppet Master who, in a world of computer-enhanced individuals, can hack humans as well as machines.
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Related: We Spoke To The Puppet Master Behind The Dark Crystal And Labyrinth Original Creators: Jim Henson The Arab World's 'Sesame Street' Returns for the First Time Since the Gulf War
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As a result, numerous cheap and easy-to-use online tools let people quickly create thousands of Twitter bots — accounts that look real, but that are controlled by a puppet master.
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Related: Travel Back to the 70s with This Experimental Puppet Show We Spoke To The Puppet Master Behind The Dark Crystal And Labyrinth This Artist Is 3D Printing Custom Puppet Prosthetics
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Ultimately, the Puppet Master offers the Major a way to bypass her existential crisis by merging her consciousness with his to create a new being, joining him as a bodyless mind.
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An obvious highlight is What/If, an unabashedly dramatic show in which Renée Zellweger plays a billionaire puppet-master who enjoys putting people in morally compromising situations — what's there not to like?
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The puppet master continued his blog by stating that he's known about the change since October 2016, when he got a call notifying him that the studio planned to recast his part.
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If anyone knows the dangers of a tyrannical regimes, it certainly is the Germans, and Trump's actions, and that of his puppet master Stephen Bannon, have done little to assuage those fears.
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"Soros played this role of the personalized 'umbrella enemy' that you can put all your enemies under and say that he is the ultimate puppet master of every bad thing," Kreko said.
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The two of us first bonded over a love of crappy horror flicks, spending hours on the couch drinking cheep beer and working our way through the seemingly endless Puppet Master films.
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Long before Greg knew I wanted to make the movie, he put in his book that I had auditioned for a role in this movie Retro Puppet Master that he ultimately got.
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He was also drawn, he said, by the character of the Israeli veteran spymaster, Martin Kurtz (played by Shannon), "more active, dynamic and complex" than Le Carré's famous puppet-master, George Smiley.
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The stakes for Dar — treason — are incredibly high, and I suspect, now that Watch Cap Man has gone after Quinn, that Dar may not be the puppet master he has previously seemed.
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Also a musician, playwright, and poet, Cohen interrupts Jack's communication with Frank Fontaine to begin some puppet-master fetch-questing around Fort Frolic, Rapture's decayed social space once full of bars and boutiques.
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Though Olivia thinks she came up with the plan so she can save Jake from Command (Joe Morton), neither of them know just how much of a puppet master Papa Pope really is.
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But in a post-culture war America where marriage equality is the law of the land, why was the LGBT community viewing this election as if Jerry Falwell was still the puppet master?
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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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Related: An Experimental Puppet Show Teaches the Key to Communication [Premiere] We Spoke To The Puppet Master Behind The Dark Crystal And Labyrinth Travel Back to the 70s with This Experimental Puppet Show
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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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The "You" in the song is a benevolent God, who gives her hope; on YouTube, Daigle looks like yet another woman dressed up as a doll on strings, caressed by a puppet master.
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Eventually, he gets Powell to open up about the abuse he suffered as a child, leaving the viewer more sympathetic with the film's subject than the director clearly trying to play puppet-master.
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"It's so funny, because I'll hear stories like, 'Kris Jenner is the puppet master, having all of her kids do this and that,' and I'm like, 'If they only knew,' " revealed Kardashian West, 35.
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Conservative television host Glenn Beck once described him in a series of hour–long commentaries in 2010 as a shadowy political "puppet master" who manipulates unions, the Democratic Party and the Obama White House.
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Although the lyrics were written by Carré rather than the software, it's impossible not to detect the menacing threats of machine intelligence in the wording, presumably working through Carré like a sinister puppet master.
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We know now that under our shambolic democracy, a man as unfit as Mr. Trump really can legitimately acquire all the terrifying powers of the presidency without being controlled by a foreign puppet master.
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Hungarian state propaganda has basically taken up a version of the American right-wing "puppet master" line, accusing Soros of secretly funding the migration wave as part of a plot to undermine Hungary's Christian identity.
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Strange, isn't it, that we still have these basements and buildings on high streets and industrial-entertainment complexes where people pay money to exert themselves physically, as if controlled by a pilled-up puppet master.
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Photo: GettyA puppet master who helped bring to life Disney's vision of an African animal kingdom was arrested last week for allegedly 3D-printing guns in the prop room of the Broadway theater, court records show.
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And, like those Republicans who believed Obama had a secret agenda in favor of Arabs and against Jews, some Democrats claim that Trump is undermining traditional American allies at the behest of his Kremlin puppet master.
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Dominic Cummings, cast by his enemies variously as the puppet master of Brexit, Britain's Rasputin or a political vandal, was made into a giant effigy of the devil, complete with horns and manipulating his boss, Johnson.
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In Poland and Hungary, right-wing populist governments are already pushing some of the authoritarian policies that Heinz-Christian Strache (Mr Hofer's more divisive party leader and, some would say, puppet master) is advancing in Austria.
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"I'm not sure anyone thinks that Corey Lewandowski was Donald Trump's puppet master ... I really doubt this makes a difference to the fundamentals of who Donald Trump is and his persona that he likes," she said.
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The Roosevelt report tries to evade this by framing economic power as playing a puppet-master role, whipping up the white majority, or the patriarchy, or the disproportionately powerful small state senators, for its own ends.
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The Fox News commentator Glenn Beck once called him a "puppet master" who controls a malevolent liberal machine, and in recent years, references to Soros as a global supervillain have become commonplace on conservative media outlets.
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PUPPET MASTER: THE LITTLEST REICH S. Craig Zahler, of the uncommonly good neo-exploitation movies "Brawl in Cell Block 99" and "Bone Tomahawk," wrote this horror film about puppets who come to life at a convention.
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In recent examples in the region of powerful leaders who anointed presidential successors with hopes of controlling them — Ecuador, Colombia and even Argentina itself in 2003 — the one hoping to be puppet master generally fared poorly.
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The rock-rap group Prophets of Rage is releasing a new music video blasting President Trump, showing an altered image of him giving a Nazi salute and being operated by a puppet master Vice President Pence.
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Moser has been endorsed by many of the national and local Sanders-allied groups, and while the DCCC's attacks were not ideological, many of those groups saw the episode as the DCCC trying to play puppet master.
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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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In modern history, the idea of Jew as a puppet master, without loyalty to his country of origin — you can really trace that back to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, published in Russia in 1903.
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In one post, Soros was pictured as a puppet master controlling Tony Blair; the image echoed a Nazi propaganda poster of the nineteen-forties, in which a Jewish man controls Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin with strings.
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Near the end of "Celebration" Mr. Bergé finally falls into the trap Mr. Meyrou has been laying for him all along, and the jealousy and frustration of the puppet master is laid bare for all to see.
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Cooking up an elaborate blackmail plot from his wheelchair, Randal becomes a stationary puppet master, casually risking the lives of a dopey friend and his long-suffering girlfriend, Pam (a wonderful Monique Rockman), to carry it out.
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But, fans might be wondering if the coder should even try to help her former boss, who, as previously mentioned, straight-up tried to murder her (albeit under the influence of Westworld's oft-nefarious puppet master, Robert Ford).
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"If I put on glasses and look at myself like the whole rest of the world, I see myself as a monster, as a puppet master, as the master of Zelensky, someone making apocalyptic plans," Mr. Kolomoisky said.
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They said it harked back to the era of La Francafrique, when Paris played puppet-master in African countries decades after post-colonial independence, propping up leaders like Bongo's father in exchange for pushing business to French firms.
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"The puppet master is dead; the strings have been cut," Michael Knights, a Gulf expert at the Washington Institute with years of experience working with local military and security agencies in Iraq and the Persian Gulf, told CNBC.
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In his final act as director and puppet master, Ford orchestrates the greatest "you can't fire me because I quit" maneuver in history, marshaling a sequence of events that empowers the hosts to claim Westworld as their own.
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But many adolescents often get so lost in a story that they forget there is an author behind the words — a puppet master who sets the stage, pulls the strings, develops the conflicts and shares a bigger meaning.
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Publishers are worried about ceding too much control of their distribution to gigantic tech companies, and all of the above are worried that Google is not so much a steward of the web but rather its nefarious puppet master.
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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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We're less than one month away from the beginning of the end of Pretty Little Liars, and after literal years of waiting, the show is finally going to reveal who the true puppet master of the A game is.
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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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The conspiracy theories against Soros, and the insidious idea of the "Jewish puppet master" more generally, are part of a much broader rhetoric of hate, one that has fomented amid populist anxieties about urbanization, industrialization, and capitalism for centuries.
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A man and a woman embrace, then another man manipulates them into a different embrace, but they reset into the first one, so the puppet master puts them back as he wants — and the cycle repeats over and over.
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But the return of the puppet master Ford (Anthony Hopkins) in Sunday night's episode "Les Écorchés" reveals that hosts and guests are both at the mercy of the park's fundamental purpose, which is to gather behavioral data about the guests.
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The United States is not only at peace with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, but is actively courting it as an ally in order to contain China (a country which McNamara and his crew idiotically saw as Vietnam's puppet-master).
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Death by drug-dealers was much more plausible than death by a far-out cult of brainwashed teenage runaways and the puppet-master who convinced them he was Jesus Christ and thought the Beatles' wrote the "White Album" for him.
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Most likely, the broadcast will instead be happening from remote ISDN lines within Stern's home, along within the separate homes of his co-host, Robin Quivers, writer, sound man and puppet master Fred Norris, and the show's executive producer Gary Dell'Abate.
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We witness Jeff's surviving son Will (Cole Allen) attempt to distinguish himself from his dead twin, and Jeff's sister Deirdre (Catherine Keener) struggle to keep her own family together while fulfilling her duties as Mr. Pickles' Puppet Time's puppet master.
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After observing Donald Trump for all these exhausting months, it is clear that, whether he is as calculating as a puppet master like Surkov or simply functioning on a showman's intuition, the law of noncontradiction does not apply in his universe.
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Several associates said the president had quietly expressed annoyance over the credit Mr. Bannon had received for setting the agenda—and Mr. Trump was not pleased by the 'President Bannon' puppet-master theme promoted by magazines, late-night talk shows, and Twitter.
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Once Joe's courtship pays off (here come the spoilers), he isn't in control anymore—at times, running around, struggling to snuff out his romantic competition, he seems less like a puppet master than like a tail on the kite of Guinevere's social life.
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Pitts, who worked at the Food and Drug Administration during the George W. Bush administration, called Arnold a "political puppet master" and a "a bully," saying he's laser-focused on attacking the drug industry instead of other actors in the drug delivery system.
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Last weekend's attacks on the Tree of Life synagogue — the deadliest ever attack on Jews on American soil according to the Anti-Defamation League — reveal just how noxious the "Jewish puppet master" trope can be, and just how long it can survive.
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"If you really want to be in a position of power and just mess with people's social media presence, you spend a while intentionally inflating another's presence, and being a kind of puppet master," said David Berkowitz, a marketing consultant for technology companies.
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"If you really want to be in a position of power and just mess with people's social media presence, you spend a while intentionally inflating another's presence, and being a kind of puppet master," said David Berkowitz, a marketing consultant for technology companies.
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The shutdown fight also underlined the internal dangers facing Kelly, who risks falling out of favor with the president — much like former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon — if he is portrayed in the press as a puppet master pulling Trump's strings.
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Less than a month after Mr Trump's inauguration, the resignation of Michael Flynn over the national security adviser's lies about discussing sanctions with the Russian ambassador before taking office has further stoked fears in Washington of a Russian puppet master behind the US government.
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The Long Beach rapper, whose real name is Dominick Wickliffe, released an album last week, which includes the song "Welcome to Planet X," featuring Eminem, that takes place in an alternate reality — a nation led by a puppet master inspired by President-elect Donald Trump.
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Speedrunning is puppetry in real-time, and the puppet master is a squidly, bonded entity of minds and maneuvers that have connected over the internet and managed to transport everything they learned into a capable human who can execute it all in sequence while monologuing.
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Joe Biden has much less of a "puppet master" reputation compared with Cheney, but as the Atlantic's Michael Hirsh has written, he's been omnipresent in major administration debates and policy initiatives, and played an important role representing the White House in negotiations with congressional Republicans.
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In the case of 1995's Ghost in the Shell, this complication emerges in the form of the Puppet Master, a feared hacker so skilled that he can even alter cyberbrains, and who is later revealed to be not a man but an artificial intelligence.
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For example, when she wants to promote the private secretary she had while she was a princess, to her private secretary as queen, she doesn't do so because a man tells her not to — in this case her retiring secretary who is something of a puppet master.
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Of course this looming sense of doom comes straight from season 7B puppet master A.D. After three episodes of PLL's final lap, the shadowy villain's aims are becoming clearer, and it seems A.D. is hoping to make each Liar just as dark as he or she is.
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The social media posts of the man arrested in the shootings echoed a lie being peddled by Donald Trump, Fox News and some Republican politicians, which paints a group of bedraggled migrants about a thousand miles away as a dangerous invading horde subsidized by a shadowy puppet master.
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Facing his first major defeat, Bannon, who has vowed to wage war against McConnell in various Senate races, has cultivated an image of a puppet master and will move quickly to frame Alabama as an anomaly that was decided based on allegations rather than ideology, according to those close to him.
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Rachel's transformation from reluctant mercenary to willful assassin is what makes her story so compelling At first it looks like this is just the blackmail's doing (a totally relatable problem), but over the course of the 10-episode season, viewers watch as Rachel tries and fails to resist playing puppet master.
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Fyre Festival puppet master Billy McFarland may not be going to prison (yet, anyway), but he does owe the people he defrauded — via the beautiful, doomed disaster that was the one-percenter island music festival, and before that, the fake influencer credit card company Magnises — to the tune of $27.4 million.
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Soros, who is Jewish and a Holocaust survivor, is controversial in the United States as well: He's a major Democratic donor who has been accused by figures like Glenn Beck and Tucker Carlson of being the "puppet master" (in Beck's words) behind a conspiracy to weaken and transform the United States.
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" There, says the producer, Russian president Vladimir Putin found room to step in and act as "puppet master doing a Jedi mind trick on the world so that he and Exxon Mobil could strike deals that would make them and the other 1 percent more rich and powerful than they already are.
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His teachings can be summarized as Christian love (difficult to argue with) and a need to pay tithes to Lord RayEl (easier to argue with), along with an intractable loathing for business magnate George Soros (RayEl would like you to believe that Soros is the Antichrist and "puppet master of the new world order").
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In the wake of the chaos following Trump's order banning entry into the US from nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries — and in the wake of reports that Bannon was the chief architect of the policy — the hashtag #PresidentBannon began to spread on Twitter, and images of Bannon as a puppet master pulling Trump's strings became commonplace.
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The case also contains intriguing allegations about how the NetSuite deal really went down, including:Implying that Ellison was really the puppet master of this deal by making it clear he wanted Oracle to buy NetSuite and to bail NetSuite out when Oracle began to compete head-on with it and "NetSuite was suffering as a result," the documents say.
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The Oregon star had been called "the puppet master" by her mentor, Kobe Bryant; she is projected to be the top draft pick this April in the W.N.B.A. Instead, Ionescu must contend with having had the biggest stage of her career ripped away, first with the death of Bryant and then with the cancellation of the N.C.A.A. season.
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The show has never quite known what to do with Oberyn Martell's shrewd paramour, and in George R. R. Martin's novels she's much less of a presence, let alone a puppet-master; while the Sand Snakes are itching for war with the Lannisters, the book version of Ellaria hopes to see an end to the conflict and a quiet life for her daughters.
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A vocal admirer of Hans Hoffman, Stella seems to have reversed the terms of that painter's famous theory of spatial push and pull and applied it to his physical relationship with his viewers: first pulling them in, only to better push them out, alternating attraction and repulsion in a peculiar game of puppetry, with the artist as puppet master and the viewer as puppet.
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She modeled for Rick Owens, posed nude with swans for acclaimed photographer Joel-Peter Witkin, appeared as a puppet in Dr. Dre's "Puppet Master" music video, became the breakout star of Marilyn Manson's "The Dope Show," acted opposite Carrie Fisher in the 1986 cult movie Hollywood Vice Squad, and played a female mobster and a number of Tennessee Williams heroines in a series of films directed by the filmmaker and archivist John Aes-Nihil.
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