In so many cases, it's a failure of our leaders — Republicans, who prey on the fears of their constituents and don't even bother anymore to hide the puppet strings pulled by large corporations, and Democrats, who too frequently forget that humans are supposed to be vertebrates (and hence to have a spine) — to speak to Americans' ambivalence about guns.
Ms. Fong and her partner in Chinese Theater Works, Stephen Kaplin, present "Whitesnake" with Chinese music and singing, rousing Kun Opera-style martial arts and elaborate shadow puppetry, using antique donkey-hide puppets.
If you're lucky you might even stumble on a street-puppet theatre that performs occasionally outside a rent-a-car shop on the corner of Western Avenue and Elmwood, where a crowd of in-the-know Angelinos and lucky out-of-towners sits on the pavement in the dark while a hidden puppet-master, mysteriously named Almighty Opp, burns cardboard effigies of celebrities.
Small wonder that Mr Bouteflika won his last two elections, in 2004 and 2009, with 85% and 90% of the vote, amid meagre turnouts and a strong whiff of fraud.The question in many minds is why Algeria's hidden puppet-masters should again have backed Mr Bouteflika, despite the fact that he had a bad stroke a year ago and may be unable to complete another five-year term.
The transition between the footage of Lloyd and the puppet was hidden by a single-frame flash as a bolt of lightning struck Kruge.
As a fugitive, Daniel arrived at Cornell University on a motorcycle, gave a speech before thousands of students, and left campus with his head hidden inside the head of a Bread and Puppet Theatre puppet.
But on Awkward Puppets, he's mostly hidden with his hand stuck up the backside of Diego, a middle-aged mustachioed man in a boring marriage who produces comically uncomfortable silences.
This week he will appear on Teachers TV delivering French with a broad Yorkshire accent using Pierre, a puppet, to hide his embarrassment.
A map to Skywalker's whereabouts is hidden inside droid BB-8, a lovable little robot who looks a Mr Men puppet.
