Players have learned to manipulate story line and character within the video game worlds, with gamers playing characters, and one acting as the camera man.
Thus, the show was not forced into manipulating story arcs introduced in the pilot to create artificial cliffhangers.
Manipulating stories, and giving them flesh (and song), is the task of both "Matilda" and Matilda, and their endeavors run parallel.
Mr. Brooks was able to raise these subjects by the canny way he manipulated the story's tone, Mr. Grazer said.
Our increased appetite for non-fiction is a crucial factor in both the inception of A Million Little Pieces and the subsequent persecution of James Frey - a persecution that seems particularly vicious when you consider that a man who is known to have manipulated the story of his own past is allowed to occupy the White House.
They hear government communications and it conjures thoughts of massaging messages, spinning statistics or manipulating media stories.
"Traditionally, what you want to do is keep them apart so they don't manipulate their stories," said Lee D. Schinasi, a law professor at the University of Miami School of Law and a former vice dean at the Army Judge Advocate General's School in Charlottesville, Va.
The people who manipulate these stories probably think they're part of some brave new wave of vocal campaigners defending the rights of Christians; in reality they spread fear among their flocks and damage the image of their faith.
The ministrels manipulate the story with coarse explicitness, begging for attention in a servile way, predicting future events in the story and promising that it will be interesting and instructive, shifting scenes obtrusively, reflecting on the characters' motives with partisan prejudice.
A wordless tale told entirely through manipulated photography, the story concerns a small, hand-sewn stuffed monkey (like a young cousin of Curious George) who finds a lone egg sitting on the floor of Storywoods Forest.
