puppeteer

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It's quite a shot to the ego, especially if the puppeteer is a radio talk show host.

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  • Rachel collapsed and writhed like a marionette jerked about by a mad puppeteer, then lay still, consciousness fleeing down a bright white tunnel. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 02 - February 2001
  • It's quite a shot to the ego, especially if the puppeteer is a radio talk show host. —  Arkansas News
  • Personally, I have trouble relating to puppets when the puppeteer is visible. —  North Coast Journal Comments
  • Ferrer's best-known role was probably that of the lame puppeteer, opposite Leslie Caron, in —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • If the Israeli army, or the puppeteer who is moving its barbed wire in Israel, believes they put me out of order wounding me I just want to make a statement for them: poor deluded. —  Palestinian Pundit
 

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