marionette

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Metz’s workshop is directly behind Fairyland’s puppet stage, and it’s a mini marionette museum, filled with books, pictures and, of course, puppets.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

Fashion and culture magazine Dazed said it "captured the public's imagination with its broken marionette looks and Pat McGrath's glassy, porcelain make-up".

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2024

At one point, he seems to become a marionette: the vertical line of the microphone stand dividing him in two, with gyrating arms and legs seemingly independent of each other.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2023

A classic marionette might have eight to 10 strings.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2023

And each time I ask a question, she jerks up and down in her desk like a marionette, while her hand waves over the bowed heads of her classmates.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez