marionette
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“Interestingly enough, when I was growing up, there was a touring marionette theater of Richardson that was one of the first places that excited me towards puppets,” Ortiz recalls.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 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
As if fixed to the same marionette bar, the serpents moved as one, tightening around the raft.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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