Sentences with phrase «as ventriloquist dummies»

Comprised of two separate videos, «Ringtone» and «Geisha Song,» the installation features the artist's signature style of using inanimate objects, such as ventriloquist dummies, paper dolls and finger puppets in staged photographs and film to objectify people and express a blend of psychological, political and conceptual ideas.

In fact, he sat there on the political sarcophagus as a ventriloquist dummy as members of the political cartel of which he was a member looted the nation with reckless abandon.

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Please allow the Rev. Dr. King to rest in peace and don't insist of exhuming his corpse to use as a ventriloquist's dummy to mouth whatever words you want it to say.

The «connection» comes when people feel they have a voice, not when they are used as ventriloquists» hapless dummies.

He typed in the query «what was I going to say next,» and like a ventriloquist's dummy, Google delivered up as its top result the first sentence of Frank's next presentation slide.

In this weird crime drama the murder of a ventriloquist is solved by a midget who goes undercover as a dummy.

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The only saving grace of a picture so crowded and perverse as to be unsalvageable is when Carnahan uses Ben Affleck as a literal ventriloquist's dummy, delivering in one stroke the full weight of actual post-modernism the rest of Smokin» Aces labours to manufacture.

An iconic use of the haunted - doll trope, this Alberto Cavalcanti - directed tale of a ventriloquist and his seemingly sentient (and malevolent) dummy has stood as a touchstone of the subgenre — everything from the Anthony Hopkins - starring Magic to recent offerings like Annabelle owe the British horror sequence a debt.

Before he was Hannibal Lecter, Anthony Hopkins delivered a tour - de-force performance in this film from Oscar winner Richard Attenborough (Gandhi) as a mentally unhinged ventriloquist who forms a dark, co-dependent relationship with his dummy, which seems to have a mind of its own.

Has the Mayor eschewed his role as dummy to anti-choice ventriloquists?

Parreno is the initiator, but has sometimes pursued his work in collaboration with colleagues such as Rirkrit Tiravanija (with whom he animated ventriloquist's dummies) or Liam Gillick (with whom he hung a fictional commercial banner along the highway in Bangkok).

Laurie Simmons stages photographs and films with paper dolls, finger puppets, ventriloquist dummies and costumed dancers as «living objects,» animating a dollhouse world suffused with nostalgia and colored by an adult's memories, longings, and regrets.

The smiling Chinese figure in Piggyback (Chinese Down) belongs to a repertoire of characters that Muñoz created including the dwarf, ballerina and ventriloquist dummy, all of whom appear to us as both familiar and strange: «There is something about their appearance that makes them different, and this difference in effect excludes the spectator from the room they are occupying... The spectator becomes very much like the object to be looked at, and perhaps the viewer has become the one who is on view».

Simmons stages photographs and films with paper dolls, finger puppets, ventriloquist dummies, and costumed dancers as «living objects,» animating a dollhouse world suffused with nostalgia and colored by an adult's memories, longings, and regrets.

dp, I wish you and others would stop using Feynman as your ventriloquist's dummy (If I wrote this before, sorry, but it looked like the comment got stuck in limbo).

I wish you'd stop treating Feynman as your ventriloquist's dummy.