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face=Georgia><FONT color=#222222>Hand puppets can get away with saying just
about anything. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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color=#333333>As innocent extensions of their handlers, Burr Tillstrom’s Kukla,
Fran and Ollie, </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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color=#222222>Sherri Lewis’ Lamb Chop and Jim Henson’s Muppets charmed and
educated golden age TV audiences with their cheery dispositions, disarming
naiveté and clandestine moral guidance.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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color=#222222>More recent wood and fabric fabrications such as
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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Dunham’s abusive Walter, </SPAN><SPAN
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color=#222222>Robert Smigel’s </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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the Insult Comic Dog, and the ensemble in <SPAN
class=apple-converted-space>Broadway’s bawdy “Avenue Q” give voice to their
creators’ progressive social commentary and particular political
leanings.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Georgia>And then there’s Tyrone, the profane and demonically possessed sock
puppet who currently rants against religion on the Dobama Theater stage in
Robert Askins’ outrageous comedy “Hand to God.”</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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