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  • Online, activists amplified their message with darkly humorous creations such as "Top Goon: Diaries of a Little Dictator," a weekly YouTube series starring a finger-puppet Assad tormented by his conscience and forced to appear on the game show "Who Wants to Kill a Million?"

    Syrians Unleash the Power of Creative Dissent David Feith 2012

  • But what iPad app can replicate a pop-up book, or a book with crinkly pages, or a rubbery cow's nose and the soft suede pad of a puppy's ears, or a finger-puppet going all the way through the middle?

    Don't fear the Reader: how technology can benefit children's books 2011

  • Then there's his sullen teenage daughter, who is more charmed by the finger-puppet shows Victor stages in the makeshift proscenium of the questionable window aperture than the lame efforts of her priggish father.

    Archpaper.com - News Channel archpaper.com 2010

  • Apart from books to give to the children and library, our list includes a little wooden elephant and hippo, a finger-puppet hare, a small mbira (thumb piano) and an oyster shell.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • $5 Kid Meals: New this season, kids receive a PAWS finger-puppet along with a hot dog, chips and a juice box.

    unknown title 2009

  • New this season, kids receive a PAWS finger-puppet along with a hot dog, chips and a juice box.

    WXYZ-TV Detroit - 7 Action News 2009

  • New this season, kids receive a PAWS finger-puppet along with a hot dog, chips and a juice box.

    WXYZ-TV Detroit - 7 Action News 2009

  • Each show will be followed by an optional "make it and take it workshop," where children and parents can make finger-puppet characters.

    unknown title 2009

  • A girl used the overhead projector as a finger-puppet stage and a boy asked if he could smash a photographer's camera.

    AroundTheCapitol.com 2009

  • Our corporations would be more than happy to come in and set up McD's and Starbucks without the CIA and some US appointed political finger-puppet running the show. rcain: How about C) Do Nothing?

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

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