"Most of the scenes are stage managed," the officer said.
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So far Mrs Merkel has stage-managed her exit to perfection.
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What do you make of claims that the coup was "stage-managed"?
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This wasn't stage-managed: Some looked bored, others gazed around, kids played.
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White House reshuffles are usually stage-managed to suggest renewed purpose and vigour.
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But Judge Rose said there was something "stage managed" about this stormy meeting.
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Conventions used to be completely stage-managed and choreographed from start to finish.
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It's the rare public appearance for the chief executive that isn't stage managed.
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The performance was carefully stage-managed — but it wasn't all smooth sailing getting there.
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Everyone thought it would be a carefully stage-managed film about his fabulous life.
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In a stage-managed referendum, ninety-seven per cent of Crimeans voted to join Russia.
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Other attendees complained the event had been heavily stage managed to distract from their dissatisfaction.
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So the convention is a carefully stage-managed PR event to formalize a long-known outcome.
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But Mr. Trump, who bridles at being stage-managed, ignored their advice to project dignified steadfastness.
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In 2019, we can expect a deluge of 5G hints, announcements, teasers, promises, and stage-managed demos.
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THE timing was impeccable, to the point where one might wonder if it had been stage-managed.
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And Mr. Trump, the former host of "The Apprentice," stage-managed it like a reality-TV reveal.
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And of course repression continues, even if it goes unseen by visitors to carefully stage-managed events.
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He later denied allegations that he'd stage-managed the situation by having his henchmen plant the bombs.
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" These pas de deux between prosecutors and corporate chieftains came to feel "stage-managed, rather than punitive.
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It was absurdly stage-managed, with state security agents directing how I was to behave and speak.
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Last year, at the G-7 summit in Ottawa, Canada, Trump threw typically stage-managed proceedings into disarray.
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The person taking the footage opens with a shot of the food, which itself looks very stage-managed.
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It was choreography he stage-managed himself: a high-visibility, high-stakes summit with his favorite authoritarian leader.
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As is his willingness to publicly explode the usually staid and stage-managed international gatherings like the G7.
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Since Mr. Trump went on the attack, the Clinton campaign has carefully stage-managed Ms. Machado's media appearances.
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The first minister is not without her critics inside the party, hyper-centralised and stage-managed though it is.
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He came to power in a stage-managed, opposition-free election that he won with 89% of the vote.
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However stage-managed the elections, they may fail to mask the cracks likely to emerge as the economy slows.
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Others claim that Trump's apparent authenticity resonates with cynical voters who have grown tired of stage-managed political campaigns.
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No food has been more obsessively studied, no diet more fiercely controlled, no dining experience more anxiously stage-managed.
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Those who pass away while in office are laid to rest in stage-managed events, more spectacle than remembrance.
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Indeed, the way Wright has stage-managed the latest revelations about himself seem inconsistent with what we know about Nakamoto.
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Mr Bouteflika was tipped to win a fifth term as president, the only viable candidate in a stage-managed election.
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They were among the 2,500 journalists who were granted press credentials to cover the highly secure and stage-managed event.
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The whole thing was stage-managed by Qassim Suleimani, the shadowy commander who runs external operations for Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
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It's a no-exit theater of war, invisibly stage-managed by a military underling with an instinct for human frailties.
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It was very carefully stage-managed, but the way he wrote it, the way he acted it, it's so natural!
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The Alan Sugar of the boating world awkwardly exchanged fulsome compliments with the actor in a weird, stage-managed circle-jerk.
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After that Isaacs carefully stage-managed his media appearances and kept to script — with State Department handlers advising him or in tow.
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Kazakhstan's government "temporarily disrupted internet connectivity, blocked ... news websites, and restricted access to social media platforms" during its stage-managed presidential transition.
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The seven candidates on the debate stage managed to keep their fire trained on President Donald Trump for most of the first hour.
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A constitution passed in a stage-managed referendum in 2016 gave the generals the right to appoint the entire upper house of parliament.
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Ahead of a stage-managed election last month, King Vajiralongkorn made plain in public statements his desire for soldiers to continue running affairs.
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The people attending the conference had no idea they were acting in a drama that simulated reality but was stage-managed from afar.
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Gandhi and Yadav have both turned for advice to Prashant Kishor, the strategist who stage-managed Modi's triumphant 2014 march on New Delhi.
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Actual decision-making will take on the flavor of a stage-managed press conference, where ideas are sanitized and no mistakes are confessed.
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It's a contrived and heavily stage-managed premise — but contrived in a Dickensian sort of way with coincidences that reverberate with philosophical significance.
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The highly stage-managed announcement in January gave him the chance to demonstrate what he called the "fierce urgency" to respond to mass shootings.
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Ever since 1972, when the Republicans began scripting their speeches with evening television audiences in mind, the quadrennial gatherings have been tightly stage-managed.
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The reason that people knew about his defiance of Bush and Cheney is that Comey himself told Congress, at a stage-managed 2007 hearing.
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Neon plans to release an official beta version of this very early software interface at a stage-managed event later this year called Neonworld.
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The night of my town hall, I knew the crowd was effectively stage-managed and that many people there didn't live in my district.
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Kirshenbaum's peek behind the Iron Curtain was heavily stage-managed, but his account is sprinkled with interesting tidbits about the GDR's pursuit of sporting excellence.
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This being Trump, the proceedings were not exactly stage-managed to perfection, and there were definite winners and losers at the end of the night.
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Egypt's strongman grows stronger: President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has been granted new power over the judiciary and Parliament after a heavily stage-managed referendum.
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From 21992 through 222, an independent group, the League of Women Voters, hosted the debates, and repeatedly rebuffed major-party demands for safe, stage-managed affairs.
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But his image has been carefully stage-managed, obscuring policies that track much further right than his shirtless photobombs and parade appearances are designed to suggest.
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Unidentified soldiers (the so-called "little green men") surrounded Ukrainian bases in Crimea, and within days Russia had pulled off a hastily organized, stage-managed referendum.
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Voters seemed to believe that Trump's often rambling, hard-to-understand speeches were evidence that he was an authentic politician who refused to be stage-managed.
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And this led to talk of other restaurants that, like Romera, presented diners with expensive, stage-managed tasting menus, involving many dainty courses and scant choice.
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The reporters had been stage-managed, again, for their subject's benefit; summoned for a punishment, and a spectacle, this time to the White House briefing room.
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Paired with one of the best-known and least-trusted nominees in Presidential history, Kaine has helped the Clinton campaign look less frosty and stage-managed.
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A pro-government mob entered the parliament building during the meeting, in a clumsily stage-managed attempt to demonstrate to television viewers that a popular "revolution" continues.
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For the most part, the vote will be an exercise in stage-managed democracy, with favoured candidates from the ruling United Russia party ubiquitously sailing to victory.
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While the event is viewed as an opportunity for Putin to reach out to everyday citizens it has been widely criticized for being scripted and stage-managed.
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During his carefully stage-managed visit this week, Mr. Obama does not plan to meet with Fidel Castro, 89, the former president, who is Raúl's older brother.
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With the hosts out of their loops and real bullets flying everywhere, the park is now territory to be claimed, not territory to be carefully stage-managed.
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Once public hearings begin, expect a highly stage-managed affair, where Democrats tee up their most vivid and damaging points early for viewers with short attention spans.
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But what you have to understand is most people who have some sort of profile interface with the public have been managed, stage managed, they've had media training.
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Such demonstrations can be stage-managed; and information that allows us to go through the verification process independently was provided too late for us to do so fully.
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Police have suppressed sporadic demonstrations against his stage-managed succession to the presidency earlier this year, after the abrupt resignation of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the strongman of 3003 years.
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She has stage-managed several shows, including last year's Tony Award-winning revival of the Arthur Miller classic "A View From the Bridge," directed by Ivo van Hove.
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That Xi did not take part in a stage-managed outing like Monday's before now had led to widespread speculation about what was going on behind the scenes.
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"This film confirms the reality that everything is stage-managed," said Robert Boynton of New York University, author of a book about North Korea called The Invitation-Only Zone.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel took another step in her stage-managed exit from politics on Friday, posting a video to announce the closure of her Facebook (FB.
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If there is anyone Facebook has to win over, it is Mr. Liu, who has for years presided over the controls on China's highly censored and stage-managed media.
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In a stage-managed vote, the country approved a set of constitutional amendments that arm President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi with expansive new powers over the judiciary and Parliament.
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And so instead, we get a heavily stage-managed Christmas video from the first lady, showing her clad in all black, walking alone through vast, empty, expensively decorated rooms.
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MOSCOW — Mainstream television in Russia, stage-managed by the Kremlin, barely mentions Pussy Riot, the anti-Putin punk band, or Aleksei A. Navalny, the country's most prominent opposition figure.
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Christie's knack for this type of stage-managed, lopsided confrontation placed him firmly in a local political tradition alongside less-entertaining retribution-minded reptiles like Rudy Giuliani and Alfonse D'Amato.
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Macron, who has earned a reputation as a maverick by attacking pillars of France's social model like its 35-hour work week, has stage-managed suspense about his presidential ambitions.
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Her personal life has felt as stage-managed as her professional life as far back as her squad and the constant welcoming to the stage of her last world tour.
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Ladislaus Rwakafuuzi, a lawyer for Mr. Besigye, said the treason allegations against Mr. Kabaziguruka and the army officers were "stage-managed" in an effort to keep Mr. Besigye in jail.
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After delivering a conventionally stage-managed victory speech on Tuesday, Mr. Trump returned to Twitter the next morning to attack the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" for covering him unfavorably.
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A stage-managed departure seemed unlikely to satisfy the street, which has increasingly helped drive the country's political agenda, an unusual development in Algeria's nearly 60-year, post-independence history.
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That became clear this week when an unscripted Trump returned to his initial "both sides" formulation on Monday, after reading a stage-managed denunciation of white supremacists and neo-Nazis.
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Democrats, still unhappy with how Barr stage-managed the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report earlier this year, are aiming at the attorney general as they begin impeachment proceedings.
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Finland's Aamulehti newspaper reported that the changes had been planned before the Finns Party chose a new leader, suggesting the process had been stage-managed - an accusation dismissed by the government.
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Although widespread unrest is unlikely—Turkmenistan is a police state—Mr Berdymukhammedov doubtless wants to restore at least a semblance of economic stability before the next stage-managed election in February.
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Kevin Percival and Olivia Jimenez, who both stage-managed OpenMind in addition to playing roles, have education backgrounds and have been developing ways to use interactive performance techniques in learning programs.
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Although the ruling junta is theoretically restoring democracy via an election on March 24th, the process was looking stage-managed to preserve the generals' sway and keep Mr Thaksin at bay.
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Even looking at Keane's later years, the stage-managed rivalry with Arsenal's Patrick Vieira tends to be recalled through a lens of 'my dad could batter your dad' playground one-upmanship.
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Britain's Channel 4 News reported on Monday, based on secretly recorded video, that Cambridge Analytica secretly stage-managed Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta's campaigns in the hotly contested 2013 and 2017 elections.
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On the other hand, having a bomb—and the means to deliver it to the U.S. homeland—gets you a stage-managed summit, as North Korea's Kim Jong Un has demonstrated.
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To some observers, the sudden shift seemed carefully stage-managed, a way of building up suspense before Mr. Putin's surprise announcement, helping portray him as a wise leader above the fray.
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He will put lots of money into a glossy but slightly otherworldly political institute, give occasional speeches at stage-managed venues, write op-eds for broadsheet papers, perhaps even endorse political candidates.
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Athletes are extras, dates occur during curling practices, and there is a little thrill in being granted access to the backstage of one of the world's most selective and stage-managed events.
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The aspiring actresses, models, and musicians who made up Paris Hilton's My New BFF were willing to be edited and stage-managed by the show's producers for a slice of the action.
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What to watch: The stage-managed parade will involve some 300,000 participants and an exhibition of military might, including 15,000 soldiers, 160 aircraft, and weapons that have never before been displayed publicly.
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Related: Putin's New National Guard Strengthens His Grip on Security as Russian Economy Falters Although questions could be submitted by text message, email, or social media, the event was heavily stage-managed.
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Even a stage-managed resignation, which both main parties would prefer—Ms Park would negotiate a date for her departure, perhaps months down the road—would be too little too late, he says.
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At times, people were unwilling to entertain the notion of a "human" North Korean and instead suspected I had fallen for elaborate setups or that the North Koreans had stage-managed my photography.
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It was a chilling end to a convention marked by a million little screw-ups, from Melania Trump's plagiarism to Ted Cruz's poorly stage-managed non-endorsement to Trump's alarming comments on NATO.
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" As quotations from a New York Times article flash onscreen, the narrator exaggerates the article's findings: "She called those women 'loony toon,' and stage-managed their destruction from a White House war room.
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By the time he died on Saturday, Mr. McCain had carefully stage-managed a four-day celebration of his life — but what was also an unmistakable rebuke to President Trump and his agenda.
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Myanmar's generals — who ruled the country for nearly half a century and turned a resource-rich land also known as Burma into an economic failure — stage-managed every facet of the political transition.
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Hilmy Ahmed, vice president of the Muslim Council of Sri Lanka, said the Shafi accusations were largely "stage-managed" by Rajapaksa supporters to create anger at the government ahead of this year's presidential election.
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Those instincts and his team's inexperience with the trappings of government have run headlong into the carefully choreographed and stage-managed traditions of the Presidency — a show that's been running for hundreds of years.
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At the behest of Speaker Carl Albert (D-Okla.), Majority Leader Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill, Jr. (D-Mass.) stage-managed the process leading-up to the final impeachment votes in the House Judiciary Committee.
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From the opening scene, in which Meyerists aid survivors in the wreckage of a tornado that looks precisely like a TV set of a tornado's wreckage, the show has a cool, stage-managed unreality.
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Nxivm had not granted access to a journalist for an article for 14 years before it gave me a tightly stage-managed tour of its leadership and operations this winter, ahead of potential indictments.
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Among the scenarios, it said some had speculated it was a "false flag" event stage-managed to give President Tayyip Erdogan an opportunity to purge the military of opponents and extend his grip on Turkey.
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NEW STRUCTURE The low-key nod to Airbus's heritage differs from a stage-managed PR event in Toulouse a week ago, which focused on future technology and data in front of 130 journalists and bloggers.
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But the visit was highly stage-managed, and Mr. Trump never faced the crowd; the most my friends could do, they said, was raise a middle finger to the sky as his aircraft flew overhead.
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Jumping off the roof into a swimming pool—if your party is anywhere other than a carefully stage-managed set on a film about American students letting loose at college—it's a bad idea. 96.
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And more symbolically, Uber's sell-off was embarrassing for an IPO process that is typically so carefully produced and stage-managed, especially given that Uber has been the iconic startup of its vintage in Silicon Valley.
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On a carefully stage-managed swing through the Philadelphia suburbs, Ms. Trump avoided mentioning the 2005 recording or a series of accusations by women who said the Republican nominee had gone beyond braggadocio to active groping.
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This has only become more apparent with the recent rise of ISIS, whose stage-managed executions often appear to have TV-level production budgets and depict ever more gruesome crimes designed to capture the media's attention.
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Those large spreads in the exit polls are more likely a knock-on effect of the masterful way his campaign turned the Democratic Party's consolidation behind his candidacy into a stage-managed, made-for-television event.
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As the two become besties, the movie makes the not-revelatory point that Taylor's stage-managed life — including her dream of opening a boutique ("my Instagram, but in real life") — is barely less fraudulent than Ingrid's.
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On various occasions, Jammeh and his officials told reporters he was dead, had fled the country and had "stage-managed" his disappearance, according to an annual human rights report published in 2012 by the U.S. State Department.
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Last week alone, potentially embarrassing details concerning telephone calls with the Australian Prime Minister and Mexican President, as well as allegations that Trump's Supreme Court nomination process was being stage managed, saw the cold light of day.
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" It was also dismissed as carefully stage-managed pro-MAGA propaganda: "they filmed him from above to make him look smaller," said one writer; a journalism professor noted the interviewer's voice "drips with white-on-white empathy.
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Mark Turnbull, a managing director for Cambridge Analytica and sister company SCL Elections, told Channel 4's undercover investigative reporting team that his firm secretly stage-managed Kenyatta's hotly contested campaigns to run the East African nation.
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After a largely stage-managed meeting — described as a "diesel summit" — they announced plans to update the software in 5 million cars to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides, the byproduct of diesel most harmful to human health.
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But in general, because Miss Americana is focused on the latter half of Swift's career — not the carefully stage-managed early one, which her savvy parents famously helped her build — there is a lack of dramatic tension.
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Each seemed to intuit that Mr. Wolfe's carefully stage-managed assaults on liberals were the precursors to much larger attacks against progressive values, attacks arguably reaching an apotheosis in the rhetoric of Donald Trump and Fox News today.
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Appropriately enough, and knowingly or not, the last play Mr. Martin produced, a London revival, was the very same one that he considered the capstone of his career 56 years before, when he stage-managed its Broadway debut.
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The accounting of online taste rewards virality, which means that hip-hop — not the stage-managed collaborations typical of major labels, but street-hot music that's spreading at warp speed — is becoming more formally popular, faster than ever.
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Both the Mass Games and the military parade have been criticized by human rights advocates and North Korean defectors for the pressure placed on performers and for painting a distorted picture of the country through stage-managed displays.
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Perhaps I'd be more sympathetic if the Oscars hadn't included an attempt at an off-script sensation -- the stage-managed arrival of a bus of random tourists who found their way into the front row of the Dolby Theatre.
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The book traces Madison's "evolutionary odyssey from 1786 to 1789," an extraordinary period in which Madison stage-managed the Constitutional Convention and the ratification debate, wrote a substantial portion of the Federalist Papers and drafted the Bill of Rights.
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While the vote is expected to be a stage-managed confirmation, along the lines of those in China and Russia last weekend, it has exposed a rumble of discontent inside the security establishment that appeared to rattle Mr. Sisi.
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Europe's longest-serving leader, Merkel announced last October that her fourth term as chancellor would be her last and that she would not seek any political post after her term ends, beginning a stage-managed gradual exit from politics.
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Over the years, as Mr. Lukashenko has sought to demonstrate his independence, he has periodically picked fights with Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin — stage-managed affairs that have been quickly patched up in highly public displays of Slavic brotherhood.
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The death put pressure on the Egyptian authorities to improve conditions in prisons, and in November they led foreign reporters on a stage-managed tour of the Tora prison complex south of Cairo, where many political prisoners are held.
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IZHEVSK, Russia (Reuters) - In a stage-managed gesture of benevolence a year ahead of a presidential election, Russia's Vladimir Putin flew 1,200 km (750 miles) to call in on a woman living in squalor and ordered her to be rehoused immediately.
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That's a stage-managed demo designed to emphasize Nest's advantage, to be sure, but I was still left with a very positive impression of the image quality obtained from what's typically been a quite drab and unexciting category of hardware.
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Merkel began a stage-managed gradual exit from politics in October, when she said her fourth term as chancellor would be her last and that she would not seek re-election in 2021, when the next federal election is due.
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One EU official even said the last-minute hitch may have been stage-managed to give the British prime minister some scope for saying she had fought hard for her position with the EU. Juncker hailed May as a "tough negotiator".
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On April 30, Netanyahu took his anti-Iran appeal online, in a clumsily stage-managed English-language press conference, in which he stood alongside a utilitarian metal bookcase full of bindered documents that he claimed the Mossad had exfiltrated from Iran.
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Critics say the event, being held a week before the World Cup starts, is a stage-managed piece of theater designed to let Russians let off steam and fleetingly feel as if they can influence a bureaucratic, top-down system.
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One EU official even said the last-minute hitch may have been stage-managed to give the British prime minister some scope for saying she had fought hard for her position with the EU. Juncker hailed May as a "tough negotiator".
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The tests come at a particularly sensitive time for Beijing as the ruling Communist Party's National People's Congress convenes for its annual gathering, a carefully stage-managed political showpiece during which political sensitivities are heightened and distractions are especially unwelcome.
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Having seen a couple kissing—he had been too slow and shy to grab his camera as they did it—he asked them to do so again several times, eventually capturing a moment full of unrestrained happiness that was, paradoxically, stage-managed.
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"The day after the Prime Minister's stage-managed visit to Scotland ... this unique and positive cooperation between four of the five parties at Holyrood indicates Scotland's strength of feeling on Brexit and the Prime Minister's untenable position," they said in a joint statement.
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If, while he was alive, Ray Johnson had perfected his performance of the role of "Ray Johnson," then why couldn't — or wouldn't — he have painstakingly stage-managed the final act of his life's what-you-see-is-not-necessarily-what-you-get spectacle?
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It's nostalgia for what something stood for in their mind rather than what it actually means, in much the same way that Tony Soprano's "strong, silent type" spiel emphasises what happens when inspiration is taken from a stage-managed version of an individual.
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During his first visit to China as president, the Chinese stage-managed his public appearances, allowed no questions after his joint news conference with Hu Jintao, then the president, and refused to broadcast his town-hall-style meeting in Shanghai on state television.
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The Clinton campaign emails that were made public by WikiLeaks on Monday show the degree to which Hillary Clinton's aides stage-managed her policy announcements, and the extent of their anxiety as they tried to explain her changed positions on certain issues.
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The media waits to catch a glimpse of Chapo being marched to a navy helicopter Minutes before, Attorney General Gómez had run through the intelligence prowess she claimed had made it all possible at a carefully stage-managed press conference at the airport.
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Around the time of the trial, Saturday Night Live mocked the brothers' abuse allegations as a carefully stage-managed ruse, in a sketch where John Malkovich and Rob Schneider acted out a parody of their testimony as wild theatrics meant to game the system.
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Nevertheless, in a landscape in which most product launches are stage-managed down to the second in a controlled environment, the effort was a sign that the Oculus understands the challenge it has ahead of it in terms of broad adoption of the device.
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I think you need somebody who is the embodiment of that, who can articulate that, and who also isn't going to be so stage-managed so that everything seems poll-tested, because I also happen to believe that people vote for somebody they trust.
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As the office grew, he was the only Muslim, a fact that didn't seem to bother Ko Ni. Myanmar's military announced an end to half a century of junta rule with a stage-managed election in 2010 that allowed generals to exchange their uniforms for public office.
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Where Big Brother would be tightly edited, directed, and as stage-managed as The Truman Show, Quiet—at least in theory—would be feral, unedited, and interactive, with each participant given their own Japanese-style sleeping pod, fitted with CCTV camera streamed live to their own channel.
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With each passing year, more and more facets of popular culture become something like wrestling: a stage-managed "reality" in which scripted stories bleed freely into real events, with the blurry line between truth and untruth seeming to heighten, not lessen, the audience's addiction to the melodrama.
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But to suggest that Ms. Newman might have been playing to the cameras would have required the administration of Mr. Trump — who campaigned on the decisive-leader image that "The Apprentice" stage-managed for him — to recognize that reality TV can convey an inaccurate impression of people.
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Incredibly beautiful Hollywood stars who attempt to appear quirky, but are stage-managed to within an inch of their lives Indulging in medium to large behavior at awards ceremonies may, to the untrained eye, appear to be something that someone with big dick energy might do. Pranks. Jokes.
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Not surprisingly for a vote that Mr. el-Sisi and his allies stage-managed from the beginning, the authorities said Tuesday, less than 24 hours after the polls closed, that the final count showed the amendments passed 89 percent to 20173 percent, with a turnout of 44 percent.
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Gordon writes: With each passing year, more and more facets of popular culture become something like wrestling: a stage-managed "reality" in which scripted stories bleed freely into real events, with the blurry line between truth and untruth seeming to heighten, not lessen, the audience's addiction to the melodrama.
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With Chinese politicians studiously dull and the country's statecraft closely stage-managed, salvos from the state-controlled news media — which President George H.W. Bush, a former United States ambassador to China, called cannons of rhetoric — offer a more direct, and inflammatory, guide to the thinking of the Beijing government.
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The Trump-related kerfuffle appears, by contrast, to have been stage-managed by a clever reality-TV star with a lifelong commitment to proving there is no such thing as bad coverage: Mr Trump claimed the rally was called off by the police, who tartly replied that that was nonsense.
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But if you couldn't learn anything about what our 17 intelligence agencies actually do during this conference, you could at least learn something about how some government agencies have adopted the dubious ethic of "transparency," which seems to boil down to running carefully stage-managed public-outreach events like this one.
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He often said, though, that the pinnacle of his career was being the production stage manager in 1956 of the original Broadway production of O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night," one of a dozen Broadway shows he stage-managed after abandoning a brief acting and singing stint in his 20s.
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In the 1950s, at least a dozen US diplomats were recalled to Washington after admitting sexual liaisons with KGB partners, and, in 1981, the US assistant military attaché to Moscow - "the best Russian-speaker in the American Embassy" - returned to the US following "a party stage-managed by the KGB".
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" He started laughing his head off, but the cunt still wouldn't go outside... So you could say that it's helpful that he's acting, but the persona that he's adopted is a gruff one, so I get a bit fed up when I see those stage managed pictures of him being "in character.
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This month the crux of the drama is the Synod on Young People, a meeting of bishops in Rome that like prior synods in the Francis era is a chance for the pope to prod some alteration of church teaching on sexuality through a process stage-managed to give the appearance of consensus.
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In a report about the videos issued Wednesday, titled "Broadcasting Injustice, Boasting of Mass Killing," the rights group Amnesty International accused Iran of having used stage-managed confessions, falsehoods and sensationalist screen titles like "In the Devil's Hands" and "In the Depth of Darkness" to justify the mass hangings to a domestic audience.
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" It's a breathtaking piece ("voters deserve better than this," it says at one point, decrying that instead they're being offered "a one-sided, stage-managed charade of scaremongering, spin… and censorship"), with the arguable highlight coming midway through when it offhandedly states, "of course, by 'England', like Amery in 1939, we mean the whole of the United Kingdom.
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Meanwhile, the Seventh Korean Workers' Party Congress, held in early May after a 36-year hiatus, argues for a stable political system emerging from years of transition to the rule of Kim Jong Un. For all its stage-managed improbability, politics in Pyongyang stand in stark contrast to what is taking place less than 200 km away in Seoul.
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The revelation that Jeremy is "one of the world's leading experts on surveillance" sits awkwardly with his inability to fact-check threatening strangers' stories, and as the plot begins to creak through various twists and turns, stage-managed either by the author or his unreliable narrator, Jeremy can sound more like a nervous novelist than a traumatized professor.
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We are more than four months after the conclusion of Mueller's investigation and three months after Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Mueller report fades from political conversation Barr removes prisons chief after Epstein death MORE's stage-managed release of a redacted version of the report.
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But here's the part that should make Republicans scared, rather than merely ashamed: The fact that Trump is pulling this less than 12 hours after the end of a highly stage-managed, scripted convention acceptance speech is as clear an indication as we're going to get that he's still Trump, and he will always be Trump.
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In doing so, she has created a new paradigm for what it means to be a pregnant woman in the public eye — one in which the very act of conceiving and carrying a child (or two children; she is having twins) becomes de facto proof of the power of femininity, doled out in carefully controlled and stage-managed moments.
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But they also fuel the novel's more tendentious and stage-managed sections, which feel willfully constructed to italicize the bankruptcy of the war and the worst crimes, like torture, committed by some American soldiers — a take on the war that is as constricting in its own way as what Mr. Scranton has assailed as the myth of the trauma hero.
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Following Trump's carefully stage-managed announcement, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni put out a joint statement in which they pledged to implement the Paris climate agreement notwithstanding the withdrawal of the US. They also asserted that the US could not unilaterally renegotiate the 2015 agreement -- contrary to a suggestion made by Trump during his Thursday announcement.
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Stress-testing the system, early and often During his brief time in Washington, Trump has casually trashed the stage-managed status quo refined over decades by his predecessors, openly endorsing his wide authority and, just 10 days after his inauguration, flirting -- for the first time -- with a constitutional crisis by firing the acting attorney general after she refused to defend his travel ban in court.
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Since the resignation in March of Nursultan Nazarbayev, who had ruled the country since 1989, there have been sporadic protests against everything from the stage-managed election that resulted in victory for Mr Tokayev (Mr Nazarbayev's choice as successor), to the renaming of the capital, Astana, as Nur-Sultan in honour of the ex-president, who is thought to still call the shots from behind the scenes.
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It's probably a sign of the times, as celebrities increasingly refuse to come off their carefully stage-managed platforms to engage in unorchestrated interactions with unpredictable outcomes (see: the trend toward even mid-list stars agreeing to sit on the front row of fashion shows and be photographed, but not agreeing to say a word to the attending press about why they are there).
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In recent months he criticised his sister's plan to run for prime minister with a party opposed to the ruling military regime (in effect barring her from doing so); he told Thais to vote for "good people" to avoid "chaos" ahead of a stage-managed election on March 24th (inspiring the hashtag #OldEnoughToVoteOurselves to trend on Twitter in Thai); and after the contest he stripped Mr Thaksin of his royal decorations.
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But while he was urged by his aides to behave in a more unifying manner after the White House was criticized for initially flying the American flag only briefly at half-staff in Mr. McCain's honor, the president made it clear on Saturday that he had no intention of letting his former adversary — whose carefully stage-managed plans played out as his own subtle rebuke of the president — have all the attention.
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One of the virtues of Steve Inskeep's new book, "Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War" (Penguin Press), is that it tracks this American phenomenon back to something like a satisfying starting point—the life of the Frémonts and their pursuit, in the eighteen-forties, of the Oregon Trail, the very first real American adventure that was cynically stage-managed for propaganda (and commercial) value.
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These horrifying incidents, and Roy's introduction of myriad minor characters, however, do not result in a Bruegel-esque portrait of a country but instead feel like poorly stage-managed detours from the compelling stories of Roy's two heroines: the transgender woman Anjum (born Aftab), who's gone to live in a Delhi graveyard; and Tilo, a former architecture student, who travels to Kashmir to visit her longtime friend and sometime lover Musa, a freedom fighter, who is in constant danger and constantly on the run.
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