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...then there is the physical damage sonic booms may cause. The "Disasters caused by sonic booms" tells of some of the famous boom catastrophes. Shurcliffe has a knack for the cute story, and his most picturesque tale here is of the Air Force official whose speech minimizing sonic boom problems was interrupted by a sonic boom that blew out windows all around...
Tiny paintings are intrinsically no more interesting than large ones. The danger that the behemoths run is of be coming bombastic; midgets must combat a tendency to seem cloyingly cute. Since what counts, however, is not an artist's limitations but how successfully he transcends them, both can hope for im mortality. Indeed, they are flip sides of the same coin: both rely on scale to create an effect...
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Into his life wheels an automobile that the family dubs Chitty Chitty Bang Bang because of the way it chug-chugs and a beautiful lady named Truly Scrumptious because of the way she mug-mugs. Cute romance is in the air, cute songs flood the sound track, and the children, pining for Truly (Sally Ann Howes), utter the unkindest cute of all: "If he kisses her, then they'll hafta get married...
They walk more slowly, seeing each other in their wounds, not wanting to heal them. A kind of precocity, except that they're too old and its been done before. Suffering has gotten a bit too cute for the leisured elite. And what about the others...