Word: dwarf
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Created in 1925, the Giant started out looking more like a scowling dwarf, and he wasn't even green. Years later, this hunky mascot was named the third most recognizable icon of the 20th century by Advertising Age (behind the Marlboro Man and Ronald McDonald). His role was diminished in 1991, but the Giant resurfaced last August in a new print campaign...
...other hand, consider an older Spaniard like Ignacio Zuloaga, long regarded as the discreditable essence of flashy, virtuoso academism. The picture he has in the show--a portrait of a sulky-looking, middle-aged dwarf holding a mirrored sphere the size of a soccer ball, in homage to that god of all Spanish realists, Velazquez--is a masterpiece of unsparing scrutiny and direct painting, and it brings you up with a jerk...
...Althing decided to exile him for three years, so Erik sailed west to explore a land he had heard about from sailors who had been blown off course. Making his way around a desolate coast, he came upon magnificent fjords flanked by lush meadows and forests of dwarf willow and birch, with glacier-strewn mountain ranges towering in the distance. This "green land," he decided (in what might have been a clever bit of salesmanship), would be a perfect place to live. In 985 Erik returned triumphantly to Iceland and enlisted a group of followers to help him establish...
...across the Potomac from Washington. In a metropolitan area swarming with museums, this one is unique. Having opened only last May, it's too young to have earned a must-see designation on capital tours, and with an exhibit space of only 2,200 sq. ft., it's a dwarf among the Smithsonian titans. Its theme--"Illegal Drugs in America: A Modern History"--isn't the ordinary stuff of sightseer oohing and aahing. But it's a strangely compelling place nonetheless, fast gaining popularity among area schools and youth groups. The museum is part propaganda, part history lesson...
Taller Than a Dwarf...