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Using direct transcripts of the conversations proved impossible. "I'd have to have had like these 14-foot balloons with two-inch mice carrying them around," said Spiegelman. "The drawings are stripped down--the text had to be stripped down...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spiegelman Discusses Holocaust, Humor | 3/4/1992 | See Source »

...ATLANTA!" screamed the two-inch headlines last Tuesday, and my hometown was momentarily paralyzed by a wave of disbelieving amazement...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: Athens, Rome, Berlin, Atlanta? | 9/25/1990 | See Source »

...look closely, and then closer still, you will understand why each piece took so long to complete. The attention to detail is incredible. The artists, equipped with kitten hair paintbrushes, individually drew every hair in the brow of every two-inch high prince, and captured the expressions of every tiny servant that populated every prince's palace...

Author: By Angela S. Lee, | Title: Painting Fit For Princes: Sackler Exhibit Opens | 3/2/1990 | See Source »

...bite plates (about $600 apiece) to wear while sleeping or during the day. But some patients grind their teeth so furiously that they bite right through the plates. As a last resort, doctors recommend surgery to repair the joint. Until recently that meant a three-hour operation and a two-inch scar running in front of the ear. Now surgeons are increasingly using arthroscopy, a technique originally devised to correct knee damage. They insert the arthroscope, a thin telescopic tube, through an incision in the jaw and use tiny instruments to wash out debris, reposition the disk or cut away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Treating an In Malady | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

During practice sparring, the trainers cover the birds' spurs with miniature boxing gloves, but at the cockpit a deadly, razor-sharp, two-inch blade is strapped onto each bird's left foot...

Author: By Eugene L. Jhong, | Title: Cock-Fighting in the Philippines | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

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