The host Guardsman was Robert Young and when the writer arrived at the drill site, a farm in the Virginia Piedmont, he immediately removed all of the writer's modern clothing and accessories, giving him dirty, worn-out clothing and tiny spectacles.
The stereotype of an admissions counselor is an old man, probably wearing a paisley tie paired with penny loafers and has the tiniest spectacles tipped on the edge of his nose.
But I know which night I'd enjoy the most, and it doesn't involve sticking tiny wire spectacles on dead owls.
Besides those big marvels, smaller, clever moments abound: When a snake, manipulated by a puppeteer, is shown reading, another performer reaches out with a long pole to hold a tiny pair of spectacles in front of its eyes.
We were taken to see a show by a children's theatre group, a jarring spectacle where tiny performers belted out folk songs venerating North Korea's founding father, Kim Il-sung, while staring in adoration at a vast projection of his beaming face.
(A Santa with a patchwork velvet cloak and tiny red-rimmed wire spectacles is $680).
Jodi Kantor correctly notes that postage-stamp-sized television screens are incapable of displaying much detail, then asserts that "what the tiny new televisions lose in spectacle, they make up in intimacy" ["The Extra-Large, Ultra-Small Medium," Oct. 30].
Instead, either pick a place on the carpet to fix your eyes or become absorbed in the spectacle of your tiny fingers being devoured within his enormous, muscular fist.
The mousy school principal who hires him, Rosalie Mullins Joan Cusackk), is a model of nervous rectitude behind whose spectacles flashes a tiny glint of rebellion.
Here's a full list below, but it's tiny so break out the spectacles.
