Cultural References
- In the movie Zoolander the character Mugatu entices Derek Zoolander to model for his fashion label by offering to build an educational facility and shrine to Zoolander's dead friends called "Derek Zoolander's Centre for Kid's Who Can't Read Good and Other Things". Mugatu shows Zoolander a scale model of the centre and Zoolander freaks out because he thinks it is at 1:1 scale, and thus, very small. He demands that the building must be at least "3 times the size".
- In the movie This Is Spinal Tap, the band request a stage design of the Neolithic site Stonehenge to accompany their song of the same name. Instead of the full size, tiny models are built as it turns out the units on the construction drawing were marked as inches (") instead of feet (').
- Season 7 of TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation dealt with the pursuit of The Miniature Killer, a serial killer who would leave a half-inch scale model of the crime scene at each of the murders.
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“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)
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