Two years ago, Sotheby's offered a 10¼–inch-tall ivory depicting Pluto, god of the underworld, abducting the goddess Proserpina, with a presale estimate of $120,000 to $150,000. ❋ Unknown (2012)
PITTSBURGH—Amber, a canine athlete, recently won first place in an agility competition, narrowly beating out Daisy, a Chihuahua, in the 4-inch-tall category. ❋ Clare Ansberry (2012)
All we have are our eyes, and what at first seems like a sea of ivories and browns reveals bowls in intense greens, jars with lively blue-and-white decoration, incised vegetal motifs faintly visible beneath thick glazes, and such startling pieces as a 24-inch-tall polychrome jar 16th century with paintings of winged horses and demon-headed creatures. ❋ Lee Adair Lawrence (2012)
Fill the 6¼-inch-tall vase with candy, flowers a brass liner was added to the 2012 version or, if you must, Camels. ❋ Unknown (2012)
Fred Haan, a mechanical engineering professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind., builds 5-inch-tall houses and blasts them with simulated tornadoes in a lab. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Worn by priests for particular rituals, they are strikingly similar to the ornaments that a 15th-century sculptor cast in silver on the 12-inch-tall dancing goddess displayed nearby. ❋ Lee Lawrence (2011)
Randy Harris for The Wall Street Journal Dennis Anderson in his truck Grave Digger in Syracuse, N.Y. To reach the pinnacle of his profession, Dennis Anderson relies on innovation, risk-taking and a methanol-alcohol-fueled 1,500-horsepower engine and 66-inch-tall tires. ❋ Carrick Mollenkamp (2011)
Loping around a white-walled university workshop, the brawny, 6-foot-3-inch-tall professor shows off shiny aluminum parts for the landing craft, spread around the floor like giant Lego pieces. ❋ James R. Hagerty (2011)
Or at the superbly cast 11th-century brass statue of Kalachakra, whose 12 arms split at the wrist to provide this 8½-inch-tall deity with its 24 prescribed hands, each clutching a hallmark implement. ❋ Lee Lawrence (2011)
Hennessy-Owen had a Somerset, Pa., foundry cut the 9-foot, 11-inch-tall statue out of a quarter-inch sheet of steel. ❋ Unknown (2011)
One is about the Miami Indian Chief Little Turtle, and another is about six inch-tall aliens who eat hair and sleep for twenty-three hours a day. ❋ Cindy (2010)
We join him as he learns for the first time how humanity has beaten the galactic speed limit of C (i.e. it hasn't); why cute little deerlike aliens are never to be trusted (they like meat ...); and how to kill inch-tall, spacefaring people (go Godzilla on their asses). ❋ Big Jim (2008)
The lead character in MvA is Susan Murphy (voiced by Reese Witherspoon), a bride-to-be who is struck by a meteor on her wedding day and transformed in the 49 foot, 11 inch-tall Ginormica. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I had a hard time not grinning at the thought of kicking around an army of inch-tall soldiers. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Aliens range from bear-like to pterodactyl-like creatures to deadly slime mold beings and inch-tall pests with deadly firepower. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The 6-foot-6-inch-tall teenager who had rolled into Enumclaw the day before had frequently been seen around local businesses. ❋ Robert D. Keppel (2005)
