And what if you could collect these tiny, rotund old men, or befriend them by spraying them with some kind of mysterious perfume the tiny, rotund old man guardian gave you?
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She lives there alone, attended by two amiable, rotund cats.
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Both rotund, middle-aged men, they are equally brash and insensitive.
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If you're a rotund app-controlled racing robot, that's ok too.
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In another, she plays a rotund factory worker musing about architecture.
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The Beluga and its rotund cargo compartment have serious hauling power.
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Male bears are bigger but Beadnose was deemed to be more rotund.
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Some are fluffy and rotund, while others are bizarre-looking and scrawny.
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But what's the the one thing this cute rotund droid is missing?
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The Shop-Vac, in all of its red, rotund, space-eating glory.
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Tardigrades These rotund little animals can withstand extreme heat, cold, pressure, and radiation.
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Once upon a time CeeLo was the lovable, rotund frontman of Gnarls Barkley.
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Inside was a rotund clay pot covered by a triangle of woven leaves.
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Eight very rotund tiger sharks were taking turns feeding on the oily white carcass.
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The only part of UNG viewers saw in that episode was his rotund belly.
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Just in the past week, a rotund porcupine, who seemed equally startled by me.
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So the skin was filled until it was smooth, leaving a rotund, anachronistic animal.
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The silvery, rotund exterior of previous models was streamlined, and replaced with a metallic frame.
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The barrel-chested Wade, the most rotund sauropod found so far, weighed about 22 tons.
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A passerby approached, extremely rotund, clad in a leather jacket, and with very dirty hands.
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His tiny alien avatars are simple and rotund, merging one tubular body part into the next.
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Days passed, weeks passed, and the onion ring didn't shrivel, didn't mold, stayed golden, crunchy, rotund.
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Consider, for example, rivers red with salmon and bears so rotund their bellies nearly scrape the ground.
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Yet, The Sleep Judge recommends the mattress for more rotund individuals because the zoning distributes weight well.
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I run my hand along its rotund bumper, picture it in candy apple red, baby blue... yellow!
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"Just looking at the makes me chuckle because they are so rotund and cute!" she tells me.
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As often as not the middle-aged man was the rotund, balding, diminutive Mr Banfi, now aged 82.
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You're trying to save his paramour, Daisy, from rotund dog catcher Wayne and the scrum-cap wearing Dwayne.
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He increasingly resembles his grandfather, a national deity, down to the coifed flattop, gregarious grin and rotund waist.
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Until that rotund middle is reduced, Mr. Cotterman of Altman Weil said, nonequity partners will not be anomalies.
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But both movies feature an evil vizier with a pet bird, and a rotund king with a beautiful daughter.
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Or a tiny, rotund old man in a fun hat, or a business suit, or a little bear costume.
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Savannasaurus's hips were at least 3 feet (1 meter) wide, making one of the most rotund sauropods ever discovered.
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Writers like Marianne Kirby (The Rotund) and Kate Harding (Shapely Prose) made phrases like "health at every size" familiar.
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Whether it's his rotund figure or his "mired in the depths of ennui" eyes, BeeJay became an instant star.
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He had an impish smile and rotund frame, and an affinity for cheap menthol cigarettes and expensive sports cars.
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The horticulturist selects three miniature fruit, bright green and rotund, which together fit easily in the palm of his hand.
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The primary difference is that Morgan's figures are more unselfconscious, rotund, raunchy, uncouth, loony, and scandalous than their mainstream counterparts.
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Instead, the ensemble is on full display — everyone from a rotund James Corden to an artificially green-eyed Idris Elba.
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Since then, humans have been searching for their other half to make them feel like a complete, rotund being again.
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At a rotund 210ft 5in, the two-times president is a genuine heavyweight in all senses, down to the ego.
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Sam is widely seen as an authorial surrogate for George R.R. Martin, with his rotund figure and love of books.
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LONDON — To many, a pregnant woman, in all the magnificent bountifulness of her rotund belly, is the glory of her sex.
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He's a small man, with a big rotund belly and a bright red face turned to leather with years of sunburn.
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For $130 apiece, the Sonic and Eggman shoes are meant to resemble the speedy blue hedgehog and rotund, red-clad scientist.
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So Maxo Kream manifested almost everywhere, shirtless and rotund, rattling off effortless but tangled catechisms about growing up Hoover in Houston.
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The hamster is looking nice and healthy and plenty rotund, albeit slightly terrified (hamsters aren't the best at posing for photos).
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Until Dennis Roberts entered stage right in a wet suit, jutting out his rotund belly to emphasize his seal-like silhouette.
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Not the trunk, rotund and rotted inside and long since shored up with cement, like a cavity in a bad tooth.
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We'd watched their bodies get bigger (or in the case of the previously rotund Kennedy Meeks, smaller) and their skills improve.
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Hope your future is full of more tasty sewer morsels and pipes wide enough for your rotund form to fit through.
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Every year, the Katmai National Park & Preserve in southern Alaska celebrates its rotund ursine friends with a contest for the fattest bear.
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Rotund and jovial, Mr Gabriel can be a loose cannon; he recently gave a group of far-right protesters the middle finger.
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You control an adorable, rotund yeti and can wander around the mountains as if you were playing a third-person adventure game.
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Some of the best hitters in the world fail against Kershaw, let alone an endearing, rotund part-time bat swinger like Colon.
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With encouragement from various townspeople and a little bit of magic, an annual tradition builds up around this rotund, apple-cheeked stranger.
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A rotund blue vase shape in the upper-right corner might read like a female counterpart — vagina, womb — to the phallic serpent.
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Katmai National Park's bears spent the summer gorging on 2503,2503-calorie salmon, and they've transformed into rotund giants, some over 2503,22014 pounds.
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The Sport Turismo treatment solves the problem of the Panamera's rotund rear end by making the back of the car even larger.
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Katmai National Park's bears spent the summer gorging on 2747,2747-calorie salmon, and they've transformed into rotund giants, some over 1,000 pounds.
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Katmai National Park's bears spent the summer gorging on 22020,500-calorie salmon, and they've transformed into rotund giants, some over 1,000 pounds.
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Katmai National Park's bears spent the summer gorging on 2747,2435-calorie salmon, and they've transformed into rotund giants, some over 2435,22016 pounds.
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News reports from around the world still poke fun at the rotund rogue dictator, but take on an increasingly ominous tone these days.
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Now she works full-time on textiles, illustrations, and paintings with recurring themes of nature, featuring a rotund female figure she calls Husa.
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Who could make up Rob Goldstone, the rotund, vodka-swilling, chocolate-inhaling, British publicist who liked to party at the Russian Tea Room?
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So it's no wonder then, that while he has so much physically straining work in December, Santa still manages to be quite rotund.
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Or perhaps President Donald Trump -- with the thatched locks, rotund frame and fragmented speaking style, it gets harder and harder to tell them apart.
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He was honored with a memorial service on Friday morning, and will lie in repose at the U.S. Capitol Rotund before services on Saturday.
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Walking along with President Obama in 2013, Xi was compared to the rotund Pooh bear, kicking off a flurry of only lightly disguised ridicule.
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Tombili had become an Internet sensation after a photo showed the rotund cat lounging on the street, one paw jauntily hanging off a step.
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The rotund, red sweater-clad undecided voter became a celebrity following his appearance at a presidential debate, thanks to his name and sartorial choices.
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No insult intended but the white beard suggests you are past retirement age and your rotund physique does not bode well for your health.
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It's often referred to as "belly fat," but that's kind of a misnomer because it makes it seem like all rotund bellies are bad.
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What are the chances of being tackled to the ground by five rotund forty-somethings in high-vis jackets, before even reaching the pitch?
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Pikas — the diminutive, rotund relatives of rabbits that live in rocks at high altitude — appear to be retreating to higher altitudes as climate warms.
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There were soaring Art Deco columns framing enormous arched mirrors; little round tables covered in crisp white tablecloths beneath rotund black-and-white chandeliers.
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"The two men are only a few years apart in age, and look alike, both rotund, given to bellicosity, and otherwise all business," writes Burleigh.
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A friend once told me that she noticed her therapist's stomach growing more rotund with every session but neither of them ever acknowledged her pregnancy.
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Françis-Claude Desarthis, 73, the theater's rotund, cherub-faced owner, ambled down the aisles, swinging a brass bell to signal the start of the show.
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I have always thought of Bartolo as an older, rotund control pitcher who was, like, extremely hilarious when the National League forced him to bat.
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In the eccentric "Mother of Silence" of 1933, a rotund Buddha-like shape evokes an ethereal version of Picasso's 1905-6 portrait of Gertrude Stein.
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Like La Delice, an 82-year-old pastry shop at 372 Third Avenue with a life-size statue of a rotund baker near the threshold.
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A rotund man holding a pig on a stick faces off with an austere penitent, holding a baker's peel on which there are two fish.
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He was a rookie—a rotund, clean-shaven young man whose discomfort was unmistakable; he looked as though every task in here, in prison, pained him.
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The rotund, cigar-chomping jazz enthusiast has served in practically every senior government job bar prime minister in a 49-year stint as a Tory mp.
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Mr. Lukach was a short and rotund figure who wore thick-framed glasses and practiced a blend of Afro-Caribbean religions like Yoruba, Santería and Voodoo.
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What if you could keep one of these tiny, rotund old men in an immaculately decorated shoebox and feed him cupcakes and strips of medium-rare steak?
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My face looks like the kind of chubby blonde girls with rotund pink cheeks that you see in Baroque paintings, which is a vibe I don't hate.
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"It's weird," Mr. Nenshi, a rotund, curly-haired 44-year-old, said one recent afternoon as he sat behind the large wooden desk that dominates his office.
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What becomes of us all as the magical delirium of Christmas wears off and we find ourselves, dazed and rotund, staring down the barrel of continued winter?
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" He begins to wear the kind of "expandable webbed leather belt favored by rotund country club golfers, which grew and shrank with the size of one's trousers.
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Yono is an adorably rotund little elephant who is off to save the world by solving puzzles a-la Zelda, head-butting enemies, and making friends with chickens.
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As the name was uttered, flashbulbs went off and journalists clamored around a rotund face: That of Mathias Énard, who had just won for his magnum opus, Compass.
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I also had genuine conversations with everyone from slightly overweight cubs to rotund daddy bears on the condition and how they manage CPAP machines in their sex lives.
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Once the progression made it to New Park Pizzeria, a 22006-year-old Sharpton, rotund, with a track suit and a perm, went in and ordered a slice.
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What can I wear that won't render me a sexless lump, but will maintain comfort and oxygen intake, because I definitely feel more rotund than I did yesterday?
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A rotund, gregarious gourmand, he enjoyed nothing so much as a bountiful table and Cuban cigars as he grew wealthy from duties on oil exported illegally through Turkey.
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He's not the only one fond of the bed: the cat took to the enormous slab of foam like it had been built just for his rotund little body.
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The jolly, obscenely rotund ringleader of this band is, of course, Falstaff, a nobleman with a flagrant lack of morals who delights in splashing around the sewers of London.
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Yet they don't look quite how we envision dinosaurs today; the Iguanodons appear like rotund iguanas, the Dicynodonts like overgrown turtles, although contemporary knowledge suggests they never had shells.
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While Felix the Cat was a star, other balloons were essentially inflatable sculpture, whether the rotund elephant with floppy legs in 1927 or an incredible sea serpent in 1937.
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Others shared pictures of Winnie the Pooh, an internet meme that plays on Xi's supposed likeness to the rotund cartoon bear, an image censors have repeatedly tried to remove.
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Falstaff, the usually rotund companion to Prince Hal (the future King Henry V), is played here by a relatively lean Joel Edgerton, opposite Timothée Chalamet as a stylish Hal-Henry.
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Oyster mushrooms (maitake, chanterelles and the like) have lots of nooks and crevices, which allow them to get even more delectably crispy than the more evenly rotund creminis and white buttons.
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It is easy to be annoyed by his style—he sometimes acts like a circus barker and uses unnecessarily rotund language ("chuntering from a sedentary position" is one of his favourites).
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The new version of the rotund robot has clearly seen some stuff, matching the lived in/battle damaged aesthetic that has forever been a defining characteristic of the Star Wars universe.
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Punk Punk goes down for its 284th consecutive week after Sex Pistols singer Johnny Rotten was spotted hanging his increasingly rotund body out a window wearing a giant, red MAGA shirt.
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But it was the rotund, courtly son of an Austrian classics teacher who was the dazzler-in-chief, inexhaustibly unearthing facts, analogies, literary allusions and personal connections from his elephantine memory.
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The cuddly critter's rotund belly disguises a microphone, which Yu Hui uses to send rambling updates and songs to her parents; it lights up when she gets an incoming message back.
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Marine scientists later confirmed the enigmatic beauty as a piglet squid (Helicocranchia sp.), so named for its rotund shape and swine-looking snout used to siphon water like a jet pump.
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Madelbos is instrumental in the hiring of a rotund, decadent voice teacher, Atos Pezzini (Michel Fau), a fading operatic tenor in desperate need of money whom he blackmails into coaching her.
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It's been a year and four months with my stupid fiancé and our very rotund cat and about 15 feral raccoons that live in our backyard and are now my terrible children.
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Hogan's Heroes, the sixties sitcom with loveable Nazi buffoons like the rotund Sergeant Schultz, whose worst war crime was binging on apple strudel, is enjoying new popularity on the "MeTV" cable channel.
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But within a few days, the masterworks were decimated—ripped down, spray-painted, and otherwise torn to shreds by folks who just couldn't stand the sight of our future president's rotund, naked bod.
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The ball, in turn, will get so rotund that it will roll directly onto the game's lead character, who has been idly dozing in a cardboard box the whole time but finally awakens.
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There are the historical, calendar-based ones—Ancient Egypt and their pyramids; the Tudors and their worryingly rotund kings; the Mayans and their world-ending prophecies—and there are also geological and cosmological periods.
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Each is a rotund cylinder, entirely symmetrical and making no ergonomic accommodations, and they appear to charge via a metal strip that sits like a belt around their midsection (so no Pogo pins required).
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Inside, Alloush, a rotund, gray-haired, chain-smoking Kurdish lawyer from Kobanî, was talking with two men: an S.D.F. official, in a suit, and an Arab sheikh, in a kaffiyeh and traditional white robes.
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The National Park Service has capitalized on the increasingly rotund population by live-streaming the hungry bears and creating an online bracket in which 12 of the park's paunchiest are pitted against one another.
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Just your usual dick-free tower, a typical and absolutely unassuming addition to the skyline, absent of anything that may make it look like a massive schlong and a set of rotund, oblong balls.
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If she concentrated enough on Fifer's hand and on her own choreography (it really was challenging to dance around in a rotund pig's belly), she could almost convince herself that she wasn't real at all.
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Asterix, short but crafty, is always flanked by his rotund friend Obelix and his loyal dog, Dogmatix, as the trio repeatedly foil Julius Caesar's plans in exploits that take them from England to Ancient Egypt.
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The film follows a rotund Sicilian priest in a friar's frock and wool hat; in one scene, he yanks on the bangs of a woman who grunts at his command that she love her neighbors.
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Pyongyang is terrified at the prospect of its population learning how their neighbors in South Korea are living as compared to the North Korean "paradise" granted them by the rotund leader on the white horse.
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A rotund gentleman reading a newspaper, a young girl clutching a toy, and a sour-faced woman doing her nails are just a few of the incredibly expressive characters Hershy captures on her Instagram account.
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Like Xi, Pooh has a rotund face and nose, and netizens have been taking split-screen pics of the two making similar poses, including one of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shaking hands with Xi looking downtrodden.
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Father Christmas himself, the rotund, red-faced old bastard himself is as much a harbinger of a loss as he is a shiny new BMX left in the garage with a bow-tie affixed to the handlebars.
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Against the backdrop of a luxurious apartment far beyond their modest means, Mr. McGrath, playing the rotund blowhard Ralph Kramden, was apologizing to Ms. Kritzer, as his endlessly forgiving wife, Alice, for another harebrained scheme gone awry.
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This year I will also think of Abbas Ali Hussein, a rotund Iraqi English teacher fond of Dickens who translated American novels like John Irving's "A Prayer for Owen Meany" into Arabic for his high school students.
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The Moroccan-born Zerkani, rotund and shaggily bearded, earned the dark nickname Papa Noel, which means Santa Claus in French, for his apparent generosity to the thieves and prospective fighters he brought into ISIS's fold, the Telegraph reported.
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Facing elimination, the rotund southpaw Lolich gave up three runs in the first inning of Game 2500, then held after that as the Tigers staged two rallies, one begun by a Stanley triple, for a 2000-2301 comeback win.
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As a result, several presidents in the mid-19th century to early 20th century -- from William Howard Taft to Theodore Roosevelt -- had rotund body types, said Amy Bentley, a historian and professor of food studies at New York University.
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He quite enjoyed being likened to Samuel Johnson, the great 21961th-century critic, essayist, lexicographer and man about London, who, like Professor Bloom ("a Yiddisher Dr. Johnson" was one appellation), was rotund, erudite and often caustic in his opinions.
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They also posted a few photos of The Duke on Imgur: The new Duke stays pretty true to the original controller's design, including its oddly rotund shape and the short-lived black and white buttons on the right side.
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The hook of the glossy new animated feature about the macabre family is that it returns to the look of those original Addams cartoons, capturing the tentacled train of Morticia's dress, Gomez's rotund figure, and Wednesday's oval face in perfect verisimilitude.
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Housed inside the Marlborough Chelsea gallery, the Mr. Softee show, titled after one of its most prominent pieces, features seven rotund works ranging from more than two dozen in diameter, to other works that barely measure larger than a fingernail.
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Short and rotund—much the same shape, in fact, as Kim Jong Un—he was smartly dressed, polite, and seemed genuinely interested in (or at least not annoyed by) explaining himself to another innately suspicious journalist from a Western publication.
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Mr. Martin, a rotund man with glasses whose striped gray jail garb stood out in an ornate federal courtroom here, sat silently during his first public appearance as his lawyer, James Wyda, argued that he should be released while awaiting trial.
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The rotund Italian tenor was joyous and generous, raising money for children in war-torn places including Bosnia and Kosovo, bringing opera to the people and traveling with his own prosciutto slicer, pots, pans and kilos of tortellini and cheese.
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The spherical form of the theater situated the spectators around the edge of the rotund form, which, according to Gropius, set up a new perceptual rapport with the performance and enhanced the sense of immersion within the presentation of the spectacle.
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The rotund Harris flicked out a pair of linear, low-line kicks with his lead foot as if to tell the world that he had in fact been learning and growing with each day since the bout had been agreed.
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Its Shirley PVC tote, Moreau macramé bucket and rotund Bissett bag have been imitated by a slew of mass retailers and seen on the arm of every editor and influencer worth their salt, not to mention the brand's 197k Instagram followers (and counting).
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But it's much, much more fun to send a robo-kitty (it's… a rotund little kitten-faced robot that distracts enemies), to bait a bunch of tourists to crowd the room, blast them, and watch the whole enemy operation dissolve into cartoon giblets.
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In the midst of postdoctoral work in 1978, she was invited to join Argiris Efstratiadis, Walter Gilbert ("a rotund, jolly genius," as she remembers him), and a handful of other researchers at Harvard to work on cloning insulin in E. coli bacteria.
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The rotund Aorigele, who fell to Choi and isn't a stranger to controversy himself, has become somewhat of a cult hero on the Chinese MMA scene and he needed a big-name opponent to draw in casual eyes and build his own star.
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When International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach visited Pyongyang in March, the rotund North Korean leader told the German: "Even if it may not look like it, I love to play sport, and especially basketball," The Wall Street Journal reported, citing Bach.
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The bookshelf speakers contain entirely new internal speaker designs, as the form factor is nothing like any existing Sonos hardware on the market, and that means you end up with a different sound profile versus the more squat, rotund Sonos One and Play:1.
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This would seem to align with Sonic Generations, which featured both fully 3D Modern Sonic platforming levels starring the more recent iteration of the character and side-scrolling Classic Sonic stages, featuring the more rotund version of Sonic from the original Genesis box art.
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Imagine, if you will, that every time one of your snacks went missing, every time something in your room was slightly askew from how you left it, every time anything in your home was slightly amiss, the culprit was a tiny, rotund old man.
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When I heard about Franco's acting stunt, I was skeptical: The duplication trick could easily have become the focus of the show, as the brothers attempt to become smut impresarios with the help of a rotund, industrious mob boss named Rudy Pipilo (Michael Rispoli).
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Abroad in America LAS VEGAS — Outside the Four Queens casino in downtown Las Vegas, just past Elvis and a pregnant burlesque dancer, stood "Baby Donald" — a rotund man in a rubber Donald J. Trump mask, wearing a diaper and clutching a giant baby bottle.
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On a screen behind Mr. Kentridge, projected images of pages of text spun by furiously, rich with his trademark charcoal-drawn characters, including birds, horses and human figures: soldiers proud and defeated, a rotund German general from World War I and Mr. Kentridge himself.
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Team Kirby Clash Deluxe might not be the finest hour for HAL's rotund mascot—heck, it's not even the best Nintendo game this month with Deluxe in the title—but it's become a daily tonic for me, and a fillip for a console I prematurely cast aside.
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In two-plus seasons with the Mets, Colon, a rotund veteran with an unflappable demeanor on the mound and a batting helmet that sometimes spins off his head when he swings, has earned folk-hero status with an endearing approach to the game that occasionally defies logic.
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Every year on March 9, we celebrate the genius of the dearly departed The Notorious B.I.G. This usually involves theories about how he was hip-hop's lyrical GOAT—but the occasion is rarely used to spotlight the rotund rapper's esteemed contributions to the ancient art of coprophilia.
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The Hate: The Cavs are going to hatefuck the Pistons into oblivion so why should I care True, this battle of acid-rain rustbelt towns is probably going to be a lopsided bummer, but the Pistons are a frisky bunch, led by an equally frisky if pleasingly rotund coach.
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In the days before their first fight, Joshua, built like a statue, was seen as the future of the division, and the rotund Ruiz was supposed to be a mere stepping stone on his path to a big-money fight against another top heavyweight, either Deontay Wilder or Tyson Fury.
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Herein, I hold this truth to be self-evident: The Shop-Vac — the magnificently rigid and rotund tub on wheels, which looks something like a stout, squashed R225.97D2 — remains unmatched by any other consumer-level vacuum, save for heavy-duty canister vacuums with sealed motors, such as the Miele C2 Electro+.
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To help you cast informed votes, each day both Mashable and Katmai National Park will post "dueling" comparison images of each bear — from their early summer state to their present, rotund forms — so you can judge just how fat they've gotten this summer while devouring the skin, brains, and vivid red flesh of sockeye salmon.
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These sorts of hoaxes are old hat for social media, which has carried everything from Hillary Clinton allegedly posing beside a confederate flag, photos of Trump made to look either thinner or more rotund, edited video of Trump making a weird snake noise, and a host of anti-Clinton conspiracies about the then-candidates mental and physical health.
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" Gin Lane was accompanied by another print by Hogarth called Beer Street, which extolled the happy and carefree virtues of vast tankards of foaming ale, depicting a hive of industry as rotund and happy Englishmen down pints of beer, the "happy produce of our isle … we quaff thy balmy juice with glee and water leave to France.
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Among the items in his own backpack, Tahir carries a book, a comb, a bar of soap, a roll of toilet paper, a toothbrush, hair gel and packets of vitamin C. One of the most cheerful marchers is Bahlul Patyal, a rotund pharmacist who left his drugstore and month-old infant daughter in Lashkar Gah to join.
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Myers sees the popularity of Ask A Porn Star as a piece of the rise of "normal" porn performers like Sasha Grey, who stood in contrast to the more outré stars who gained mainstream popularity in the 1990s, like Jenna Jameson, the epitome of the big-breasted blonde archetype, and the hirsute, rotund Ron Jeremy, who represented the other extreme pornstar stockplayer.
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That this didn't bother me is a testament to the allure and evocative power of almost every piece on view, from tiny jade pigs intended to serve as hand warmers for the dead to a life-size, terracotta statue depicting a rotund strongman — a performer in an acrobatic troupe who likely entertained the imperial court of China's first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi.
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Activities include mandatory attendance at baroquely conceived yet joyless song-and-dance sessions led by the hotel's matronly manager (Olivia Colman) and her rotund husband (Garry Mountaine); or, more disturbingly, group outings to the Forest to hunt down Loners, a secret society of hotel escapees that fetishizes singledom—"No sex, or flirting," admonishes their severe leader (Léa Seydoux)—as much as the City endorses traditional domestic pairings.
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Van Gundy's effortless, endlessly entertaining charm has garnered the lion's share of his team's expanding media attention; his nonchalant claim that LeBron James won't be called for offensive fouls, mid-game, earned him a $25,000 fine: Stan has also said, in recent days, that it's "a travesty," that his rotund and lustily mustachioed self wasn't included on Sports Illustrated's new "50 Most Fashionable Athletes" list.
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I worried that the alarm clock I bought as a stand-in for my phone alarm — a rotund plastic polar bear sunbathing in a lounge chair at what nearby signage indicates is the North Pole, holding a bottle of Coca-Cola in each hand, set atop a circular red digital clock base printed with the Coca-Cola Company logo — was broken, because I couldn't get it to sound.
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Given the right dimensions, any character, creature or even object can be adorable: Bambi and Thumper, famous rodent lovers Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Cinderella and her fat mouse friends, a hairy giant and a walking eyeball in Monsters Inc, a decrepit robot called Wall-E, Woody and the Toy Story heroes, all 101 dalmatians, rotund British national treasure Winnie the Pooh, a melting snowman called Olaf, and whatever that pudgy white inflatable robot thing is from Big Hero Six.
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The characters included the "coon," a denigrating synonym for anyone black; the "zip coon," the free black person depicted as a buffoon for affecting independence, literacy and fine dress; the rotund "mammy," who was made to stand in for all black women as she patrolled the kitchen wearing flowing clothes and an apron; and the pickaninny, the bestial child whose pigtails stood straight up in the air and who was often maligned as a watermelon thief.
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Nearly every object commands your attention — they are, simply put, sexy — but among the most alluring ones are small, utilitarian items you'd commonly find in a Japanese home, made of gleaming materials: a white bronze incense burner shaped like a rotund but refined mandarin duck; metal smoking sets adorned with plant motifs; an enameled porcelain sake cup washing bowl with a Constructivist design; and, my personal favorite, a sake flask in the form of an Akita — the dog officially designated a Japanese Natural Monument in 1931 due to its population decline.
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In the larger of the two works, which is roughly five by eight feet, a middle-aged man in casual dress ambles across the foreground, his face turned away from the viewer, as if he too is surveying the goings-on: at the far end of the room, suave fellow in an emerald green shirt waits for service at a counter; a man on the right lights a woman's cigarette, which she holds in an extended hand rather than to her lips; smaller, sketchier figures engage in not-easily-discernable activities that might be illicit, or might simply involve routine maintenance; behind the service counter, but separated by a pillar from the man in the green shirt, a rotund clerk holding a key glances up at the viewer from across the enormous room.
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