News: Miles Orvell cited in New York Times
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Miles Orvell, Professor and Director of American Studies, was cited in a story on the apparent cultural ubiquity of cuteness in the January 3, 2006 Science section of the Times. In an article, “The Cute Factor,” Orvell trenchantly observed that biological propensities aside, the market has a special gift for appropriating cuteness to its own end. ''The new Beetle looks like a smiley face… By this point its origins in Hitler's regime, and its intended resemblance to a German helmet, is totally forgotten,'' he noted to Times reporter, Natalie Angier.
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