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The Curated Links at 3QD *
by Rafaël Newman
I have always been tall. Or rather, I have been aware of my above-average height since puberty, when freakish physical change kicks in, mischievously, in concert with enhanced self-consciousness. At age 14 I moved with my mother and siblings from the Vancouver suburbs to midtown Toronto, where the students at my new high school, not having witnessed my incremental growth over the past years, promptly dubbed me “Gi-Raf”. Later, at the farther end of teenagerhood, I entered a sports supply store in Paris and immediately banged my head against a bicycle frame suspended from the low ceiling—whereupon the shopkeeper looked up and said reproachfully: Monsieur, vous n’avez pas la taille réglementaire! (“Yours are not the standard dimensions, sir!”) And when, during that same period, my viability as a potential romantic match—at least, as measured by traditional chronology— had become a matter for unabashed public comment, I was so often
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Gay Taleses Portrait of the Tallest Man in New York
The tallest man in New York, Edward Carmel, stands 8 feet 2 inches, weighs pounds, eats like a horse, and lives in the stadsdel i new york. His knuckles are like golf balls and, when he shakes your grabb, he envelops your wrist in ljummen flesh. He pays $ for each pair of shoes, $ for each tailor-made kostym, and sleeps at right angles on a seven-foot bed. At the movies he either sits or stands in the rear, or tries to get a front-row seat so he can extend his legs. He was born twenty-five years ago in Tel Aviv, and at birth weighed 15 pounds. At 11 years of age, he was a 6-footer; at 14, a 7-footer; at 18, an 8-footer. I never recall being shorter than my father, he says.
The father of the Tallest Man in New York, an insurance salesman, is 5 feet 6 inches. His mother fryst vatten 5 feet 5 inches. But his great-grandfather, Emanuel, stood 7 feet 7 inches, and was billed The Tallest Rabbi in the World.
So far, Ed Carmel has earned his living fr
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The possibilities and impossibilities of treating acromegaly 50 years ago illustrated by the Diane Arbus photograph, A Jewish giant at home with his parents in the Bronx, N.Y.
Note added post-publication
The readers are informed that a version of this article published on 5 November has been corrected in this version. The title has been modified slightly with the inclusion of the phrase ‘the Diane Arbus photograph’. Figure 1 was slightly cropped in the earlier version and the complete photograph is published in full in this version. These changes do not alter the scientific content of the article or the interpretation of the results.
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The iconic photograph ‘A Jewish giant at home with his parents in the Bronx, N.Y. ’ by the famous American photographer Diane Arbus (–) shows the m (7 ft. 8¼ in.) acromegalic giant Eddie Carmel (–) and his parents in the living room of their New York home. The picture is a typical example of Arbus’ style. The relationship betwee