Word: deforming
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...bodybuilding flick. Although not a muscle beach spectacular featuring Mike Marvel and his "he-man" friends (in six weeks you can look like this or your money back), the film also would disappoint anyone hoping for an incisive psychological examination of why men would suffer so much pain to deform their bodies. In quasi-documentary form, Pumping Iron cleverly hypes bodybuilding and its main character, Arnold Schwarznegger...
...become well known as a designer and cartoonist: "I guess you could call me a critic of society, all societies-but especially the wasteful consumer society. My defense against the aggressiveness of objects is derision, humor. I deal with objects everyone is familiar with, like a hammer. I deform them and people get a shock. Children react the best, intellectuals second best...
...circular railroad-type track in only nine minutes. Its plate-and-mesh reflector can be tilted 90° from a point directly overhead to the horizon in only half that time. Furthermore, the telescope has been so meticulously designed that the stresses caused by such movements deform its reflector by no more than about four-hundredths of an inch, an important factor in maintaining a sharp "image." Not the least of the antenna's advantages is its site: located at the bottom of a tree-lined valley, it should be well shielded by the surrounding hills from commercial microwaves...
Neutrons produced by the ABM blast could also cause crippling damage at a range of about two miles. Penetrating into the ICBM's outer shell of uranium 238, they can produce slow fission, causing heat that may deform the warhead or set off its lens charges. The neutrons may also whiz into the warhead's core of uranium 235, causing it to explode in a premature nuclear blast while still hundreds of miles from its target...
...with all new and potent drugs, many questions arise: Just what are the pills? How do they work? Are they certain? Are they safe? What are the disadvantages and discomforts of using them? How long can a woman go on taking them? Could they cause cancer or deform babies in the womb...