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  • He simply crossed his body-builder arms and fixed me with his usual scowl.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • Being developed by Spiderman co-creator Stan Lee, the Governator will be a semi-fictional character based on the body-builder turned actor turned politician.

    Arnold Schwarzenegger's Alter Ego Comic Character Revealed 2011

  • He simply crossed his body-builder arms and fixed me with his usual scowl.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • He simply crossed his body-builder arms and fixed me with his usual scowl.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • The window opened again, and I got a glimpse of a body-builder wearing a black overall, with the letters OES on it, pointing a 14 mm at me.

    Blonde, Black and Blood Red nathreee 2010

  • Oh, and she was a body-builder for a while, and then she just took sex when she wanted it from him.

    Shes not bad, shes just drawn that way, doh! 2009

  • Ads in the comic books showed how a 97-pound 7 stone weakling had sand kicked in his face by a bully until he sent off for the Charles Atlas books, turned himself into a body-builder, returned to beat up the bully and won back his girl.

    David Cameron makes the U-turn a sign of macho strength | Simon Hoggart 2011

  • Melinda's show featured three women artists whose work riffed on traditionally male occupations: one of them was the body-builder, Lisa Lyon, who showed up for an interview in the gallery memorably stark naked, her body gleaming with oil.

    Peter Clothier: PST: Best Kept Secret Peter Clothier 2011

  • Lou Ferrigno, the hulking world class body-builder, actor and iconoclast was there.

    Edward Lozzi: The Cats of Beverly Hills Edward Lozzi 2010

  • Scott Fitzgerald wrote "There are no second acts in American lives," he had no notion that a body-builder with a funny accent would someday go on to run the most populous state in the nation.

    Celebrities' First Jobs Nicole Perlroth 2010

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