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Is there anybody out there with muscle-man Republican-populist appeal who is bigger, meaner, tougher than the indestructible Sarah Palin?
Schwarzenegger’s presidential ambitions Steven E. Levingston 2010
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The painting is the Baroque equivalent of a scene from an R-rated action movie: Four naked women hover in distress, a wounded muscle-man lies at their feet also naked, with what looks like a 17th-century chest wax, the ground around them is stained with blood and the enemy—a crazed wild boar—lurks just out of view.
Rubens's Classical Spectacle, Rated R Ellen Gamerman 2012
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Mr. Hamilton blazed to Pop Art fame in 1956, with his collage from American magazines, "Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?" with its muscle-man provocatively holding a Tootsie Pop and woman with large, bare breasts wearing a lampshade hat, surrounded by emblems of 1950s affluence from a vacuum cleaner to a large canned ham.
Richard Hamilton, 88 and Going Strong Paul Levy 2010
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Mr. Hamilton blazed to Pop Art fame in 1956, with his collage from American magazines, "Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?" with its muscle-man provocatively holding a Tootsie Pop and woman with large, bare breasts wearing a lampshade hat, surrounded by emblems of 1950s affluence from a vacuum cleaner to a large canned ham.
Richard Hamilton, 88 and Going Strong Paul Levy 2010
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Mr. Hamilton blazed to Pop Art fame in 1956, with his collage from American magazines, "Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?" with its muscle-man provocatively holding a Tootsie Pop and woman with large, bare breasts wearing a lampshade hat, surrounded by emblems of 1950s affluence from a vacuum cleaner to a large canned ham.
Richard Hamilton, 88 and Going Strong Paul Levy 2010
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Mr. Hamilton blazed to Pop Art fame in 1956, with his collage from American magazines, "Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?" with its muscle-man provocatively holding a Tootsie Pop and woman with large, bare breasts wearing a lampshade hat, surrounded by emblems of 1950s affluence from a vacuum cleaner to a large canned ham.
Richard Hamilton, 88 and Going Strong Paul Levy 2010
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COSTELLO: And then as Ed was sitting on the beach eating the disgusting sushi sandwich, the kid behind him starts flexing and muscle-man posing.
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On separate boards I painted a clown juggling puppies, A mermaid sitting alluringly on a rock, a ballerina in a tutu on point, a ridiculously overwrought muscle-man flexing, two boxers duking it out, an astronaut riding a golf cart on the moon, a surfer insouciantly on the end of a surf board being trailed by a shark, all in children's' sizes.
"Hold Tight" — a flashback. Ann Althouse 2009
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What's important about this no-brainer is that it's made me realize that yes, someone like Brad Pitt would make a good Thor and that no, it doesn't have to be a no-acting muscle-man in the role.
Archive 2008-05-01 Michael May 2008
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What's important about this no-brainer is that it's made me realize that yes, someone like Brad Pitt would make a good Thor and that no, it doesn't have to be a no-acting muscle-man in the role.
Awesome List: Kong sequel, Crystal Skulls documentary, Thor casting, and more Michael May 2008
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