Word: misshapen
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...intriguing about this imitative gesture is the sacrificial element involved in the picture of Beckett, suffering terribly from huge corns and terrible calluses, walking only with great pain. He must have pulled off his shoes in much the same way as his character, Estragon, pulls off his horrible misshapen boots in the first act of Waiting for Godot with a sigh of infinite relief...
...often the cast plays for laughs instead. Daniel Terris as De Flores--the misshapen servant to the heroine, and villain of the play--mars what might have been a superb overall performance by childishly pouting in his early scenes. De Flores lusts after his mistress Beatrice (Anne Montgomery) and offers to kill the husband her father intends for her. She accepts and her complicity in this crime draws her into a whirlpool of moral corruption...
Little Monsters. For the child who does not get enough blood and ghoul from TV or movies, new Monster Make-Up and Horror Make-Up kits provide the wherewithal for 56 basic variations of Lon Chaney, including leprous or misshapen cheekbones, deformed foreheads, grotesque scars, dagger wounds, drooping, bulging eyeballs, bullet holes-plus a bottle of nontoxic gore. The kits, which sell for less than $20 each, were designed by Veteran Makeup Artist Dick Smith, who turned Linda Blair's head in The Exorcist and aged Marlon Brando in The Godfather. They come with a packet of powdered gelatin...
...vast majority of human beings have two sex chromosomes: women have two of the X type, which guarantees their femaleness; men have one X (from mother) and a Y (from father). The Y, a tiny, misshapen bit of genetic material, overpowers the X and determines maleness-but little else, although it is widely believed that masculinity includes aggressive tendencies. Nature sometimes slips the conceptus an extra Y to produce an XYY male, almost certain to be well above average height. Because a disproportionately high number of XYYs were found in penal institutions, studies beginning in the 1960s suggested that they...
Many of White's visions concerned diet. She saw her followers making "a god of their bellies" and over the years issued various dietary regulations stressing vegetarianism and forbidding alcohol and tobacco. Another of her visions showed that masturbation could lead to "imbecility, dwarfed forms, crippled limbs, misshapen heads and deformity of every description." During one trance, "companies of females" appeared to her; those wearing the floor-length dresses of the 1860s looked "feeble and languid," while those in shorter skirts had "cheerful countenances." For ten years she struggled to get her Adventist sisters to wear their skirts nine...