Word: sculpts
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Practicing Appalachian craft traditions that are centuries old, some students at Berea College in Berea, Ky., have learned to weave, sculpt and carve an assortment of household items that would make even Martha Stewart jealous. The Berea College Student Crafts catalog features hundreds of handmade products. Proceeds from every couch throw ($90), broom ($9 to $48) and candelabrum ($75) go toward the education of the college's 1,500 students, all of whom work in lieu of tuition. "All you have to do is rub your hands across one of our couch throws, and you'll know there's quality...
Emmet Ray (Sean Penn) is the premier American jazz guitarist. His fingers sculpt gorgeous sounds from the six strings; I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles was never so poignant or supple as in his hands. But Emmet is also a pimp, petty thief, paranoid...if there's a bad word that starts with p, he's likely to be it. Driven by ego, dogged by insecurity, he rationalizes his outrages as the spillage of an overflowing talent...
Most of the lasers currently used for LASIK can sculpt an area no wider than 6.5 mm, or a quarter of an inch. So, as you might expect, patients whose pupils grow wider than the average of about 6 mm in the dark often have the biggest problems. An equally critical factor, however, is the amount of correction you need, measured in negative (-) diopters for nearsightedness and positive (+) diopters for farsightedness. The greater your correction, the more abrupt the transition zone between the sculpted and unsculpted portion of the cornea, and the greater the risk of troublesome glare and halos...
...patron saint of the cult of the body: the almost mystical belief that we have the power to overcome adversity if only we submit to the right combinations of exercise, diet, meditation and weight training; that by force of will, we can sculpt ourselves into demigods. The century began with a crazy burst of that philosophy. In 1900 the Boxer rebels of China who attacked the Western embassies in Beijing thought that martial-arts training made them immune to bullets. It didn't. But a related fanaticism--on this side of sanity--exists today: the belief that the body...
Perhaps excessive clothing, or something like that. I felt that if they wanted to put on a hit, that they should sculpt it. Maybe I'll change that to allow them to do a hair color spray...