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IN 1975, ROBERTA NEIMAN, A STILL PHOTOGRAPHER on the movie set of Stay Hungry, spent an afternoon taking photos of an Austrian bodybuilder named Arnold Schwarzenegger. Neiman described her subject, then a five-time winner of the Mr. Olympia title, who was featured in the film, as being shaped almost like a reverse pyramid. Neiman found this human colossus as charming as he was massive even as she strained to understand his fragmented English. At one point, as she cajoled him into striking a few more poses, he looked up and flashed a confident grin. "You know, you ought to be very nice to me," he said, wagging his finger. "Someday I'm going to be president of the United ...

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