Word: navel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dance also raised temperatures at the Holland Music Festival, where Negro Dancer Katherine Dunham & company last week presented her torrid Caribbean Rhapsody. The Dutch had never seen anything quite like her. Dancer Dunham did not wear a pearl in her navel (as she did in Tropical Revue), but some of the audience were nevertheless overcome by all the pelvic commotion, hesitated in bewilderment before applauding. Most of the audience, however, got the idea: they were seeing precise dancing and brilliant choreography. The Dutch critics were two-minded about her. Wrote one: "Mostly it is sheer vitality, but sometimes sheer corn...
...weather through the ages-of how people dressed to meet it and how they were helped and hindered in doing so by the architecture of their homes and the demands of current fashion (Queen Elizabeth's habit of ripping her stylish, padded blouse open right down to the navel on warm days greatly shocked the French ambassador). All the elements that have influenced human clothing are touched: war, poverty, industrialization, poetry, hero worship, religion, royal mistresses...
Over there, for instance, was the usually gentle Pablo Picasso, who got so steamed up at a formal dinner that he removed coat and shirt, or, as a lady intellectual said: "My dear, he stripped to his navel." And over there was Mrs. Julian Huxley, wife of UNESCO's director-general, in conversation with Jerzy Borejsza, an organizer of the congress. Intellectual Borejsza was as steamed up as Painter Picasso. Said he to Mrs. Huxley: "If my wife behaved at UNESCO as you have here, I would spank her bottom...
...Psychiatric Imperialism." Japanese life, Dr. Mead said, was built on group guilt feeling. "The child is taught that its entire family can be disgraced by a single act on its part. Such [acts] were punished severely, for example by kindling a fire on the navel...
...however, Rome's modistes, having no urge toward martyrdom, prudently removed all bare midriff garments from their display windows. "I have two-piece suits for anybody who asks for them," said matronly Teresa Spizzichino. "They're made so as to hold any bosom tightly and cover both navel and-er-lower hind parts." Just the same, she admitted, the one-piece variety might be better. "Eventually the ladies will take to them, not because they like them better, but simply because no woman wants to run unnecessary risks. Getting into trouble with the police may have very unpleasant...