Word: navel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Catherine said that she won't eat because she can cook. I looked at my plate of food and understood. That lady had a few long gray whiskers on her chin, a side reaction of the ubiquitous tranquilizer Thoridine. Her dress wasn't buttoned much above the navel, and her right breast was half hanging out. She stared at her food and then put a fork in her coffee...
...giant faces in a slightly different direction. Then an old islander informed him that "each modi looks at a part of the world over which he has power and for which he is answerable." The old name of the island, he reminded Maziere, was Te Pito Te Henua-The Navel of the World...
...ever-more-erotic and exciting Straight Backwards Time (S.T.B.), Billy the Surf Bum's mother was gazing at her navel (belly-button to you). she was entranced. in her navel were crawling four miniature St. Bernard puppies, each with a cask around its neck containing the hole whorl. "my, mmmmmmmmmy," Billy the Surf Bum's mother was saying. "i do hope my seeking son can bark better than the first. hardly since the beginning of time has man ever discovered. . . . why why why x y y? people should be more aggressive in their searches for trooth. it's more manly...
...story. The film's observations of the nouveau riche Patimkins are subtle enough-until a parody of a Jewish wedding that looks as if Beelzebub had personally catered the affair. Too many of the camera's juxtapositions are vulgar or obvious or both: the hollow of a navel introduces a swimming pool, an embracing couple becomes a side of roast beef, the jock is shown carefully laundering his athletic supporter...
SALLY OF THE Tassle used to hang around Scollay Square. Harvard professors still half-consciously desire her attractively active navel. But Scollary Square is now Government Center Plaza. It has a brand new blue and green MBTA, the John F. Kennedy building, and the new City Hall...