Word: navel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make way for Bob Greene, the Imperfect 2½. Greene, 32, a Chicago Tribune columnist, has joined the ranks of four-color sex symbols with his own 16-in. by 22-in. poster. The work depicts him posing in a motel room door, his shirt slashed to the navel. Greene's pinup career began when he set out to do a column on the superstar poster business and called Marketcom/Crosswinds Corp., a Fenton, Mo., firm specializing in posters of big-name athletes. "One thing led to another, and we decided he could be a sex symbol," says Ron Michel...
Examining them with a hand compass earlier this year, Dartmouth Geographer Vincent H. Malmstrom found that its needle was sharply attracted whenever he held it to the navel of some of the statues, the right temple of others. Reason: these parts of their anatomy were themselves magnets. More astonishing, the rotund figures are about 4,000 years old, 2,000 years older than the first evidence of Chinese experiments with magnetism...
...across great expanses of ocean. (He also suggests that the magnetic turtle may hint of Olmec contacts with the Chinese, since they also made their early compasses in the shape of turtles.) As for the Fat Boys, Malmstrom says, their magnetism may represent the life force, with the navel symbolizing birth, and the temple consciousness or knowledge...
...despondent husband wonders why his wife fails to respond to him during lovemaking. To his genuine astonishment, he learns from a physician that he was not accomplishing much of anything by stimulating his wife's navel. The naive husband may sound like a caricature concocted at a sex therapists' meeting, but for Mikhail Stern, a dissident Soviet physician now living in France, the story is poignantly symptomatic of the woeful sexual lives of most Soviet citizens...
...four men and two women took only four hours to ease the scarred O'Hare's pain. For this suffering, plus loss of income and earning power, plus medical expenses, it awarded her precisely $854,219.61, a stunning amount that headline writers could not resist calling variously NAVEL VICTORY, BATTLE OF MIDWAY, and BELLY LAUGH. Hours later, patient and doctor ran into each other at Manhattan's "21" Club; she was there to celebrate, he to ponder an appeal and "the absurdity...