Word: navel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Waltham, Mass., at Yolanda's, Proprietor Yolanda Cellucci is shooting for a different market. Along with more traditional items, Yolanda offers a slinky jersey number with a peekaboo keyhole shape cut from below breast to just below the navel. For her own daughter's wedding last January, Yolanda ran up a gown of white leather, python skin, fox, mink, Swakara and gold cloth with a complementing jacket of Russian golden sable. Such an outfit might seem a little . . . well, declamatory, but it was certainly of a piece with the proceedings, whose wintry "theme" was Doctor Zhivago. The bride and bridegroom...
...enough for Rourke to sound like a Rambo who forgot to put the airpump to his navel; he has to dress up in his Vietnam fatigues, too. Our token Italian don in Dragon doesn't just get announced as the Italian, he has to put a voice box to his punctured throat to rasp out his tough words. What's this supposed to mean? Marlon Brando, eat your heart...
Perhaps the most financially savvy of the independents is Windham Hill, a Palo Alto, Calif., company started nine years ago by Carpenter-Guitarist William Ackerman, then 26. He borrowed $5 from each of 60 friends to record an album of his own called In Search of the Turtle's Navel. From the outset, Ackerman groomed his disks for the baby boom generation, an audience that he felt was growing tired of rock. He recorded melodic albums like Pianist George Winston's Autumn, which cost just $1,720 to produce but has sold more than 500,000 copies. Some critics regard...
Commentators like James J. Kilpatrick toss out the phrase to register contempt for a federal complex preoccupied with its own navel. William Safire says the phrase connotes something "of interest to tea-leaf readers of Washington goings-on but (is) strictly a yawner to the World Out There." Author Ben Wattenberg defines "inside the Beltway" as the "exponential expansion of what used to be the Georgetown cocktail party--elitism that has lost touch...
...says Sheehan. More important, Fixx told his family that he felt a tightness in his throat while running. This, says Winslow, was probably angina, a telltale sign of coronary trouble. Though commonly described as a gripping pain in the chest, angina can occur anywhere from the nose to the navel. Usually it occurs in the same place and disappears when physical activity stops. "Tightness" and "heaviness," says Winslow, "are two of the most common descriptions of angina...