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Question: What do Caesar and Madonna have in common? Answer: immortality. No, Dewitt is not talking about a certain greasy salad dressing or the lint-free bellybutton. Augustus and Madonna have given us the most prized possession of historians and glibmeisters: the buzzword, what historians who like to use foreign languages call (and italicize) the zeitgeist. Augustus gave us the Augustan age; Madonna has given us the Age of Desperation...
...summer at Cornell was full of such bizarre characters. There was the Rodent--one of the most vile and obnoxious creatures ever to crawl the streets of Ithaca. He wore the same football jersey torn at the letters to every class enabling him to examine his bellybutton at leisure. There was Greek the gambler: Captain kirk the pinball wizard: and his roommate Studly the womanizer. There was the Mad Typist who lived down the hall from my dingy basement cell never slept and ingested a dozen No-Doz daily and Howard Machine the visiting professor from Britain who never really...
...baby on the Ivory Snow box, and Porn Star Marilyn Chambers is still moving. With her cinematic X-ertions (Behind the Green Door, Resurrection of Eve) playing in movie houses round the country, Chambers, 23, has now begun polishing her moves for a New York cabaret show. Titled "Le Bellybutton" and scheduled for opening this week in New York's Hotel Diplomat, the song-and-dance blackout revue will exhibit Marilyn and a cast of eleven in a multitude of skins. "Of course films are very lucrative," purrs Marilyn, "but this is more lucrative in the way of experience...
...Holocaust helped to destroy. And this is where he's at his very best, when he's describing his first forage outside his home town in the Old Country ("A Tutor in the Village"); or telling about the nicknames given to people in Polish villages, names like Haim Bellybutton, Yekel Cake, Sarah Gossip, Gittel Duck and--for a sinister Calvinist-type--Benjamin Fatalist ("The Fatalist"); or describing holiday revels ("Passions...
...like apples. My balloon has a gathered place. Apples are round and red sometimes. They start little on trees and grow up inside their skins like people. Ellen used to be an apple baby She's not red yet and on her big round tummy She has a bellybutton...