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...Mexico City, where he lives. In the movie Shakira describes the author as "one of those people who will never die, for sure not in my heart." The two met in 1999 when Garcia Marquez interviewed Shakira for a magazine, a planned one-hour chat that lasted five. Comparing navel rings perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forget 100 Years of Solitude--Let's Hang Out | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...provocative battle-of-the-sexes motif from Survivor: Amazon, even if the casting questions Burnett and Trump's claim that the contestants were chosen (from 215,000 applicants) mainly for brains. The women range from hottest-woman-in-your-office hot to supermodel hot (and flash more leg and navel than in most staff meetings not held at Hooters), whereas most of the men would only be among the better-looking guys on Average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Art Of The Real | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...Shakespeare to the Buddha, from Socrates to Gandhi, imploring us to yield to the age-old Delphic command, “know thyself,” the time is ripe for students to cease rattling off the negatives of a creative writing concentration’s “navel-gazing” and recognize the veritas it offers...

Author: By Thomas E. Gaffney, | Title: Inward Focus Needed for True Education | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

...Shakespeare to the Buddha, from Socrates to Gandhi, imploring us to yield to the age-old Delphic command, “know thyself,” the time is ripe for students to cease rattling off the negatives of a creative writing concentration’s “navel-gazing” and recognize the veritas it offers...

Author: By Thomas E. Gaffney, | Title: Inward Focus Needed for True Education | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

...inward focus is also an integral part of what we are supposed to do in college: ground our identities firmly, so that we can recognize where we end, where the world begins, and how we and the world are connected. Perhaps my creative writing can be an exercise in navel-gazing—but the creative process, like our studies, can be self-orientation as well as self-study: not only a means of expression, but also a way of fitting ourselves into a larger system. If these two things are kept balanced as I write, then I feel much...

Author: By Catherine L. Tung, | Title: The Trouble Of Self-Study | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

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