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...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...
...concerned with its own problems, more and more concerned with its economic difficulties, less and less in time with the U.S. It is ever more difficult to get Western Europe to look outside its own borders." He described Western Europe's attitude as "almost a contemplation of the navel...
Harvard yesterday announced the five winners of the Trestman and Sign Fellowships, which subsidize navel abroad for graduating seniors...
Stalking the French is nothing very new. Nineteenth-century geographers gave the sport its lore, and "nombrilism"--the notion that France was the navel of the world--tried to bring to the French people the order, place and nationality that history and circumstance had not. These days, though, such certainty is far off. In distinguishing the French fact from the myth, historians not only fear generalizations--the mark of any good culture-watcher--but fail to draw any conclusions whatsoever...
...busy striking attitudes to hit honest veins of emotion. His symbols sometimes multiplied like fruit flies and almost as mindlessly. His chief danger was the unhealthy narcissism of most modern art, whose tendency has been to gaze inward and contemplate the artist's ego, as well as his navel, to the point of myopia and hallucination. Almost inevitably, he suffered the attrition of dramatic power that afflicts most playwrights after...