Search Details

Word: navel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...pillow with which Tex smothered his face to stop the screams...Not to be outdone. Katie took the carving fork and stabbed both bodies with it. Seven double punctures punctured here and there into the abdomen of Mr. LaBianca, till she left it embedded in his flesh near the navel to the bifur cation of the tines. Katie said she was fascinated by the fork. She reached over to it as it stood out from his stomach and she gave it a twang and it vibrated...

Author: By John ANTHONY Day, | Title: Is California Dreamin' Becoming a Reality? | 12/10/1971 | See Source »

Straus thanked Howe and their Yard adviser. Burris Young, for their graciousness by pouring a quart of beer down their pants. "We have some great pictures that are waiting to be developed." Bujalski added. "You should see Burris' navel...

Author: By R. N. G., | Title: Straus Takes Intramural Victory | 5/26/1971 | See Source »

After roasting the proudly remote metaphysics of Emerson's essay Self-Reliance, after deploring the enchanted navel gazing of Whitman's Song of Myself, Professor Anderson confronts James' The Golden Bowl. The Jacobin crime, as he draws it up, was to take European culture, abstract it, then reconstruct the abstraction as a kind of kingdom in the novelist's mind, with Mad Henry as its tyrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The I of the Beholder | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...Into the Navel. Though he is more than a foot shorter and 75 Ibs. lighter than many of his opponents, Murphy is not one to be intimidated. He had barely suited up for the Rockets in a preseason game when he found himself staring into the navel of 7-ft. 1-in. Wilt Chamberlain of the Los Angeles Lakers. "If you want to stay on the court, rookie," growled Wilt the Stilt, "stay out of the middle." The next thing Chamberlain knew, there was Murphy charging straight into the keyhole. Calvin faked one way, Wilt lunged another, and the little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Big Man | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

...attention with glittering women in spangled gowns and beaded maxi coats. Diana Ross, looking supreme in a see-through blouse and a swept-wing hairdo she called "the liberated look," was upstaged by two chesty twins who bounced down the aisle in gold-sequined gowns cut to the navel. Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby provided some comic relief with a mock sparring match in the ring. The surprise ending came later, when 100 of the spectators, responding to engraved invitations to a postfight party, went to the suburban home of a local black gangster -and were met by a team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Return of the Ringmaster | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

Previous | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | Next