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...Persia by Author James Morier, Hajji Baba is all too obviously based on nothing but some old Bagdad sets that Producer Walter Wanger found around Hollywood. From there out it's silks of Ind. accents of Chi. on with the swarth and out with the nautch. A heavy navel bombardment in rich color is followed by dialogue ("Allah be praised!") and swarms of half-naked warrior women who kill their male captives with too much kindness. Enter Hajji the Barber himself (John Derek), who goes in for close shaves and comes out with a distant princess (Elaine Stewart...
...enough to take a Saturday night seat in a Latin combo. He can box and fence and do an interpretive dance with all but the pros, and he has mastered enough yoga to demonstrate an exercise in which the abdominal muscles are rotated in a flowing movement around the navel...
...Research and Development Command at Wright Air Force Base have developed a cooling suit to be worn under everything but the underwear. This consists of two layers of rubberized nylon, quilted together, with two sets of air holes. A hose from a valve near the pilot's navel hooks the suit into the plane's air-conditioning system, and cooled air pours through small holes around his body. Warmed and spent, it escapes through larger holes and a set of dump valves...
...they bore a remarkable resemblance to the artist-bright-eyed, point-nosed, with an expression of gaiety rampant. The show included chummy centaurs bearing candles, chubby wood nymphs lurking in the shrubbery, birds that never were, sinuous but homey maidens, and friendly eggheads sprouting flowers. One Stolen Nymph, her navel flower-decked, sat sidesaddle aboard a centaur, who was chiefly interested in some birds. She looked piqued...
...ancient Greeks knew what they wanted in the shape of a woman, and showed it by their statues. The marble goddesses of Greece almost invariably measured the same across the bosom as between breast and navel. Later came the Dark Ages, when men cried for breasts higher and smaller. Germany's Lucas Cranach (1472-1553) painted nudes that conformed strictly to the taste of his time...