Word: navel
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...slows to a lecture-room pace, The Cobweb shows a nice ear for the spoken word and a good eye for the physical props of upper-middle-class life. Even its mixed-up characters might be fun to be with, if each did not so persistently regard his own navel as the hub of the universe...
...trouper to the set, Shirley found the job of acting in movies remarkably easy: "I didn't have to project. It was like telling someone about it confidentially. It all seemed so much more intimate, as, of course, it was, with the camera practically in your navel.'' Her fellow actors were entranced. Burt Lancaster says reverently that Shirley is "a nugget, a diamond, a pot of gold. She's Babe Ruth. She's Mickey Mantle. It's a nice note for this town that a woman like Shirley can come in and by sheer...
...therefore, to being liturgically devoured by worms. Similarly, if I had died at Athens, in the 5th century before Christ, I should have been quite pleased to burn up on the funeral pyre. Even today, at Delhi, I would happily be put to ashes, with the exception of my navel, which I would voluntarily bequeath. Forgive me for not revealing to whom...
...scene in which she felt she had just been born. She was choking from something wound tightly around her neck. She had no idea what this could be. I asked her to trace it. Her hand went up to her neck and then . . . down to the region of her navel-'It comes from my tummy.' " This patient also had an idea that she had been an unwanted child, and described two burning sensations when she believed that her mother had been trying to cause an abortion. Despite her conscious ignorance of biology, she told in detail of having...
...earth-shaking experiments of this self-declared wizard. As one of them, I have no strenuous objections if the good professor wants to lock himself in a laboratory and determine, for example, if the burp is a plosive or a fricative or how many times per second the navel vibrates during the sounding of the intermediate "a," but I do cry out in anguish when I learn that Fairbanks is now devising ways to compress speech (TIME, March 23] and . . . endorsing the general idea of faster speaking...