Word: naveled
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...Sooner or later, I suppose, it was inevitable that the Harvard Business School would build itself a chapel," Campbell wrote, in a review last year. "It's already done everything else it possibly could to isolate itself from the rest of the world, wrapping itself around its own navel in a dream of privacy and wealth...
...despite the talk about statistical analysis and random populations, the book strays suspiciously from the standard scientific Protocol. Perhaps the cover, a lurid, close-up shot of a woman's navel surrounded by pink orchids, gives it away. Or the font used in the title lettering, highly reminiscent of a Harlequin romance novel. The interior of the book also betrays any serious scientific aims. Ogden's prose is casual, interrupted by sporadic fits of lyricism: "We allow the energy to reverberate in our consciousness and beyond." Now how exactly does that fit into a Venn diagram...
...pages, she addresses feminist backlash, mass media and power hierarchy and raises some interesting questions about the political implications of changing gender roles. Yet by this time, near the very end of the book, these topics on longer seem appropriate with the mood set from the beginning, a navel in high relief. Overall, the book does not fulfill its original stated mission, but reduces itself to an entertaining article on sexual hocus-pocus...
Chloe Zubieta '95, who got her navel pierced by J shortly before Christmas break, is pleased with her decision, which she says was not an attempt to be rebellious or radical...
...with pierced ears may have shocked many people not so long ago, but now it takes a nose, eyebrow, tongue, navel, nipple, or even genitalia pierce to be considered radical...