Word: naveled
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...intellectual pages of Encounter, in which Critic Colin Welch maintained, squarely, that the book advocates a return to some sort of dark, druidical pre-Christianity and the substitution of phallus worship for veneration of the Cross. Similarly. Miller in Cancer proposes a new world based on "the omphalos" (navel) as against an "abstract idea nailed to a cross." Despite the truly epic flow of obscene language, which becomes first dull and then comical, the book's real shock value is not moral but intellectual: what is baffling is not the sex but the snake oil it is cooked...
...while saying almost nothing. His main worry is that the New Wave may be hurt by its worst potential enemy: pretension. "The public," he says, "is happily insensitive to the verbiage of the esthetes. The essential thing is for us to remain lucid, and not take ourselves for the navel of the universe...
...table top, drinking in masculine ogles as a parched field drinks the spring rain. She lost not a beat as she explained her costume: "It's like the one Lollobrigida wore in the movie, except that Gina had a lot more pearls and a ruby in her navel. In Rio it's too hot for rubies...
...midnight on Times Square: dapper, mustachioed, faintly weary, cheeks feverishly afire with fine wine. He had the Broadway boulevardier's neon eye for his sort of news; sent in 1935 to the Metropolitan Opera to hear Lily Pons, he returned to praise not her larynx but her navel: "Who cares for a mat ter of pitch when one can gaze upon the loveliest tummy that ever graced the operatic stage...
Folk Singers: They wear velvet shirts open to the navel. But they have no navels. This is the ultimate rejection of mother...