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...older boys) she appears to be a sex sym: bol, impure and simple as her long, sinuous body-high fashion, but with some meat on her smoothly articulated bones -slithers into closeup, her navel twinkling as invitingly as her sequins. Then, however, a shy smile splits her deadpan. As she speaks a few words of earnest greeting in her curiously flat voice, Pop and the other males see they can afford to relax. Underneath all that finery and a ceramic of makeup there is a rather awkward, imperfectly beautiful girl. She appears no more daunting than the nice...
Only Bea's presence, a circle like the mouth of a while bell of which her overheard voice was the chiming clapper, promised repose. Hanema remembered her as a calm pool in which he could kneel to the depth of his navel...
...flying the U.S. flag can haul cargo be tween U.S. ports. That is a high-priced concession to maritime unions and American shipbuilders that hikes shipping costs. Most of the economists also favored abolition of numerous Agriculture Department "marketing orders." These, in the past, have sustained high prices on navel oranges and Florida tomatoes, as well as other foodstuffs, by limiting sales or blocking imports...
...Navel as Centrist...
...Trouble with Being in the Middle" [July 1] is poignantly illustrated by the navel, that useless and innocuous configuration that serves neither physiology nor aesthetics. It merely remains there, indolently comfortable, insouciantly secure and abominably smug. Extremities do have their place in the world, and that is precisely where the middle...