Delights of the naked eye
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Updated 3:05 am, Sunday, February 3, 2013
Forget about boobs, bellies, complexions. Let us instead celebrate no-fault body parts:
-- The wrist: An efficient connector of the arm and the hand, and a place in plain view to wear decorative bracelets. I have never seen a sagging wrist.
-- Instep: When a ballerina laces on her toe shoes, the high instep is a point of real beauty. But even the nondancer, the plodder, the plunker and the stomper is at peace with her instep. I have never seen a magazine story - even in Self - about 10 ways to rejuvenate your instep.
-- The upper ridge of the ear: Although the swinging lobe is less indicative of a love for lilting jazz than it is of a lifetime of wearing heavy earrings, its opposite, the upper ridge of the ear, remains waxy and dewy-looking, eternally youthful.
-- The tongue: Aside from the Rolling Stones logo, this versatile body part (it helps in talk, it helps in taste, it helps in kissing) has been little hailed in the painter's pageant of beautiful body parts (see above). This tireless worker is a whiz at multitasking, and also some people like it sliced thin in deli sandwiches.
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-- The uvula: Irresistibly cute, it waggles around in the roof of one's mouth like the tail on a friendly Labrador retriever, all the while pointing to the tongue.
-- The underarm: The biceps melt away, the triceps turn to Jell-O; tank tops become impossible. Hidden away under the long sleeves, however, the underarm is hanging in there, unchanged, but sadly, un-lauded.
-- The back: It may be lumpy, it may be pimply, it may be saggy, it may be mottled. Who cares? It's in the back and we can't see it.
-- Which brings to mind a moment of gratitude that the eyes - never mind styes, bags, droopy lids or crows' feet - are in the front of the head, making it impossible for them to see the rear end.
-- The wisdom teeth: Tossed aside in the modern age on the junk pile that was once reserved for tonsils, these oft-yanked choppers ought to have by now earned a place in the Dentists' Moneymakers Hall of Fame.
-- Navel: The only body part to have a citrus fruit named after it, and at the same time serve as a living symbol of tolerance. In a world divided by innies and outies, I do believe they all get along.