Word: cocoon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experience of looking at Arbus's photography is so vital because the subject matter and style are thoroughly intertwined. They evolve into a vivid documentary recreation of the artist's personal encounters with reality. Breaking out of the stifling cocoon of a wealthy family, and reacting against the highly stylized fashion photography of her job, Diane Arbus made her foray into the freak world to establish a much needed contact with a hard core reality. She was motivated by this psychological drive and not by any perverse delight in the sensationalism of the subject matter. Overcoming ingrained social inhibitions, Arbus...
...know until late March how thoroughly Watergate had tainted his Administration, it was largely because he had deliberately kept himself so many removes from reality. Now, in spite of the lesson of Watergate, a year after the case broke Nixon remains unwilling to emerge from the cocoon of his own making. He never watches television news programs, let alone the Watergate hearings-though he could argue that he cannot afford the time. Press reports are still passed up to him in summaries prepared by the White House staff...
Becoming involved in the abortion reform issue during the past year has opened up a whole new world to me. Women are at last emerging from their cocoon and saying "why?" Maybe we do have a workable brain after all. I'm having a wonderful time using mine at last...
...dark now and the bitterly cold wind drives waves of snow across the flat, white landscape that is Barrow, Alaska. In mid-November, the sun dipped below the southwestern horizon, bringing winter darkness that will last into January. The city lies wrapped in a frigid cocoon of Arctic night. Beached boats of varying sizes dot the snow-covered ice pack that runs along the shore of the Chukchi Sea. That is the limit of Alaska's North Slope, the last land between America and the North Pole...
...last China's Chairman Mao climbs out of his cocoon and extends the hand of friendship to America [April 26]. But watch it, "Mr. America." For too long you have been a pawn and political scapegoat at the hands of the Communist bloc. While the world awaits the sordid outcome in Viet Nam, the Communists are hunting with both the hare and the hounds. So before this friendship becomes a courtship, make doubly sure that your great space secrets are buried safely where "no rust, or moth can consume, or thieves steal...