Word: cocoon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ames, as the mother, Amanda Wingfield, bursts as gloriously as the jonquils that send her into raptures. Amanda is a withered Southern belle, ever unquiet about her lost life on the plantation, regaling the tressed-up, padded-bosom, stuck-smile days of her girlhood. Amanda lives in a cocoon of memories, deceiving herself about plans for the future, acting out an existence that is worse than old-fashioned--it is dead. She sparkles beautifully, like a jewelled kinetoscope, cascading through the same wistful images at the drop of a penny-word. Amanda mothers her children, Tom and Laura, with...
...Ross's canon as solid began to change several years ago, when the psychiatrist raised eyebrows by concluding that death is not so final, after all. "When people die," Kübler-Ross declared, "they very simply shed their body, much as a butterfly comes out of its cocoon." Her growing conviction that the living could communicate with the dead led her to dabble in spiritualism at her retreat north of San Diego. Now Kübler-Ross, who refers to herself as an "immortal visionary and modern cartographer of the River Styx," has apparently lost any remaining credibility...
...years had been "among the most difficult in the U.S.-Japanese relationship since the end of World War II." In Washington, even Congress's Joint Economic Committee stopped growling. Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, committee chairman, conceded that Japan, under U.S. pressure, had "begun to peel away" the cocoon of import regulations it had spun to protect its domestic industry from foreign competition...
Another approach would be to find a substance that breaks down the cocoon from the outside, allowing the immune cells to get at the tumor. A third tactic that Dvorak and his colleagues are planning to explore is the production of antibodies against the tumor's own chemicals...
Last week a husband-wife team at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital and their colleagues offered a possible explanation that may also suggest new cancer therapies. In their view, some malignant cells escape detection by getting the body to form a womblike cocoon around the tumor...