Word: cocoon
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...making strong, sharp arguments against the President's most fateful decisions: the blind rush into an elective war, the economic and legislative tilt toward the wealthy. If recent performances are any guide, the President hasn't developed an adequate response yet. He will have to break free from his cocoon and reacquaint himself with the public, if he hopes to find...
Perhaps her biggest fan of all, however, is Levin himself. “It was immediately obvious that she is a young woman of enormous talent and great intelligence and street smart and enormous flair. Sometime you have to try to get people out of their cocoon, but Berenika is a born communicator...
...movie depicts characters whose worlds are smaller, whose paths are clearly, almost painfully defined, and recalls those small, clearly defined years from my own life which could nearly be contained within a convenience shop/video rental store. As the movie’s gleeful profanity and grungy soundtrack recalled the cocoon of my best friend’s basement (which, incidentally, was so small that we could barely stretch our legs on her futon without kicking her television), my college life suddenly seemed to be almost a search for a new set of boundaries to replace the ones that had once...
...spacecraft were launched, it was clear their designers had done an extraordinary job. The rovers will reach the Martian surface much the way Pathfinder did, descending with the aid of rocket engines and parachutes and bouncing to a landing swaddled in air bags. After shaking off its inflatable cocoon, each 384-lb. vehicle will unfold itself into its full standing physique, measuring 5.2 ft. long, 7.5 ft. wide and 4.9 ft. tall...
...Earlier this summer, Shido performed a sold-out, monthlong Kabuki run at the Bunkamura Theatre Cocoon in the heart of Tokyo's youthful Shibuya district. The series, conceived and headlined by older-generation star Kankuro Nakamura, offered audiences a flashier, faster version of the arcane art form?including a grand finale in which a police car bursts onstage through the back door. "I want people who have never seen Kabuki before to come to Cocoon," Shido says. "My hope is that they'll go because of me, and leave with a real interest in Kabuki." He'd no doubt...