Word: cocoon
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...Hume Cronyn on the Craft of Acting In his career of more than 60 years, actor Hume Cronyn, who died last month [Milestones, June 30], portrayed a wide variety of characters, ranging from a shipwreck survivor in Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 Lifeboat to a grumpy old man in the Cocoon comedies of the 1980s. He talked to TIME about acting as a profession in an April 2, 1990, article...
...prison guard). He often appeared with his wife of 52 years, Jessica Tandy, who died in 1994. Their teamwork spanned nearly half a century--in films from The Seventh Cross in 1944 (as a couple aiding an escapee from the Nazis) to the memorable skinny-dip in the 1985 Cocoon; and on Broadway as a loving, bickering pair in The Gin Game. To her queen, he was the wry, uncommon commoner...
...Bombs may be detonating, journalists beheaded or neighbors kidnapped, but for the people of Clifton and Defence, this violence seldom penetrates their cocoon. They simply build their garden walls a few meters higher or buy another lion cub, this one in darker brown, perhaps, to match that Gucci purse. They're blithely unaware, for example, that when Qari Shafiqur Rehman, a Koranic teacher with burning eyes and a coal-black beard, walks by a McDonald's and sees these affluent Karachiites chowing down their Happy Meals, he feels "a deep rage" rising within himself. Rehman also belongs to Sipah...
...early February, Schaffer drew a picture titled “Cocoon Me.” On the right side of the page there is a strange, alien figure. Merging with this figure on the left is a butterfly in full flight. “It was a ‘foreshadowing’ picture,” Schaffer says...
...some time), was approved as expected on the final day of the FDA's six-month priority review. News of the approval immediately went up on the FDA website, the first time the agency notified the public of its decision in real time. And then the world celebrated: Cocoon was played out in every Florida retirement community, marriages moved on to deeper problems, the porn industry was democratized and talk-show hosts got a new way to tell Bill Clinton jokes. --By Joel Stein