Word: cocoon
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...couture runways were littered with hints of Balenciaga's innovative cuts and use of volume. At Dior, the exaggerated shape of a horsehair skirt echoed his penchant for stiff fabrics. At Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld kicked in a fuchsia cocoon coat--an iconic Balenciaga look. Even couture newcomer Giorgio Armani, who began showing in Paris only three seasons ago, referenced the designer with a stunningly simple A-line evening dress...
...Poll by 3-1 Margin, Undergraduates Say They Don’t Want Summers To Resign,” news, Feb. 21). Forcing Dr. Summers out is a powerful illustration of how diversity of thought is not tolerated on the left and especially not within the cocoon that engulfs the Harvard Faculty. Even though I share some of the shame that taints Harvard today, I do grant that at least the Faculty has delivered (albeit unintentionally) one vivid history lesson to Dr. Summers—he now has first-hand knowledge of how Galileo must have felt...
When he emerged from his spiritual cocoon, Matisyahu was bursting with cross-genre musical ideas. He formed a band and fused his love of music with his love...
...frustration with the President in public? Will someone, somewhere hold up a sign that implies that Yanks prefer Diana to Camilla? Like all caricatures, the view of Charles as not quite connected with the world holds some truth. Yet it is also fair to say that within the cocoon of royalty, and despite the disorder that dominated his personal life during his marriage to Diana, he has created a role for himself of such scope that if he were a commoner, you would call it a remarkable and successful career. Over time he has figured...
Sever Hall is enveloped by a cocoon of scaffolding and mesh while it undergoes external restoration and internal conversion...