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...FILM COCOON, THREE OLD codgers played by Don Ameche, Hume Cronyn and Wilford Brimley begin taking furtive dips in a secluded swimming pool next door to their Florida retirement home. The pool, being secretly used by space aliens to rejuvenate companions left behind on a previous expedition, turns out to be a veritable fountain of youth. The senior citizens suddenly come alive: their arthritis disappears; their cancers dissolve; they disco into the night and regain their sexual prowess. Asked a film reviewer: "Wouldn't it be wonderful if decay were so easily washed away...
...they hear the familiar beep of electronic mail arriving from the Internet, although Quittner tried several times to log on. It wasn't until their tenant complained about a strange message on their answering machine that the couple investigated and discovered all was not well in their electronic cocoon...
...could be that the cocoon of family that the Presleys drew around themselves was impermeable. "Though we had friends and relatives, including my parents," Presley's father Vernon recalled, "the three of us formed our own private world." Guralnick paints this world with perspective, respect and great decency; it is one of the book's triumphs. "Poor we were," the elder Presley says, "but trash we weren't. We never had any prejudice." Presley may have been easygoing, but when the country performer Ira Louvin called him "a white nigger," Presley stood...
...partly by choice. "I'm an extremely reclusive person," says Griffith, 40, in a high, clear, Texas-twanged schoolgirl voice. "As far as career goes, I've probably shot myself in the foot more than anyone I know, because I've protected my privacy and my life and the cocoon that I have to weave myself into in order to be the writer that...
...older workers, brought up in the cocoon of the giant corporation -- company-paid health care and pensions, company softball and bowling teams -- these visions may seem less empowering than terrifying. They are adventuresome, perhaps, but lonely and frighteningly insecure. And of course the visions may never come about, at least not fully; they are guesswork. There is only one safe prediction about the job market of the future: it will not bear much resemblance to the recent past. Asked when the job market might get back to normal, Greenberg of the A.M.A. states, "If your model for normal...