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...That's nonsense. I throw the challenge to them: if you think it is false, go out and do what I did. Go beyond the cocoon of your apartment and taxicab and take a look. Take notes. Then let's compare notes. I'll bet your picture of New York is not very different from mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Master Of His Universe: TOM WOLFE | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...record box-office gross in 1982 -- and & sales of the candy leaped 66% in three months -- film pitches have become a bustling field. Ray-Ban sent 500 pairs of sunglasses to director Oliver Stone for his new feature, Born on the 4th of July. A scene in Cocoon: The Return was reshot so that Quaker Instant Oatmeal could be displayed more prominently. Companies are now lined up around the block trying to get their backhoes, champagne, reclining chairs and running shoes into the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Plugging Away in Hollywood | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...Democrat said the race was "tightening up all over the country." And he said that Bush, leading in the polls with 11 days to go, was hiding "in his little cocoon," with advisers afraid to let him engage in news programs' give-and-take while Dukakis has been appearing on many such programs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dukakis: Remaining Time `Eternity' | 10/29/1988 | See Source »

There, like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, it unfolded two huge solar panels and two large umbrella-like antennas. Together with its sister satellite, TDRS-1 (already in orbit over the Atlantic), the new TDRS will give NASA the ability to communicate through a single ground installation with dozens of U.S. civil and military satellites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Magic Is Back! | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

...potential advantages of such linkages are myriad. For example, Fox controls a large film library, including such hits as Cocoon and Aliens, as well as the syndication rights to such favorite TV shows as L.A. Law and M*A*S*H. If Murdoch's satellite network goes global, he could broadcast movies and reruns to markets as far apart as Memphis and Melbourne. And then, if he combined TV Guide's circulation in the U.S. with that of his TV Week in Australia, he could offer advertisers access to a much larger market for less money. In buying TV Guide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A $3 Billion Gamble | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

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