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There were no casual "walkabouts," as she calls them, and no rides in horse-drawn open coaches past cheering crowds. Indeed, the only touring she and her husband Prince Philip dared was a short ride aboard an army Land-Rover specially fitted with a cocoon of bulletproof glass. Nonetheless, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II had reason to be pleased with her two-day Silver Jubilee visit to Northern Ireland. Racked by warfare between Protestants and Catholics for the past eight years, Ulster was girded for yet another round of violence, punctuated by what the militant Provisional wing...
Tonight through Saturday at Jonathan Swift's (661-9887) you got the Estes Boys with country rock, who transmigrate into the bluesy Ellis Hall Group Sunday and Monday, who come out of the cocoon Tuesday and Wednesday as the Earl Scruggs Revue with Clean Living. Scruggs should be outstanding; I've never heard of the rest of these jokers...
...ahead of Air Force One. At rallies and other public appearances, reporters either watch Ford from roped-in areas some distance away or are kept waiting on the press bus, where they listen to a "pool" reporter's walkie-talkie account. "We're trapped in a steel cocoon," says Larry O'Rourke of the Philadelphia Bulletin. "We're fed what they want us to know...
Embalmed with Paint. The detailed, stroked, sandpapered, flecked surface of Wyeth's tempera painting - "weaving" is his own word for it -conveys an obsessive sense of scrutiny. "I really like tempera because it has a cocoon-like feeling of dry lostness-almost a lonely feeling. There's something incredibly lasting about the material, like an Egyptian mummy, a marvelous beehive or hornet's nest." Paint embalms the objects on Wyeth's cold-comfort farms; it stresses their distance from one another and from the eye. Combined with his fondness for large legible shapes and photographic cropping...
...fundamental cause of Palme's defeat, however, was the growing popular feeling that Sweden's government was becoming a Leviathan. There is almost no quarrel with the generous benefits of the cradle-to-grave welfare cocoon created by the Social Democrats. But Swedes have been increasingly concerned that the ever growing concentration of state power and the extension of bureaucracy into private life have already begun to curtail individual rights and liberties (TIME, July 19). Frequently cited as an example of the increasing arbitrariness of the bureaucracy was the harassment of Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman by Swedish...