Word: cocoon
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...walking with me, then demanded money for her time. When I refused, she shoved her hand into my jacket pocket and tussled furiously with me in an effort to grab my cash. I got away, my money intact but my jacket in tatters, and headed back to the cocoon of my hotel...
...where giant fallen oaks hang. Paradoxically, for all the open air, it's Goldsworthy's new indoor works that are the fresher. "A building, no matter how beautiful, is a dead space," says the sculptor, whose solution has been to carry the outdoors inside. One room is now a cocoon of coppiced sweet chestnut, another is clad in crackled local clay. In a third hangs an exquisite 12-m-wide filigree curtain made of 10,000 horse-chestnut stalks pinned together with thorns. High on a hill overlooking the park, all but a snaking ribbon of picture window has been...
...record. And people from the other side of the line, the people in the business of organized crime, to whom I made connections through my friends who were crime journalists and on the police force. I was just like any other bourgeois person, living in my little sheltered cocoon, and the underworld seemed far away, at least initially. Now my overwhelming sense of the world is that there is no such thing as the underworld--it is right here with...
...varying abilities over the years," says the trustee, who notes that historically black colleges had to endure a similar reconceptualization in the 1970s, after the Ivy League began poaching their most talented black students. Sooner or later, Gallaudet too will have to be just a college, not a cocoon...
...resurfaced on countless other runways this season. Fashion insiders--the people who determine which trends will make it onto department-store shelves or fashion-magazine covers and, eventually, to Zara--need a bad boy to shock them into a new look. When everyone is comfortably buttoned up in their cocoon coats, they need someone to reconfigure the silhouette with a stovepipe pant...