Word: cocoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside their gaily-colored cocoon, Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons manage to show a little life before succumbing to the extravagant boredom that surrounds them. In the opening scenes Brando almost seems convincing as the brash young general who knew he would conquer Europe, while Miss Simmons is winsome without being sticky. But by the end of the picture--and this perhaps may be a very subtle intentional change--Brando is only a powerful bore, mouthing bad aphorisms in an Old School accent, while Miss Simmons' archness has become a bit wearing...
Like the theory of relativity, the flight space problem is fourth-dimensional. Under instrument conditions, each commercial airplane in flight must be protected by a cocoon of air space 30 miles long, 1,000 ft. deep and ten miles wide. Its protection must be so great because present instruments do not tell a pilot exactly where he is. But the piston pilot's problems are insignificant when measured against the problems of the jet pilot. The Civil Aeronautics Administration estimates that 35% of its traffic is military, and well over half these planes are jets. Above the major...
...have been putting a good face on their bad marriage for so long that they have almost forgotten what it really looks like. Charles is a well-placed civil servant with the aplomb of a head waiter and the moral fiber of an eel. Edna retreats into a cocoon of modern books, music and art. Into this cozy purgatory of ask-me-no-questions, Author Green drops a woman, not just any woman, but an overnight celebrity named Eva Droumek...
...seemingly final halt in 1945, when he told young King Peter, in effect, to stay the blazes out of Yugoslavia or he would chop his royal head off. But last week the marshal slipped into his blue and scarlet commander in chief's uniform, stepped into a cocoon of policemen, Scotland Yard agents and Yugoslav bodyguards, and took himself off to Buckingham Palace for lunch with King Peter's distant cousin, Her Majesty Elizabeth...
...best features, according to advance publicity, is its smooth fit with a soft clinging that enables the stocking to move with the leg, and in general to act as if it were an entirely, natural silky cocoon...