Word: cocoons
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...Levitt men were a typical family. They loved each other. They were also a cocoon of misfits who drove each other crazy. Father Abe was a onetime Brooklyn lawyer and would-be philosopher. Bill recalled that Abe liked to give the impression that he knew the distance in light-years to every star. Abe eventually became Levittown's unofficial landscape theorist. He could face a reporter with a fistful of dahlias and tell him, with a straight face: "Every man has a right to flowers!" Brother Alfred designed the houses and grumbled about how credit always went to Bill...
...very, very lucky, it happens. A miracle of nature. After waiting patiently for what seems years, we notice a slow emergence. The cocoon breaks and out of the depths of cynical garage-rock and tortured, pre-millenial angst there climbs a thing of radiant beauty--a wonder of nature so luminous and pure that we can do nothing but raise our tear-filled eyes to the heavens, sigh in complete abandon and carefully begin to shake some serious booty...
...state with a 13% Hispanic population, Bush insists that the conversion came out of his family crisis. "I vowed to myself after the election that I would convert. It turned out to be a pretty therapeutic thing... Had I won, I would have been up in a cocoon in Tallahassee and protected... I'm convinced that I'm better off for not having...
...other big, uh, news this week is of course the promise of Viagra. A CP warning: This may tempt you into watching "Cocoon" once again. Don?t. It really is that bad. Happy viewing...
...million; Feeney abhors the list, but he let the fiction persist rather than betray his charity. Early in the year, a lawsuit over the sale by his foundation of its stake in DFS threatened to expose the scope of Feeney's giving. So he broke out of his cocoon, telling the New York Times, "Money has an attraction for some people, but nobody can wear two pairs of shoes at one time...