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...wouldn't it be nice if the science-fantasy genre, recently festooned with cotton-candy aliens and the air of suburban benevolence, could be refreshed by making contact with the laws of dramatic gravity? As it happens, Cocoon has many familiar elements: it could be called E.T. Meets the Over-the-Hill Gang, or On Golden Pod. Like last Christmas' Starman, it contains a love story ^ between an extraterrestrial (Tahnee Welch, Raquel's lithe and stunning daughter) and a young American (Steve Guttenberg); here sex is represented as a love-light that ricochets around the swimming pool. Like...
...some genres will. By the end, when these sunset adventurers take an outward-bound voyage toward a peaceful death, or into eternal life, this film has charted its serene course. One hopes that moviegoers will take Cocoon to their teenage hearts and make a box-office smash of the summer's sweetest, saddest, most exhilarating fable...
...maintain than they are worth. By the estimate of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the voluntary import restraints on Japanese autos that were recently lifted cost U.S. consumers $89,250 a year in higher car prices for each U.S. autoworker's job saved. Furthermore, free-traders argue, a protectionist cocoon would discourage manufacturers from reaching for greater operating efficiencies...
Wirthlin is not surprised. He has found the same "cocoon" in corporate life, where a group of talented people gather their ideas from the same information base and debate them with one another day after day. In that situation, seedlings of misconception can often grow to mighty oaks before reality intrudes...
...Guide to Colleges, demonstrating that the current edition is as had as the first. Caesar's article also revealed something about Black students' lifestyles at Harvard that the Crimson eight to spend more time writing about--namely, the growing cosmopolitanization of their lifestyles, dispersing beyond the one dimensional ethnic cocoon of Black roommates. Black dining tables, Black singing groups, etc. etc. These cosmopolitans among Harvard Black students recognize that excessive ethnocentric behavior is dysfunctional to the egalitarian goals of parity for Blacks (and other weak groups) in institutional participation, leverage, and clout in American society...