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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Everybody into the Pool Cocoon | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...late Wyndham Lewis, a novelist and critic whose work, & said T.S. Eliot, combined "the thought of the modern and the energy of the cave man." Lewis also dabbled in art. To Poet Edith Sitwell, his pictures seemed "to have been painted by a mailed fist in a cotton glove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Publishing Rises in the West | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

They won't sell you cotton candy or popcorn, but if you want guide books or maps of Cambridge, you can pick them up at a new pink and blue Disneyland-style booth in the center of Harvard Square...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: Disneyland Booth Comes to the Square | 6/23/1985 | See Source »

...Paris. He mercilessly cut any song that did not fit its situation. Conversely, he was a great hoarder and tinkerer. Alter just a few bars of Till the Clouds Roll By and presto! it becomes Look for the Silver Lining. Invert the melody, depress the tempo and voila! the Cotton Blossom theme from Show Boat is alchemized into Ol' Man River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can't Help Lovin' Those Tunes | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...Updated looks and styles in sweaters and shirts, including a 100 percent cotton sweater, are geared more toward women and athletic guys," says Clifford Brown, retailer for the Coop's Harvard insignia clothing department...

Author: By John N. Rosenthai, | Title: Cashing in on Commencement | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

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