Word: cusps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...howl, or a boy's delight in rivers and horses. With its old-fashioned words like surcease and travail and its unembarrassed talk of caring, Guterson's story becomes a kind of affirmation of open-hearted faith. Ben sees a mountain goat running, and he "felt poised on the cusp of the world, as close to God as he might ever get, with no place higher but heaven itself...
Anne Wilkes Tucker, the Houston MFA photography curator who organized the show, calls the Paris of the 1930s a city on the cusp "between the era of the Belle Epoque and that of the Modern Age." The gas lamps of Europe were giving way to electric streetlights. That meant a new kind of nighttime, full of sexy pinpoints in the fog, 20th century floodlights over 19th century cobblestones, popguns of brightness in dark places that told dirty jokes about the naked city. As photographers elsewhere were doing--Josef Sudek in Prague, Bill Brandt in London--Brassai claimed as his territory...
...reflection less of raw, hurtful prejudice than of the sad truth that older writers, to give but one example, just aren't funny enough to write for Veronica's Closet--and how unfunny that must be. Neither explanation, I might add, is much comfort for someone on the cusp of a fifth decade...
...have to understand what life on the cusp is really like." said Chapman Professor of business Administration at the Harvard Business School Stephen A. Greyser...
...stakes are sky-high for Americans and people around the world in the contest between financial openness and the growing trend toward controls on capital. If more and more countries manipulate their capital flows, currencies and merchandise imports for competitive advantage--as they did on the cusp of the Great Depression--the threat could spread to U.S. jobs. U.S. unemployment has already edged up from 4.5% in August to 4.6% in September, a month which also saw the slowest rate of job creation in nearly three years...