Word: brink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Duncan. Artists like Demeter Chiparus and Friederich Preiss, whose names are familiar today only to collectors, shaped ivory as if it were butter; the dancing figures they carved were adorned with bronze and stood or reclined on bases of marble or onyx. Many of the statuettes hover at the brink of kitsch, but their brilliant colors and glowing surfaces (clearly reproduced in the tipped-in illustrations) must be seen to be believed...
...outcome of the butterfly competitions show a Harvard squad on the brink of establishing northeastern dominance in those events. Barton and Kathleen McCloskey finished one-two in both the 50 and 100-yd. races, with Barton establishing team records in both events and breaking her own New England record...
...wars involve moral dilemmas; all wars evoke the basest evil in men; all wars drive men to the brink and force them to perpetrate horrors in the name of patriotism. All wars are hell. Vietnam was no different in this respect...
President W. Paul Tippett Jr. of American Motors Corp. used to joke that his company actually had a three-word name: "Ailing American Motors." Now Tippett and his colleagues are laughing for a different reason. AMC has pulled back from the brink yet again, chiefly by cutting its work force, consolidating its plants and concentrating on a few small cars and specialized vehicles...
Predictably, Jessica reappears, dressed to seduce the Ayatollah. On the brink of luring Potter into her motel-room sack, she sings again--a cockroach doing Donna Summer. But bitchy glamour appeals to Potter; he wants to try life with Jessica again. In a bizarre scene meant to symbolize his anxiety about leaving Marilyn, Potter hyperventilates on a Bloomingdale's couch. This sequence seems to perplex Reynolds most of all. He looks lost portraying a character who has no control of his emotions...