Word: cusp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Center was invented by Charles King of Memphis, who put the first few machines on beaches last August. This year he expects to distribute 500 of the devices along beaches and at swimming pools. "The sunscreen industry is on the cusp of a major boom," he predicts. If so, sunbathers will need bikinis with coin pockets in them...
...facing a long sentence on cocaine-sale charges, Hoffman jumped bail. Eventually he settled in a small town in upstate New York, where he took the name Barry Freed and busied himself with environmental issues. When Hoffman came out of hiding in 1980, on the cusp of the Reagan era, he seemed a bit like Rip Van Winkle, waking up in a new world that was moving not forward but backward into the somnolent 1950s...
There remains among them one cereal-box hero, one shining exception to the inevitability of decay: Nolan Ryan, the greatest strikeout pitcher in history, 16 days my senior and still blessed with the fearsome fast ball that brought him to the cusp of yet another no-hitter this spring. Ryan, I reckon, will be the last survivor in this private tontine, but that honor could also go to Tommy John, baseball's Old Man River. Lured out of retirement like a veteran CIA agent asked to perform a final mission, John, 45, has miraculously emerged as the anchor...
...unlucky -- for everyone else," says Searcy, sounding just like a rookie in his first major-league camp. For now, his number is 60. "I feel like an offensive lineman." Three years ago Boston's Roger Clemens was in Searcy's position precisely, a wide-eyed college star on the cusp of the big leagues, anticipating a few Triple-A weeks in the light early season before a fifth starter is summoned. Searcy admits, "The first time I faced Darrell Evans in an intrasquad game, I just couldn't pitch to him. But these guys aren't gods...
...seldom fancy, unafraid of ornament but almost never giddy. There is an unabashedness about construction and materials, but this lightly worn constructivism is a matter of instinct, not doctrine. Much of the new generation's architecture recalls the best buildings of the 1910s and '20s, buildings on the cusp between the neoclassical and the modern -- early, excitingly unsettled modernism, before assembly-line imitation gave austerity a bad name. The work of the younger generation, then, may be backward-looking, but its inspirations are antiquity and the early 20th century, not the 18th and 19th centuries. Quaintness does not excite...