Word: cusp
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...think we're on the cusp of a revolution in how we eat? My gut tells me we're in the best place we've been in my lifetime. For the first time, the pendulum has been moving the other way. I have watched the world of restaurants and cooking and chefs for 30 years now. And at the beginning, I was a decent journalist and I could write, but basically [editors ] wanted me to interview chefs and write about food as art and all this other crap. I've seen the move to simplicity. I'll be disappointed...
...least a share of Peck's Oscar both for casting him and for eliciting the actor's best work. But the director's heart, here as in so many of his films, was with the Finch children. If Mulligan had an abiding interest, it was troubled youngsters on the cusp of discovering themselves by confronting the world around them. This theme occupied him from his first feature film to his last. The 1957 Fear Strikes Out gave Anthony Perkins his first lead role as Boston Red Sox star Jim Piersall, reduced to bipolar rage by a domineering parent (sort...
...electoral politics, when his predecessor has set the lowest bar since James Buchanan, when a supposedly conservative Administration just started nationalizing the banking system, when the public is desperate for change. What is it about tonight's results that suggests Obama should be afraid of progressive action on the cusp of a depression...
...whole novel, there is the delicate tension that comes from knowing that the main event is yet to come, a state of pleasant anxiety in knowing that, whatever harrowing adventures might befall the characters, they are mere preparation for what is to occur later.This novel opens on the cusp of the Opium Wars, with the chaos of the Far East’s opium trade visible just over the precipice. Deeti, an Indian peasant whose husband is an addict, spends her days tending the poppy fields that the sahibs (rulers of the province) forced her and those like...
...lead dwindled as the minutes wound down in the fourth quarter. But it was Lehigh who watched as the Crimson’s defense got the big play it needed to seal its third straight win. As the Mountain Hawks charged inside the Harvard 20 and seemed on the cusp of taking the lead with just over a minute to play, senior defensive end Peter Ajayi forced Lehigh quarterback J.B. Clark to fumble, and the loose ball popped into the arms of classmate Glenn Dorris to preserve a 27-24 Crimson victory Saturday afternoon at Harvard Stadium...