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...appeal has been to a very specific constituency--middle class women on the cusp of professional careers. It's no coincidence that Quindlen's popularity rose at just about the time that professional women in running shoes descended upon the land like comfortably-shod locusts...
They need not have worried. On the cusp of 40, Costello shakes off the cobwebs with Brutal Youth, a collection of 15 sinewy songs that marks his , reunion with the Attractions, the crack band that backed him on some of his best work of the '70s and '80s. Boisterous and piercing, Brutal Youth moves nimbly from caustic rock to hushed ballads, at times recapturing the brilliance of Costello's best days. "The twitching impulse is to speak your mind," he sneers on All the Rage. "I'll lend you my microscope, and maybe you'll find...
Network news another Ted Koppel, receiving an award for lifetime achievement in journalism at the Kennedy School of Government, said last night that technology has put television news "on the cusp of massive change...
...stooped to watch coltish first-years frolicking in the Yard during last weekend's reprieve from winter. Perched on the cusp of real accomplishment, they were insolently unconscious of their power. This twentysomething resolved to savor this place and time. It won't be coming my way again...
However, some students disagreed with the notion that professors of the time were on the cusp of social change...