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What makes some children finally snap? "They don't pay as you go with regard to aggression," observes Detroit psychiatrist Emanuel Tanay. "You might think they're passive, but they're also explosive." Many parricides occur when the child is on the cusp of independence, about to break away from a parent's domination. Sometimes the killing is triggered by a desire to protect the other parent or siblings...
...route to Albuquerque, New Mexico: Clinton again wandered back to chat with a knot of reporters. This time the topic was primarily mango-chutney ice cream, a San Antonio specialty Clinton loves. Somehow this candidate on the cusp of victory conjured up the macabre memory that his first taste of mango-chutney had come the night before he drove former House majority leader Hale Boggs, campaigning in Texas for McGovern, to the airport for what was to be a fatal airline trip to Alaska...
...sturdy pair of legs, and the West was built largely on wood. Europe was a collection of untamed forests, countless mile upon mile of trees and brush and brier, dark and inhospitable. Medieval chroniclers used the word desert to describe their arboreal world, a place on the cusp of civilization where werewolves and bogeymen still lunged out of the shadows and bandits and marauders maintained their lairs...
...convulsive change of management. Since then it has been the subject of intense debate and gossip. Could the new Pantheon survive under current business conditions? What kind of writers would it attract? If this anthology of Mitchell's best work is any indication, the publishers are on the cusp of a renaissance. Crowded with the author's favorite subjects ("visionaries, obsessives, imposters, fanatics, lost souls, the-end-is-near street preachers, old Gypsy kings and old Gypsy queens, and out-and-out freak-show freaks"), Up in the Old Hotel is the shortest 718-page volume of the year...
...Hampshire last February, when the airwaves were filled with talk of Gennifer Flowers and draft records, Clinton proved that he was that rare Timex-watch candidate, who could "take a licking but keep on ticking." Now he has sailed through the primaries, averted new scandals and stands on the cusp of the Democratic nomination. Rather than savoring that triumph, Clinton must now confront the highest hurdle of all: he must reach into himself and find a new way to convince the voters that he has the vision, the verve and the vitality to lead a troubled nation...