Word: cusps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Much of Life After God is well-written. Like Ian McEwan, Coupland has a particular talent for capturing ennui. In "Little Creatures," the narrator muses: "The nomadic lifestyle had taken its toll. I had been feeling permanently on the cusp of a flu, feeling at the point where I just wanted to borrow somebody else's coat-borrow somebody else's life-their aura. I seemed to have lost the ability to create any more aura on my own. "But the failure to move beyond this signals Coupland's main weakness as a writer...
...Mark A. Gottlieb, the chair of CUSP's policy committee, which drafted the ordinance, said the proposal already represents long negotiations with restaurateurs and businesspeople...
...they search for answers, the noisy clash of egos and the confusion of conflicting claims may be taken as signs that science is alive and well and likely on the cusp of a major new insight. Says astrophysicist John Bahcall of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton: "Every time we get slapped down, we can say, 'Thank you Mother Nature,' because it means we're about to learn something important...
...banning smoking in restaurants, the city would simply be moving with the tastes of the majority of its citizens. Indeed, CUSP is funded by a 25-cent cigarette tax that was approved by 69 percent of the voters in 1992--in effect saying that they were for policies of smoking prevention. Cambridge should listen to its residents...
...lingering, bar-hopping smokers need not panic--the bill still allows for smoking in bars. The smallest bars have no restrictions at all. Bars would clearly be the biggest losers of revenue under a total ban, as they were in Brookline recently. As a result, CUSP remains sympathetic to them. Ideally we would like to see a total ban, but reality and economics tell us that a ban on smoking in bars would hurt what little bar scene remains in Cambridge...