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...that and anachronistic too. Proudly so. "We come from a weird generation," Hutchence explains. "We were born on the cusp between the '70s and '80s, like U2 and Simple Minds. The whole live thing was very prominent in those days, before people made or broke their careers through video. We're an anachronism. But a good one. We're enjoying...
...language as a spoken tongue. A native English speaker who was raised in New Bedford, Mass., and did not learn Yiddish until he studied Jewish history in college, Lansky clung to the language with a convert's passion -- in part, he says, because it represented a culture "on the cusp," not in the mainstream but on the periphery. The experiences and insights of Yiddish literature, Lansky felt, should not be lost. "As native speakers pass on," he says, "the books become the sole access to the last thousand years of Jewish history...
...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...