Word: cusps
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...unlucky -- for everyone else," says Searcy, sounding just like a rookie in his first major-league camp. For now, his number is 60. "I feel like an offensive lineman." Three years ago Boston's Roger Clemens was in Searcy's position precisely, a wide-eyed college star on the cusp of the big leagues, anticipating a few Triple-A weeks in the light early season before a fifth starter is summoned. Searcy admits, "The first time I faced Darrell Evans in an intrasquad game, I just couldn't pitch to him. But these guys aren't gods...
...seldom fancy, unafraid of ornament but almost never giddy. There is an unabashedness about construction and materials, but this lightly worn constructivism is a matter of instinct, not doctrine. Much of the new generation's architecture recalls the best buildings of the 1910s and '20s, buildings on the cusp between the neoclassical and the modern -- early, excitingly unsettled modernism, before assembly-line imitation gave austerity a bad name. The work of the younger generation, then, may be backward-looking, but its inspirations are antiquity and the early 20th century, not the 18th and 19th centuries. Quaintness does not excite...
...Schoenberg, Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Hoffmann, Wagner and Loos -- as well as the young Adolf Hitler, a desperate artist-architect manque. Old cultural dogmas had been discredited, new doctrines not yet entrenched. Imminence was all. Artists and intellectuals all over Europe shared a sense of being on the very cusp -- between a smug century and a mad one, between well-behaved traditionalism and liberated modernism -- but nowhere was the sense more highly refined than in hothouse Vienna. Right now, on each side of the Atlantic, that singular, overwrought time and place is evoked in two remarkable museum shows...
...retake of some 35 years ago, when her mother, Grace Kelly, was a model before becoming a movie star. She projected a serene, society-page sexiness. Stephanie has a contem- porary appeal: athletic, funky, challenging. She has been a mannequin only a few months, but she is on the cusp of signing a hefty contract with the Italian designer Enrico Coveri (exact figures to be publicized only when the ink is dry). She was due to appear in New York to pose for Vogue and LIFE before an eleventh- hour cancellation put a temporary cap on Stephanie's lens hopping...
...swamp of maudlin genre and low-grade history painting. They believed, with the ardent simplicity of young minds, that this decay had set in three centuries before, with Raphael. Hence they wanted to go back before Raphael, appealing to a moment in history-the Middle Ages on the cusp, as it were, of the Renaissance-when art seemed not to be entangled in false ideals and academic systems. Their bywords were purge, simplify, archaize. Like all true cultural revolutionaries, they were conservatives at heart, and they were lucky in having as their megaphone and mentor the greatest art critic ever...