Word: cusps
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...effect with his rival's cookie-tossing eagerness for it. Luciano Odorisio's Dear Maestro is not much to look at, but it is shrewd in its examination of how envious small-town gossip exacerbates a contest that neither participant wants, compassionate about men standing on the cusp of middle age, still scrambling to keep their dreams glimmering, and pleasingly ironic in the way it works out its story...
...niece. He has, Conaway observes, "grown broad of beam," sitting there with his dog Pete, "a black Lab with the canine equivalent of a beer belly." Conaway sketches in the intervening years: at Harper's, "his stewardship foundered in 1971," so Morris went off "to dwell on the cusp of his own notoriety." His books since are quickly disposed of: one is "a disappointment to his admirers"; another a critic had called "derivative drivel"; a third "did nothing to enhance Morris' reputation...
...majority of bankruptcies involve small-scale enterprises, companies such as lumberyards and machine shops or retail stores with sales of less than $100,000. These firms operate on the cusp of the business community, and they traditionally suffer from inadequate capital, inexperienced management and pressures from larger, more established competitors. High interest rates and slow growth have wiped out the margin for error that these firms might have enjoyed in prosperous times, and only a few of the best-managed ones are surviving...
...take up the simpler but perhaps more moving case first, is a widower, standing on the cusp of old age, living on his late wife's money on a ranch somewhere in Bunuel country. He reads, plays chess against a computer, vigorously conducts the music he plays on his hifi. Sometimes he visits his mistress in Salamanca, more frequently he calls on his only friend, a priest, to chide him with anticlerical chat. He has become less worldly than the good father, and easy prey for Goyita, a 13-year-old schoolgirl (Ana Torrent of Cria), an instinctive siren...
...sound of children at prayer and Darwin is just a theorist, where school buses rust quietly in their garages, and sex and violence are banished from television screens and library shelves, where men are men and women know their place, which is in the home.* As America rides the cusp of a Reagan-inspired reversion to basics, that vision seems nearer than it has been in decades...