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...must not let in daylight upon magic." This wedding on the cusp of high noon, in front of a world short on ritual and parched for romance, is in fact one grand pass of the royal wand, a masterly and pricey piece of prestidigitation in which, at once, the old values are upheld, the future is assured and everyone can be queen...
...decline began later, when the drug dealers and muggers came on to the scene, and it gathered frightening speed after the riots of 1964. The '60s and '70s also saw civil rights protests and parades and attempts to resurrect the lost spirit. Yet only now, on the cusp of a new decade, are there tentative signs of another Harlem renaissance...
Return of the Secaucus Seven. Seven veterans of the antiwar movement meet, on the cusp of maturity, ten years after. John Sayles wrote the year's wittiest screenplay, found humor and humanity in his subject...
...Australia has discovered film, it has rediscovered its own past. Some of the finest Australian films (Picnic at Hanging Rock, My Brilliant Career, Breaker Morant) are set on the cusp of the 20th century, when the country was approaching federation and its citizens were struggling for an identity apart from that of decorous Mother England. This was a country in adolescent turbulence. No wonder, then, that so many Australian novels (and now films) are tales of young nonconformists seeking liberation through maturity or anarchy. In The Getting of Wisdom, a bright upstart triumphs over the snobbery of her classmates...
...compromise position may be possible if the cusp model is replaced by a "butterfly" catastrophe allowing the input of two additional control factors. Woodcock and Davis suggest that the absorption of the Atomic Energy Commission by the Energy Research and Development Agency may permit both lobbying groups to reconcile their demands...