"We are sort of at the cusp," its chief anthrax expert, Dr. Bradley Perkins, said.
"I was sort of on the cusp of writing poetry and drawing, but being with a visual artist who had a strong work ethic" - meaning Mapplethorpe - "I developed one too.
He went through a few years there where he was sort of on the cusp of doing some great things, and, boom, he just turned it around mentally," he said.
"I'm almost thrilled, in one sense, chronologically, that it comes sort of right on the cusp in the 1950s before everything changes," said Silverman.
Attrition seemed to result in a sort of leveling of the cusp and of the incisor margins, with shiny wear facets initially limited to the enamel and subsequently becoming deeper, to reach the pulp.
As with the best Max Martin songs, the whole thing feels like it's on the cusp of a sort of indescribable longing, Britney's almost robotic vocals on the verses opening out for the perfect, keening chorus.
The core of the device uses cusp confinement, a sort of magnetic trap in which particles that try to escape are pushed back by rounded, pillowlike magnetic fields.
To those who cared about him, Griffin was the sort of troubled soul who always seemed to be on the cusp of turning his life around, if only he could stay on the right path.
That sort of advice might come as cold comfort to people on the cusp of retirement, and for whom the memories of the recent downturn are fresh.
McGuire says they get around this problem by encapsulating the cusp device inside a magnetic mirror device, a different sort of confinement technique.
