Word: matter
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Huchra's conclusion that our galaxy is moving at a rate different from the "Hubble Flow," the average speed of matter in the universe, is corroborated by other research...
Almost every newspaper and magazine profile of the senior Senator from Massachusetts routinely mentions his reputation as a Lothario, but up to now no reputable journals have published any exhaustive investigation into the matter. "In this day and age," says Boston Herald American Editor Donald Forst, "I don't think that a story about a public figure having a relationship with a woman other than his wife is all that significant." Most editors agree that news judgments must be made on a case-by-case basis. Says Bill German, managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle...
...that matter, Hagman does everything just right, and the chief joy of Dallas is watching him play an overstuffed lago in a stetson hat. Mean? There ain't nobody meaner than this dude. But Hagman plays him with such obvious zest and charm that he is impossible to dislike. Why was lago so evil? Hagman knows: it's fun being bad. And that is the secret the creators of Dallas have discovered too. Audiences applaud the good guys, but they watch the bad ones, hour after hour after hour. -Gerald Clarke
Kuhn sent a letter outlining his position to Mays' new employer one month ago, but neither Mays nor his lawyer was shown the letter. Mays learned of the matter only when Kuhn gave him a week to choose between baseball and casinos. He was shocked by the ultimatum. Says Mays: "I don't have anything to do with gambling. I just play golf with the customers, and after that, they take pictures and the customers put them on their office walls. That's all there...
...laconic, seemingly impersonal surfaces of Pritchett's stories give off a surprising amount of animal heat. It is a matter of design, craftsmanship and, as the author has written, "the supreme pleasure of putting oneself in by leaving oneself out." The technique requires the placement of the precise detail at the exact emotional distance, and it gave his autobiography the immediacy of his fiction. Here, for example, is that extraordinary passage from Midnight Oil in which Pritchett describes one of the more dramatic consequences of his father's exasperating personality: "He had no notion of what...