Word: matter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elaine, a retired cannery superintendent and a descendant of 1884 presidential candidate James G. Elaine, once accused of perjury and thereafter known as the "continental liar from the state of Maine." "We have less and less interest in each succeeding election. Things don't get better no matter who's in the White House. I looked for ward to a comfortable retirement. It won't be. I just retired and already I'm dipping into assets...
Acknowledging that his intimate personal participation in the peace process had also risked "the prestige of the U.S.," the President stressed that "the efforts would have been worth making regardless of the outcome. In war, we offer our very lives as a matter of routine. We must be no less daring, no less steadfast, in the pursuit of peace...
...polishing off five pounds of cream cheese, whole eggs, cane sugar and water, no matter how well Rowinsky puts it together, has proved impossible, and sometimes revolting, for many lesser gluttons...
...cuckold who gets his kicks with 11-years-olds--modeled at least in part on the Cowboy star of yore, Lance Rentzel? And who really is L.D. Groover, the 270-lb. defensive tackle and disciple of Wilhelm Reich who jerks off in a rabbit-fur-lined Coldspot? No matter...
...matter because although the action is provided by football, this is much more a novel of Texas society, it its own way as interesting as Blood and Money. Thompson's exploration of murder among Houston's very rich. Gent excels at capturing vignettes of that life--the celebrity fishing tournament, a Dallas businessman winking over hiscoke spoon the while his Mercedes is stopped at a traffic light. And Gent tries mightily to give the book some vision, tying his Neiman-Marcus set into a cocaine smuggling ring of heroic proportions, furnishing it with an ex-astronaut lackey who becomes...