Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then Haynes had managed to guide his disabled craft toward Sioux City in a wide descending spiral of right turns. "We're going to make an emergency landing in Sioux City," he warned passengers over the intercom. "It's going to be rough." He paused. "As a matter of fact, it's going to be more than rough...
...doesn't much matter to Henley. "People have short memories and attention spans," he notes. "They forget me as soon as I'm off MTV. I'm glad." That kind of confidence can come not only from satisfaction in his work but also from a sense that the work has paid off. Out just a month ago, the new album has already gone gold: the title cut, released as a single, sounds similarly hit-bound. It is a ravishing love song, slightly world-weary and bracingly off-center, nostalgic for better loves and wiser times...
...plane/ . . . or maybe it was Elvis/ You know, they kinda look the same"), and a memorably nasty cameo portrait of Ronald Reagan as a cowboy named Jingo in Little Tin God. That's vintage Henley, delivered with a snarl and a smile, but The Heart of the Matter, which ends the record, is the struggle for a different sense of place, another state of grace: "I've been tryin' to get down to the heart of the matter/ Because the flesh will get weak and the ashes will scatter/ So I'm thinkin' about forgiveness/ Forgiveness/ Even if, even...
...similar code were drawn up with right-wing imperatives in mind -- one banning unpatriotic, irreligious or sexually explicit expressions on campus -- the people framing Wisconsin-type rules would revert to their libertarian pasts. In this competition to suppress, is regard for freedom of expression just a matter of whose ox is getting gored at the moment? Does the left just get nervous about the Christian cross when Klansmen burn it, while the right will react only when Madonna flirts crucifixes between her thighs...
...revenue officials plan to attack the drug dealers matter-of-factly. If a dealer's records show he sold $100,000 worth of drugs, "he should have been charging a 5 percent sales tax. He should have gotten $105,000 from the [sales] and then turned that $5000 over to the state," Houghteling said...