You know what I mean by 'Gustav'?" I said, "Yes, I know". "How is the matter progressing?
"As this matter progresses it will become clear that Mr. Parnell never intentionally shipped or intentionally caused to be shipped any tainted food products capable of harming P.C.A.'s customers," said a statement from the firm, Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore.
"As we understand it, the club and player were in discussions and contact was then made with the PFA as matters progressed given the particular circumstances of this situation and we were simply being asked to publicly reiterate our support for the club in signing him.
LAHOUSEN: I cannot repeat his exact words, but the meaning was that he proclaimed the intention of having Giraud killed, and asked me, as in the case of Weygand, how the matter was progressing or had progressed so far.
Our understanding is that there will be no substantive enquiries made of him at the hearing, nor will the matter be progressed otherwise than as a matter of procedure".
As matters progressed through the eighties and early nineties, the pleasures of controlling moving images on a screen, of bewitching sound effects and saturated colors, came to video games, and these were seductive in a new and different way.
But as matters progressed — with the Mastersinger and cobbler Hans Sachs coaching the young knight Walther von Stolzing for the climactic song contest, which would in the end win Walther the hand of his beloved Eva — the orchestral fabric grew richer, more coherent and more vibrant throughout its ceaseless flow.
Matters progressed to the point where a Viennese critic complained that "the public has got to stay in touch with the music of its time... for otherwise people will gradually come to mistrust music claimed to be the best," and organizers of a Paris series observed that some of their subscribers "get upset when they see the name of a single contemporary composer on the programs".
Soon enough, composers were filling their scores with patterns, pictures, and verbal instructions, and matters progressed to the logical extreme of Cage's "Theatre Piece" (1960), during which a piano was slapped with a dead fish.
Mary D. Dorman, a lawyer in Manhattan with a home in Orient and one of those cited, said the group welcomed a chance to argue its case in the Southold Town Justice Court and, depending on how matters progressed, perhaps in higher courts.
Matters progressed smoothly until they visited the apartment for a preclosing walk-through and, to their shock, saw the wooden mantelpiece lying on the living room floor like a beached whale.
