Word: dubiously
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...years were accosted on our way out of Annenberg with sandwiches. This sandwich smuggling, we were told, was dangerous because naive first years that we were, preoccupied with our studies, would forget the contraband in our pockets, only remembering to eat when it had spoiled. If that claim seemed dubious, this new beverage initiative strains credibility still further. Coffee, soda and juice do not often become toxic...
...Dubious or not as a triumph of foreign policy, the canal has functioned perfectly for most of the century, and still does so to the honor of our technological reputation, although its control has reverted to the country T.R. allowed to sprout alongside, like a glorified right...
...lesson of this fiasco has been that the Office of the President has been exposed as incredibly vulnerable. Jones has demonstrated that a single person armed with shallow, dubious accusations and backed by wealthy, politically-motivated contributors can distract our chief executive and nearly cripple his ability to govern...
That said, however, it's easy to see why so many distributors have passed on this Lolita, using as a primary excuse the constitutionally dubious 1996 federal law that prohibits showing sexually suggestive acts with children. But the commercial problem is not so much with the movie Lyne made, working from Stephen Schiff's carefully crafted script, as with the movies he didn't make...
...every melodramatic funny bone in theaudience with their overactive (if repressed)sexual drives. However, the production takentogether as a clumped mass of sexual innuendoperhaps goes overboard on this front. It is inthis aspect that the production becomes in dangerof approximating not Oscar Wilde, but that otherEnglishman of perhaps more dubious fame, BennyHill...