Word: dubiously
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...almost disarming. They have an earnest hortatory confidence that makes other kinds of word art -- Ben Vautier's in France in the '60s, for instance -- look semidetached. Holzer's trouble is that although she wants to use language alone as the stuff of visual art -- a dubious enterprise anyway -- she has no language. She just rambles, and her linguistic poverty strikes people as "radical," as though it were the result of some exacting distillation. But it is thin and complacent, tarted up with costly materials for the audience of consumers whose pretensions it affects to despise. Its bathos (LACK...
They vote to double their levy on gasoline but only to pay for highways. -- North Carolina and Massachusetts Democrats select their candidates. -- Congressional cold warriors cling to their gospel, but the politics are dubious...
...Justice Department still will not say what prompted its investigation, but many observers speculate that the unprecedented high coast of education drew public scrutiny to the schools' financial practices, some of which were of dubious legality. For instance, experts agreed that the practice of sharing financial aid information in so-called overlap groups, in an effort to offer similar financial aid packages to the same students, could amount to illegal collusion...
...overwork of "working mothers" and the marital strain of two-career families pose serious dangers to the modern family. Unfortunately, the staff seeks to heal society's wounds with a balm of dubious effectiveness...
...balked at pleas from Minnesota Democrats to run for the Senate, but his time may have come again. Next month the Senate ethics committee will hear a torrent of accusations against Republican David Durenberger, including a charge that he accepted $100,000 in outside income through a dubious book deal. Word is that he faces expulsion if he doesn't resign. Democratic Governor Rudy Perpich would appoint a replacement, and Mondale is letting it be known that he would like to return his patented way: by being asked...