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MAYBE RYDER SHOULD have done some of his hatchet work on the script. A film of this dubious caliber should not try to hold an audience's attention for longer than an hour-and-a-half. So there's about an extra half hour of wandering around in the desert, getting chased by hick cops who all look the same, or watching Hauer do his imitation of The Thing That Wouldn't Die in Hitcher. Some editing could have been done, perhaps enough to make this an MTV video...
Accuracy in Academia--a spin-off of the rightist group, Accuracy in Media--owes its conception and its methods to principles that are dubious at best, dangerous at worst...
Lawrence's comparison is dubious and dangerous. Equating classroom and newspaper is like equating the process of debate with its product. Commentators and politicians have made a case against AIA's methods by arguing from the liberal perspective that sees the organization as a right-wing group that uses McCarthyist methods...
...would hope that an organization founded on such dubious and contradictory principles as Accuracy in Academia would collapse of its own weight. However, one would have hoped the very same thing three decades ago when an unknown Senator from Wisconsin named Joseph McCarthy stood on the Senate floor with his own set of dubious principles. The American public has the unfortunate ability to support a good measure of absurdity, so long as it wears the mask of good-old patriotic Red hunting...
...inspiring "freedom fighter" in recent memory, was cheated out of the Philippine presidency by the Marcos's sleazy shenanigans. The presidential hemming and hawing on the Philippine election, which Aquino correctly called a contest between good and evil, came during a new Administration initiative to funnel aid to two dubious movements: the Contras in Nicaragua and Jonas Savimbi's South Africa-backed rebels in Angola...