Word: speciousness
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...Experimental pop” is a pretty specious term, but when dealing with a band like Animal Collective and their new album, “Strawberry Jam,” it’s necessary. Pop bands nowadays are trying their best to recreate Brian Wilson’s genius, but their output almost always comes off as just another Beach Boys tribute. Animal Collective is one of the only bands that takes Wilson’s influence to heart and then expands on it, pushing the conventions of pop music to their outer limits. In large part, that achievement...
...That's a bold statement. It's also utterly specious. As every high-school biology student knows, evolution is neither a tidy nor quick process. Even if Clark could somehow prove that prosperity is hereditary - survival of the richest, he terms it - it doesn't follow that genetics, rather than geography or blind luck, caused Europe to industrialize before the rest of the world. Isn't it just as likely that innovations such as the steam engine, and the exploitation of its colonies, made England wealthy? And Clark's social Darwinism doesn't explain why equally stable and sophisticated societies...
Musharraf's tenure may be drawing to a close, but his strength is still quite visible. Over the weekend thousands of Sharif's supporters were detained or thrown in jail on specious charges. Last night the secretary general of his party was taken in by security forces, despite having set up a safe house in anticipation of such an occurrence. And a convoy of party leaders setting out for the airport to greet Sharif was stopped less than two miles from its departure point by scores of police armed with riot shields and metal-tipped bamboo staves. Parliamentarian Tamina Dultana...
...anything from bombing the London tube to an attack on New York's subway. Thanks to the Internet, a suicide bomber under bin Laden's sway can buy all the chemicals he needs from his local pharmacy to fabricate a bomb. He also can find the religious guidance, as specious as it might be, to justify...
...comfortable, friendly, social and meeting space. The year’s activities—over 400 meetings and events in our space in less than 240 days of operation—confirms that we have much to offer the community in this respect. We will continue to counter the specious idea that we can’t be both welcoming and weighty by cheerfully and confidently being both...