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Holub's most ascerbic essays lambast this spurious Soviet science, in which party-approved researchers concoct absurd theories to please their superiors. In their best form, these essays take the form of veiled political satire, an art perfected by the Czechs...
...Coalition makes other spurious arguments. Harvard's not buying grapes actually hurts the workers, they say, since there is then lesser demand and thus lower wages for grape pickers. But can the companies that denied their workers clean water and bathrooms just years ago now be assumed to pass on profits to these same workers...
...these purported social institutions? Why do men need to be beaten into submission in order to make appropriate husbands? And why does the author believe that "if men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly"? No valid arguments or data are presented to support these spurious contentions...
...Your spurious remark that former Mouseketeers are "turning nasty" verges on the tabloidesque and, by inference, taints 37 former child stars. For more than 42 years, the Mouseketeers were not involved in any incidents of substance abuse or bouts with the law, while the palpable problems of other child actors are well known. The union that represents us Mouseketeers, the Screen Actors Guild, is pursuing a claim against the studio on our behalf. Finally, thanks for superimposing Billie Jean Matay's photo over my face. I have assiduously avoided appearances in the tabloids for all these years. LONNIE BURR (MOUSEKETEER...
...agency work harder and more loyally. That's his theory, anyway, and Kate (Jennifer Aniston) doesn't fit it. She's single and living within an income that does not match her talent. A friend suggests she invent a fiance to get a raise based on this spurious evidence of stability. A wedding videographer named Nick (Jay Mohr) agrees to go along with the gag, hoping to turn their fake affair into the real thing...