There is evidence that gymnastics, and perhaps all youth sports, have their dark side, with domination by coaches, harsh training practices, perhaps dubious ages for some of the tiny Chinese athletes.
Such a loss had been forecast last week by Lindsay aides, relying on unofficial figures of dubious parent age and even more dubious authenticity.
Thus, the function of rhetoric appeared to be the systematic production of certain kinds of discourse, but the significance of this now clearly productive art became increasingly dubious in ages when governments did not allow public deliberation on social or political issues or when the most significant speaking was done by church authorities whose training had been capped by logic and theology.
By emphasizing that "the question is which point of view and party do you want to lead the country," Kennedy did firm up his support among Democrats previously dubious about his age and religion, especially in the South, and increase his standing among independents who knew too little about him.
He's doled out huge player contracts of dubious value to aging superstars like Deion Sanders (seven years, $56 million) and hired and fired coaches with alarming frequency (five different head coaches in five years).
After every distributor in New York turned The Evil Dead down, Raimi was rescued by the emergent UK outlet Palace Pictures, which made it a national hit, then had to defend it in court from that dubious antique VCR-age slur "video-nasty".
She was herself once a hyper-rationalist skeptic, to hear her tell it (born Larisa Koronowski, a translator for the Tuvan government for ages), dubious of the shamans who still outperformed psychologists in popular Tuvan medicine.
In order to introduce evidence about Rajaratnam's Goldman trades, the government subpoenaed Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman's chairman and chief executive, who has come to represent the face of investment banking in an age of dubious and destructive practices.
This is set in Wiltshire, but the behaviour of this group of outlaws living somewhat free range and off the grid is hilariously recognisable, and such a portrait requires an author truly in tune with the speech and rhythms and habits of this rural subculture, in which New Age sentiments, dubious interactions, violence and poetry all co-exist.
Blier's film was the launch of Depardieu but it was actually the end of something — of a willful anarchic obliviousness and insolence, born of a pre-'68 spirit and rendered obsolete and dubious by a new age of politics (governmental and personal).
