Ms. Samon, like many Americans born in the 1950's, retained little nostalgia for her family homestead and what she considered its dubious style pedigree.
Those jaunty visored newsboy hats, popularized by such dubious style makers as Valerie Bertinelli on "One Day at a Time," Paul Simon in his "Say, Say, Say" video, the boxer Jerry Cooney and, oh, newsboys, are back.
It's unclear, but perhaps it has something to do with the dubious style template set by Tony Blair when he met a bomber jacket-wearing George Bush at Camp David wearing a too-stiff jumper and navy trousers.
Like Kajaki, it is based on a real incident, though unlike Kajaki it includes copious combat sequences, with much dubious videogame-style footage along the American soldiers' sightlines.
Is he/isn't he attractive?), attended a Hollywood premiere last year wearing a three-lions T-shirt under a trucker shirt, and Wyclef Jean has been known to sport the dubious team-strip style on his trips to the UK.
The main one probably concerns the expensive acquisition of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, an enigmatic player whose suitability to the Barça style remains dubious.
Meanwhile, lead guitarist Matthew Followill pirouetted on the spot, like a kid who's convinced that he is Keith Richards, complete with dubious headband and Eighties-style cap-sleeved T-shirt.
Beside Milford's patient, scrupulous account, Daniel Mark Epstein's "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" seems a hasty sketch, short on narrative detail, long on overheated enthusiasm, dubious speculation and slapdash style.
Cool, by my definition, isn't contrived, and that's where the xB's self-conscious quirks — from its strange but not-quite-strange-enough styling to dubious options like cup holders illuminated by L.E.D.'s — run it off the tracks.
Among these was the BJ100 concept, a hulking, Hummer-like lug with rectilinear styling and dubious parentage.
