Kimball cited the band as "the best damn rock and roll band this country has produced in the past five years" and said of comparisons to the Grateful Dead at the time, "The range of their material and the more tenuous fact that they also use two drummers have led to what I suppose are inevitable comparisons to the Dead in its better days".
There are others that are even more tenuous: the fact, for example, that in "Private Benjamin," Brooks plays Judy Benjamin's husband Yale Goodman (Goodman, of course, is the maiden name of Brooks' real-life mother, Thelma Leeds); Yale dies during sex on his wedding night, which is a form of performing.
But as often happens with stories involving the police, the Dunkin/cop beef, however tenuous its bare facts, has taken on a life if its own at this point.
Compare and contrast with the 2016 Republican presidential field, led by a retired neurosurgeon with a tenuous grasp of fact and a bullying property-impresario-cum-reality television star, neither of whom have spent a day in elective office.
Felton's wife was becoming more critical of his way of life, and their situation was made more tenuous by the fact that Felton had been corresponding, for his last few months in prison and after his release, with a 21-year-old woman named Erica Chase, a tattooed racist then living in Michigan City, Ind.
And in 1932 even this tenuous link to the facts failed: the figure was distorted by merely multiplying acreage by optimum yield.
Clinton Heylin, in his book "Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited" (2001), countered that the song "verges on the libelous" because of "its tenuous grasp of the facts of the case".
Brewer's grasp of facts is tenuous, after all: she told The Arizona Republic in 2010 that her father died fighting the Nazis in Germany, when he died a decade after the end of the war, which he spent working at an ammunition factory in Nevada.
The poor syntax alerted me that the message might bear a tenuous relationship to the facts.
Sometimes, the reason why McCain's dangerously tenuous grasp on the facts doesn't strike the media as odd is because they believe the same thing.
