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An American couple, Bob and Louise Koke, opened the first hotel on Kuta Beach in 1936; Louise G. Koke’s memoir, Our Hotel In Bali, provides an idyllic portrait of Bali’s first, tenuous endeavor at tourism from 1936 until the Japanese invasion in 1942.
But Barry recognized that the trappings of power were tenuous, too.
In later years it appears in various guises-- Flibbertigibbet (a fiend referred to in King Lear , III, iv), Mrs. Flibber de' Jibb (1640), Flibbertigibbet or “Dickie Sludge” (a dwarf in Kenilworth ). Admittedly tenuous, this suggestion might last till a better one comes along.
The line, which linked up with the Union Pacific at Promontory, Utah, in 1869, was built under the most hazardous conditions, using poorly paid Chinese laborers who sometimes worked suspended in wicker baskets over sheer cliffs to hack a tenuous cutting through the steep passes of the Sierras.
And I guess that is what happened here because not only was our friend Brandy/Moesha apparently upset that she "had put on weight in her bust and thighs"; she also revealed that she did indeed have a very tenuous grasp on reality when, according to the article, she threw her script at the show's producer's on Nov. 8 and screamed, "This is a bunch of crap and I'm not doing it anymore!"