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Some examples can be found in [ 2 3 4 5 6 ] . Importantly natural history models based only on observational data must implicitly assume no selection bias, a very tenuous assumption.
That identification with Kennedy accounts in part for Brinkley's tenuous proposition: that Kennedy's death is the signal event of his generation, the moment Gen X lost its innocence.
The first is an absorbing, low-budget art movie about conjoined twins, the weaker of whom is dying and mordant, the other torn (so to speak) between loyalty to his brother and a tenuous connection to the external world--embodied in part by a prostitute (Michele Hicks) who looks like Bridget Fonda as Vampira and acts like a slightly less wooden porn star.
Most tenuous Kennedy tie-in: The Enquirer 's story about the death of actress Sandra Gould, best known as nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz on Bewitched . The Enquirer manages to find it "ironic" that Gould died just days after Kennedy, given that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis once bumped into her at Bloomingdale's and confided that John and Caroline were "huge fans."
What's odd about this is that game shows--even if they're not fixed like they were in the '50s--are real only in a very tenuous sense.