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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.
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!"
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.
Buchanan throws in tenuous assertions and crusty old theories willy-nilly, regardless of their provenance.
There are many uses of cat in the naming of wild species, some having tenuous associations.