Word: token
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TOKEN OF APPRECIATION...
...sorry. I thought that a 'gift' implied something of a value given as a token of love or appreciation. Maybe you're thinking of 'extortion,' you bloodsucking maggot...
...case, the troubles of the past certainly merit more than a token search for the person who is to lead Expos into the future. And if Nancy Sommers is indeed the best person for the Director's job--as she may well be--then she should be able to win it through a legitimate national search...
...names for its buildings.) And I understand that giving is not something that comes naturally to everyone; it does have to be learned. What better way to learn than through the Senior Gift, a concerted drive by members of the class to pump their friends for a token donation of cash...
...talks about how "bourgeois" it is to have a dinner party when people are starving. The inconsistencies in her character are blinding--she's planning to run away to Lithuania but is working on a summer project for school; she rails against her mother's lifestyle but, after that token comment about it being bourgeois, happily joins in on the dinner party. Some of this could have been alleviated had Tess been played in a more light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek manner (as possibly Wasserstein intended.) However, Debra Eisenstadt gives a heavy-handed performance as the sulky daughter, exacerbating Tess...