Word: token
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This fall, however, battling and bickering are back in style. In CBS's Teech, a black music teacher gets hired at a snooty white boarding school, providing the occasion for a predictable batch of racial wisecracks. ("I am only reluctantly conforming to federal guidelines," sniffs the headmaster to his token hire. "Shoeshine?" offers the teacher.) NBC's Pacific Station pairs a hard-boiled police detective (Robert Guillaume) with a flaky new partner (Richard Libertini), who brews herb tea and spouts New Age psychobabble. Only the two stars' professionalism keeps this from being a match made in hell...
...examined dealings between Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, a leader of the Medellin cocaine cartel who died in a 1989 shootout with police, and a Colombian shadow bank that B.C.C.I. used to launder drug money. Among other things, the probers want to know why Colombian prosecutors slapped B.C.C.I. with a token $10,000 fine after discovering that the shadow bank took in a whopping $45 million in foreign currency in just six months in 1986 -- six times the amount B.C.C.I.'s Colombia branch reported for the entire year. The branch split apart from B.C.C.I. last week when it was acquired...
...later, however, it is disappointingly the same. Says Calvin Peete, the foremost black pro: "Shoal Creek really did not have much impact." The nation's private golf clubs -- symbols of power and privilege at play, manicured enclaves of racial, religious and sexual discrimination -- show few signs of more than token reform...
...same token, it would be hard to imagine a funnier, better modulated comic performance from Robin Williams than the Babel of Slavic accents he brings to a Russian folktale called The Fool and the Flying Ship. Or a more touching turn by Sigourney Weaver than her reading of the pensive Japanese story Peachboy. Or a sprightlier showcase for Michael Palin's Pythonesque versatility than his rendition of Jack and the Beanstalk...
Ortega is still living in a house seized from Jaime Morales Carazo and valued at $950,000, including antiques and an art collection. Last April Ortega paid a token $2,500 to the former Sandinista government for the deed to the house, which is protected from prying eyes by a high wall decorated with festive murals. Other top Sandinistas also retired in style. Miguel D'Escoto, the rotund priest and ex-Foreign Minister, paid only $13,000 for one of the capital's plushest mansions...