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...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...
...same token, now that the Russian people have spoken, it is time to change our attitude to Russia's foreign policy too. During the fight to the , finish between the Soviet-era Congress and Yeltsin, it made sense for the U.S. to back him to the hilt. That meant bending over backward not to offend Russian nationalism: leaning hard on Ukraine to disarm; raising no fuss when Russian troops intervened in Georgia, Tajikistan and Moldova; keeping the East Europeans out of NATO...
...somehow, the set manages to steer clear from feeling like each song was meant to be a token something ("Cumbia & Jazz Fusion" the one Latin song, "Myself When I Am Real" the one piano song, "Meditations on Integration" the one social-protest song, and so on), perhaps because every piece in this set is so breathtaking...
...more than two years later, my outlook has changed. I've been in too many sections where men shout out their answers and women hang back. I've talked to too many friends who were "token women" in high school activities, or who were discouraged from taking math and science. I've been told to "calm down" too many times when I've raised my voice slightly in justified anger or concern...