Word: tokening
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Horowitz said he realized the Left's answer would be that Winfrey is "a token." However, Horowitz countered, "Oprah Winfrey isn't a token--Cornel West is a token. He's an empty intellectual suit, he's not that smart, and he got his place because of the scramble for black faces in the university by the liberal administration...
...another one" is about the best description there is for it. Yet another man-remakes-woman Eliza Dolittle story. Yet Another dork-becomes-diva Clueless yarn. Yet another token effort to lightly evaluate the competitive arenas of cutthroat youth culture, a la Varsity Blues. Yet another excuse for beautiful Clearasil poster children to cavort in trendy togs and perform breathtaking cell phone stunts. It screams designer soundtrack and even more designer reality, every honest fiber of your being wants to oppose it. In your snider moments, you deprecate that you could write this screenplay your-self. Let's be honest...
Ellen Zucker, a lawyer at Dwyer and Collora who represents four of the litigants, claims that these women, often the lone minorities in their department, were patronized by their white coworkers and "were made to feel as if they were token minorities hired simply because of their race...
...season certainly is not lost--by the same token, two early losses in conference do not doom a year--but after Dartmouth this Wednesday the team will have three weeks without basketball to take stock of the first half of the season and determine if it likes the way it has progressed...
When Sullivan first arrived in Washington two decades ago as a reporter for the San Diego-based Copley newspapers, each news bureau had one token woman on staff, she said...