Word: tokenisms
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...been left for Rabin and Arafat to come to terms on the size of the self-rule district around Jericho. Israel prefers a token zone of 20 sq. mi., whereas the P.L.O. wants twice that area. The two leaders must also decide whether a Palestinian policeman will be stationed midway on the Jordan River bridge. It seems a minor point, but to the P.L.O. such a presence would go far to create an image of Palestinian sovereignty -- which is precisely why the Israelis oppose...
...went in with the first group of students," says Elizabeth M. Harvey '73, who was co-chair of the national student political group, students for a Democratic Society (SDS). "The administration left. That was a very token gesture...
Yards of dialogue have been taken almost verbatim from the novel. It is a token of Eliot's genius for realism that most of it rings truer than some of the words concocted by Middlemarch's capable scenarist, Andrew Davies. In a bodice-ripping love scene that is not in the novel, Rosamond tells her smitten husband, "You must be gentle with me, Tertius, now I am with child." Even on her worst day, George Eliot could never have written a line as precious as that...
Only a boy's life, however. There are cheerleaders and girlfriends and the rare token female participant (two girls on D2's hockey team), but sports movies are about male bonding. Beating the other guy displays primeval survival skills; getting the crap kicked out of you and not whining proves you are a man; talkin' trash makes you cool. Above the Rim, a gamy but conventional film about a high school basketball phenom detoured on his road to Georgetown by Harlem sleaze kings, is all about not letting street sarcasm get you down. A stream of abuse is the musical...
Fortunately, being the aspiring young spies that we are, we know the pat catch phrases to repeat if you are, indeed, in the CIA, or at least want to pretend you are. We share them with you here as a token of our faith...