Word: tokenisms
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Some say that regardless of what they see as token gestures on Coors' part, the brewery will never live down its past. According to Richard Zayas '88, "All of a sudden Coors is helping the Hispanic community...But the ads, the scholarships, can't replace the record that they already have...
...There will be some token competition," said Goldman, who said Joseph Kaspar, who represents South Boston on the city's school board, and Joseph Tierney, a city councilman, are two who may oppose Flynn...
...There's token rock and roll number, and one hilarious swipe at the last gasp of the Golden Age of Hollywood, as Buck and his singing group, the High Hopes, don spangled over-alls for "Put the Blame on Mamie (She Painted the White House Pink)" from the smash film that should've been, The Mamie Eisenhower Story.But the show never strays too far from its home, the nite-club, where "Song-stylists" moan torch songs and members of a capella groups strive, in the true spirit of the age, to be utterly indistinguishable from each other...
...with a half-hour Captain Power program to be broadcast on Saturday or Sunday nights beginning next fall. A mixture of live action and computer animation, Captain Power -- much like preteen action cartoons -- takes place in a futuristic outer-space setting where a crew of good guys (and a token gal) engage in endless scrapes with the forces of evil...
...when Reagan told Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir that he himself had liberated Jews from the Nazi death camps he was not simply making a blunder. Reagan never left the country during the War, and he knows it; it's hard to confuse Hollywood with Auschwitz. By the same token, when Reagan claimed he had received a message "from Pope John Paul urging us to continue our efforts in Central America," he was not confusing the Pontiff with his wife Nancy she was lying...