Word: tokenizes
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Rich turned down the National Medal for the Arts offered to her by President Clinton. In a letter printed in The New York Times, Rich wrote that "art..means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage... A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while people at large are so dishonored...
Sure, Thanksgiving is supposed to be about carved-in-stone traditions-Detroit Lions NFL games, drippy cranberry sauce, the day after shopping craze, the nationwide massacre of an arbitrary bird, the token acknowledgement of Pilgrim-Indian relations-but where in the bylaws for Turkey Day does it demand that pop culture dissolve into templates...
...Cost a Thing," which has a melody eerily similar to "If You Had My Love" (wait! Two complaints: 1) "If You Had My Love" suggested a possibility that you might not get Jen's love while "My Love Don't Cost a Thing" gives up even that token pretense of resistance. What a tramp!... and 2) I think Puff Daddy would disagree. Jennifer's love costs a whole lotta dough. No "Ifs", ands, or butts about it.) Hit "seek" again and you'll also inevitably hear more of Ricky Martin's bastardized Latin pop. Like the BSB, the only interesting...
...simple. By virtue of its idiosyncrasies (and well-targeted vandalisms of certain billboards), the Giant campaign has become a token of solidarity among those dissatisfied with modern pop culture. It is, of course, ironic that a symbol of nothing could become so quickly a symbol of symbolizing nothing...
...Fear not, Thresky; rest assured, you are our most beloved Bird-- We shall guard you from those Poonsters; cease your weeping, we implore! Shed no feather as a token of the cruel things they have spoken, Leave their solitude unbroken!--Stay with us forevermore! Leave their sad mock-Flemish castle to their new-made impostor! "You're safe," we murmured, "forevermore...