Word: lift
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Only Oprah has taken a stand against these talk-show donnybrooks, rejecting Ricki-like confrontations and stressing more upbeat, inspirational programs. "Oprah's purpose is to lift people up, to help them move on in their lives," says executive producer Dianne Atkinson Hudson. The show is still capable of sensational moments, such as Winfrey's on-air confession two weeks ago that she had used cocaine. But most of her recent topics-couples with credit problems, people who have had bad experiences calling 911-would seem hopelessly staid to her voyeuristic competitors...
...than I am,'' gripes Chicagoan Vicky Baron. ``I mean, they've got all their steaks just lined up!'' The revolt against the disadvantaged, ranging from calls for welfare reform to the backlash against illegal immigrants, has emerged as a national policy prescription. Will self-reliance turn mean? Will it lift America's spirits? Pessimists abound. Mario Cuomo, New York's ousted Governor, predicts that voters will keep reversing themselves: ``Unless the mood changes dramatically, you won't be able to do enough to satisfy them...
China officially abandoned its bid for the huge Asian satellite TV market today when a rocket carrying a TV satellite blew up 65 seconds after lift-off. The destroyed U.S.-made satellite, which would have provided television, telephone and digital telecommunications for Asia and parts of eastern Europe, northern Africa and Australia, was the latest -- and apparently the last -- disaster to strike the Chinese commercial space agency...
...trailblazer in entertaining, eager-to-offend conservatism was William F. Buckley Jr. in the early '60s. His cutting wit had the patina of moral certitude, in a fight his liberal opponents were often too genteel to win. Buckley's heirs (William Safire, Buchanan, P.J. O'Rourke) helped lift from Republicans the stigma of the pruney banker. On the radio side, conservative talk also had '50s and '60s pioneers: cantankerous Joe Pine and Bob Grant. Grant and Limbaugh, who have broadcast back to back on New York City's WABC since 1988, have set the limits -- one growly, the other comic...
...Linnaean String Quartet, a group of four musicians from the class of 1995, followed Brown's address with their performance of "Anthem," a movement of a piece composed by Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies. Elkies based the movement on James Weldon Johnson's "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing...