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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Early this week, Dartboard's diligent TV writer was flipping channels (and only flipping, mind you, not, heaven forbid, watching ) he caught a most curious dialogue on Oprah. A man grimly recounted the details of his alien abduction. It was tame fare for the voluminous queen of daytime trash, nothing all out of the ordinary...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DARTBOARD | 4/23/1994 | See Source »

...role models, survival on groceries charged to my parents' Food Emporium courtesy card), I doubtless comprise a member of the "Reality Bites" target audience. Like so many to those who surround me, I am young, bright and disenchanted without really knowing with what or why. I can't watch "Oprah" or "House of Style" without making cynical comments: wisecracks culled form my vastly broad, yet miserably shallow vocab...

Author: By Alexandra Jacobs, | Title: Taking a Bite Out of Hollywood | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...Oprah Gets Even Richer

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week March 13-19 | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

...Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions and King World distributors announced a deal on Friday that would pay the already megarich TV talk-show host more than $500 million. The agreement increases her share of syndication profits and could extend the run of her popular TV show through the year 2000. Winfrey is also allowed to drop her show without any contract penalties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week March 13-19 | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

...they're going to miss us, boys. "I think matriarchies are always a sign of social disintegration," Carlson continues, selling wolf tickets in Oprah country. "In history there are no examples of sustained, vigorous matriarchal % societies." Dire conclusion: "I think we're a society in decay and destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Are They Really That Bad? | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

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