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...event, the way Americans think and talk about race will have to catch up with the new reality. Just how anachronistic our racial vocabulary has become was made clear by Woods in an appearance last week on The Oprah Winfrey Show. When asked if it bothered him, the only child of a black American father and a Thai mother, to be called an African American, he replied, "It does. Growing up, I came up with this name: I'm a 'Cablinasian,' " which he explained is a self-crafted acronym that reflects his one-eighth Caucasian, one-fourth black, one-eighth...
What makes this issue even more complex is that Tiger Woods is constantly identified in the press as an African-American, although he is uncomfortable with this racial classification. On yesterday's "Oprah Winfrey Show," Woods said that it bothers him when people call him an African-American because his background also includes white, Asian and Native American heritage; he is actually only one-fourth black...
Since last year, OPRAH WINFREY, the greatest force in television, has practically saved the alphabet. It's simple. Oprah selects a title for the book-discussion club she launched on her show last fall. Then everyone in America buys it. This gives her the market clout of a Pentagon procurement officer. Architect FRANK GEHRY saw a long struggle culminate in a huge achievement. His $100 million Guggenheim Museum is scheduled to open later this year in Bilbao, Spain...
...book clubs and reading groups. At the least, it appears, reading books (or listening to them in the Jeep) is to the 1990s what gymgoing was to the '80s: something we plan to do, something we want to do and, by all appearances, something everyone else is doing, even Oprah viewers. Perhaps primarily Oprah viewers...
...book clubs, which are hot these days and getting hotter. Moving into the social vacuum created by the decline of Tupperware parties while appealing to some of the same higher yearnings as 12 Step groups, book clubs are invading homes, apartments and even TV studios. It's ironic. Oprah Winfrey, the woman once charged with debasing American culture through years of tacky psychodramas, has become, in a flash, the torchbearer of literacy, promoting such solidly challenging fare as Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon along with such worthy popular entertainments as Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone. Her book...