Word: oprahism
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...precise legal definition of "a constitutional majority of the popular vote"--which would seem, at first glance, to be an utterly meaningless offense against United States law, not to mention the English language. But then, the petition was also signed by Toni Morrison, who has been perpetrating Oprah-peddled offenses against the English language for quite some time--so perhaps the relentless nonsense of the text is to be expected...
...keelhaul her father, at least not consciously. "He was a man who all his life looked outside for what was missing inside," she concludes at one point. Still, you hate to see the Chairman of the Board reduced to the level of a case study for an Oprah segment...
...this wonk business: I spoke with Gore in his hotel room the week before last. Having completed a day of Regis, Oprah, Saturday Night Live and the Al Smith dinner, and set to wake up at 5 a.m. to do the Today show, he stretched out and had a beer. It was close to midnight. He should have been exhausted. Instead, in answer to my questions, he sailed into exquisitely detailed, many-referenced and well-over-my-head explanations of the economy, the arms race and anything else his mind embraced...
...keelhaul her father, at least not consciously. "He was a man who all his life looked outside for what was missing inside," she concludes at one point. Still, you hate to see the Chairman of the Board reduced to the level of a case study for an Oprah segment...
With Poisonwood still riding near the top of paperback charts, thanks at least in part to its June selection by the Oprah Book Club, here comes Kingsolver's new novel, Prodigal Summer (HarperCollins; 444 pages; $26), which is something of a return to the author's earlier form. It is an altogether lighter and more easygoing affair than its immediate predecessor. Its setting has narrowed from the vast heart of Africa to a mountain and valley in southern Appalachia over the course of a single hot and unusually rainy summer. Its subject is not the clash of ideologies...