Word: oprahism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...surprisingly durable genre. It's true what the movie poster says: THE LAST MAN ON EARTH IS NOT ALONE. The joint is crawling with last men. Will Smith in I Am Legend. The nameless hero of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road, an Oprah pick last year. Yorick from the hit comic book Y: The Last Man (which publishes its 60th and last issue at the end of this month), who survives a plague that kills only men?the women are fine. Even Disney is doing it: Wall*E, a Pixar film that opens in June...
...Hillary Clinton (Senator from New York) PRO: If she’ll cry for the primary, we’re excited for the main election. CON: Reverse Monica Lewinsky scandal? Unfortunately, we don’t think that will happen. Barack Obama (Senator from Illinois) PRO: Chi-town tested, Oprah Approved. CON: We’re just not sure there’s a point to having a president you can’t make fun of easily. John Edwards (Senator from North Carolina) PRO: Dimples that rival Shirley Temple’s. CON: Used to be a malpractice attorney...
...conservative pundit, railed against Barack Obama for pledging, if he's President, to meet with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yet turning down the Report: "He's saying Stephen Colbert is worse than a terrorist. His words!" The strike, if it continues, could produce a critical talk-show gap. (Fortunately for Obama, Oprah doesn't have guild writers...
...Democratic rivals, by comparison, have no history of mistakes on the big stage from which they could have derived hard lessons. (Guest spots on Oprah don’t count.) Obama claims superior “judgment” to Hillary because, as an Illinois State Senator, he opposed the Iraq war, while the majority of Democratic senators, including Hillary and Edwards, voted in favor of Bush’s war resolution. He deserves credit for his prescience on this issue just as Hillary deserves credit for her support, as a private citizen, for the first Iraq...
Despite the flashes of glamour and star power provided by visitors like Oprah Winfrey (for Barack Obama), Bill Clinton (for his wife) and newly popular cult hero Chuck Norris (for Mike Huckabee), most Iowans came out not to celebrity-watch but to ensure that the candidates addressed the issues facing a troubled nation. They asked questions--often worthy of a doctoral defense--and refused to accept bumper-sticker answers...