Word: oprahism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Maya Angelou said she will host an XM Satellite Radio show on Oprah's network because...
...straddles two purposes: to help students adjust to college work and to counsel students adjusting to college life. Given its dual mission, programs through the BSC can seem like a combination of Positive Psych section and a “How to Live Your Best Life” Oprah segment. But for students looking for understanding adults and a mix of undergraduates and grad students to talk to, the BSC can feel homey. Students needing a tutor can get one through the BSC, but with a $4/hr. fee, they might be better off going more frequently to their TFs (free...
Then came Oprah's couch. Then came Brooke Shields and South Park. Most damaging, then came underperforming movies and Paramount's decision to break off its relationship with him. And Suri became a metaphor for everything the public suddenly found suspicious about him. Keeping her unseen, Cruise was pretending that he was still Untouchable...
...fields and less in qualitative disciplines, where "kids are gifted in ways that are hard to measure." But then there is Marla Olmstead, a four-year-old artist whom Quart visited, whose dozens of brightly colored abstract oil paintings have brought in $300,000, as well as calls from Oprah and David Letterman. Some prodigies make successful transitions to adult accomplishment, but others flounder as they get older. Gifted children, an intellectual step down from prodigyhood, tend to be identified with high IQ scores. (Quart is quick to say that she herself was not a prodigy...
...fact, it was a kid who got the cooking-show host her new daily daytime talk show (debuting Sept. 18), the only program besides Dr. Phil that Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions has launched. Terry Wood, president of creative affairs for syndication giant King World (which is co-producing the show), arrived home from work a few years ago to find her daughter staring at one of Ray's Food Network shows, all of which, Wood was surprised to learn, the 6-year-old was deeply familiar with. "I said, 'What do you like about her?' And she pointed...