Word: oprahism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...year-old female voter subscribes to or what websites she reads," says a former DNC consultant, "you can apply that to things like Google AdSense"--which generates increasingly specific ads as it monitors how a user clicks through a website. "When someone types in the words schools or Oprah, your education plan--targeted for moms--will be right there. You're still fishing, but at least you're fishing with the right bait." Candidates will also infiltrate every trusted message board and blog that they possibly can. "That's just a given," says Trippi...
...sign autographs. Asked for a single piece of advice for Harvard students, he said, “never give up” and “don’t believe rumors.” False rumors have circulated online, claiming Hilfiger made disparaging comments about African-Americans on Oprah Winfrey’s talk show. Winfrey has denied the rumors and said on her show, “Read my lips. Tommy Hilfiger has never appeared on this show.” —Staff writer Kathleen Pond can be reached at kpond@fas.harvard.edu...
...Silent In 1985 Elie Wiesel [INTERVIEW, Feb. 6] received the Congressional Gold Medal from Ronald Reagan "in recognition of his ... contributions to world literature and human rights." In describing Wiesel's achievements, TIME wrote of his witnessing the Holocaust and his memoir Night, currently a selection of Oprah's Book Club. Here is an excerpt from that article [March...
...probably could have kept going well past five. Now try the same exercise with black women. If you’re anything like most of the people I’ve talked to, you’ll start struggling around three—Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and, um, Oprah? It isn’t as if black women haven’t been present and active the entire time. Contrary to widely held opinion, black women have made huge contributions to American history that go well beyond simply giving birth to and supporting black men. Women such...
...titular heroine in “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge” in 2000. She was the first African-American to receive the Best Actress Oscar for her phenomenally tortured performance as Leticia Musgrove in “Monster’s Ball” in 2002. And, most importantly, Oprah is a huge fan. And you don’t question Oprah….You just don’t. But we turn now to three infamous duds in Berry’s otherwise outstanding oeuvre: “B*A*P*S,” (short...