Word: oprahism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...interesting question isn’t whether happiness waxes and wanes, or whether it differs between people—it’s why. If Oprah experiences more happiness than I do, why? Is it that women experience more than men? Is it [that] TV stars experience more than college professors? You could go down the list. And part of what people who study happiness are trying to figure out is which of those items on the list really matter and which don?...
...OPRAH WINFREY, to members of the studio audience at the season premiere of her talk show, each of whom received a new Pontiac...
...bought my first Valentino scarf in the '70s. Then came the shoes, then came the blouse, and now I can afford the whole outfit." --Oprah Winfrey, to WWD, at Valentino's fall couture show in Paris...
...scans were originally used as a last-resort diagnostic tool to find hidden tumors in patients with cancer. But then the tests caught on among the healthy hypervigilant, who were drawn in growing numbers to walk-in clinics by aggressive TV and radio ads. In 2002, two years after Oprah Winfrey got scanned--and bubbled enthusiastically about the experience--32 million Americans shelled out as much as $1,000 apiece to get their bodies X-rayed in thin slices and reassembled into 3-D images detailed enough to show every blemish, scar and incipient tumor. The numbers are down slightly...
...just six years, Dr. Phil McGraw has, with Oprah Winfrey's help, gone from an obscure Texas courtroom consultant to a household name and television icon. This month Dr. Phil, 54, launches the third season of his syndicated talk show, hosts a prime-time network special and publishes a new self-help book. TIME's Jeffrey Ressner caught up with him at his Los Angeles office...