Word: oprahism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...golden girl, naturally, was on the side of quality. And to prove it, she had a McCall?s ?Mike? award, given to executive who had performing signal public service for women. She earned it in 1952 for her pioneering work producing intelligent TV - a mixture of ?Charlie Rose? and ?Oprah? - for American housewives...
...public image. He promised to curtail his loose tongue and aggressive parliamentary manner. So far, he has been disciplined. Given his dramatic rise, journalists are seeking to fill out his back story. After a slush of rumors about his private life, and claims of physical violence, Latham held an Oprah-style press conference to defend his character. A safe player would have issued a denial and held his nerve; Latham turned the episode into hyper-reality TV. "There were things that you just wouldn't believe," Latham told reporters about his first marriage, almost teasing them to ask, "Like what...
Fans camped out overnight in New York City for his first book signing. On Day One alone, BILL CLINTON moved 400,000 copies of his memoir. Later he sparred with a BBC interviewer, hung tough with Diane Sawyer and Katie Couric, and got soft and fuzzy with Oprah. By the end of the week, he may have been the most overexposed ex-President in history. But can that man sell a book or what...
DIED. MATTIE J.T. STEPANEK, 13, upbeat poet and champion of world peace who sold millions of books and enchanted even more people with spirited appearances on TV shows like Oprah and Good Morning America; of muscular dystrophy; in Washington. Mattie, who counted former President Jimmy Carter as a friend, published five books of poetry and was an ever cheerful advocate of muscular dystrophy awareness. He had a rare form of the disease, which impeded his breathing, heart rate and digestion and confined him to a wheelchair. The same disease killed his three elder siblings...
...slave named Sally Hemings (she gave birth to at least six, and possibly seven, children in all). If that Jefferson was the third President, as many historians believe, it means at least some of Sally Hemings' descendants were Thomas Jefferson's too. After a very public invitation on The Oprah Winfrey Show in November 1998 by an association member, dozens of Hemings began attending the group's annual reunion, albeit as guests, not members...