Word: oprahization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...OPRAH (FORMERLY "ZAFTIG") WINFREY OCCUPATION: Running a book club BEST PUNCH: In a 1996 episode about mad-cow disease coming to the U.S., Oprah said, "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger. I'm stopped." Cattle prices fell for the next two weeks...
TEXAS ("MAD, MAD, MAD") CATTLEMEN OCCUPATION: Killing bovines BEST PUNCH: Thirteen cattlemen have forced Oprah to move her talk show to Amarillo, Texas, on Jan. 26 for a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit they filed under Texas' popular "veggie libel...
...WINNER Oprah. She's the most powerful woman in the U.S. Laws be damned...
...Puppy Episode After the endless media tease, the stakes were high for Ellen's coming-out episode on ABC. To live up to its hype, it had to be a classic--and it was. The hourlong broadcast had wit, charm and great performances by Ellen DeGeneres, Laura Dern and Oprah Winfrey, perfectly cast as a therapist...
Scientific ideas don't die, they just fade away into popular culture. Psychoanalysis is as dead a science as alchemy. But its central idea, that somehow catharsis leads to cure, lives on--rages on--in Oprah and Geraldo and Ricki Lake and the whole steaming psychic stew that is our confessional culture...