Word: oprahization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Roosevelt we mean Roosevelt today, i.e., a Roosevelt who had absorbed all the self-revelatory cultural conventions of our time, well then, of course he would bare everything. He would go on Oprah, indeed not just in a wheelchair but hand in hand with Lucy Mercer...
...yourselfers gather data from a broad range of sources: from friends, pharmacists and store clerks to magazines, the Internet and other media obsessed with health and fitness. "The No. 1 source of information is probably Oprah Winfrey," Troup says laughing. His favorite resource: GNC's Interactive BioNutritional Encyclopedia, a touch-screen computer that helps customers navigate GNC's bewildering array of multivitamins, herbs, minerals and, coming soon, "nutriceuticals...
...event, the way Americans think and talk about race will have to catch up with the new reality. Just how anachronistic our racial vocabulary has become was made clear by Woods in an appearance last week on The Oprah Winfrey Show. When asked if it bothered him, the only child of a black American father and a Thai mother, to be called an African American, he replied, "It does. Growing up, I came up with this name: I'm a 'Cablinasian,' " which he explained is a self-crafted acronym that reflects his one-eighth Caucasian, one-fourth black, one-eighth...
What makes this issue even more complex is that Tiger Woods is constantly identified in the press as an African-American, although he is uncomfortable with this racial classification. On yesterday's "Oprah Winfrey Show," Woods said that it bothers him when people call him an African-American because his background also includes white, Asian and Native American heritage; he is actually only one-fourth black...
...book clubs, which are hot these days and getting hotter. Moving into the social vacuum created by the decline of Tupperware parties while appealing to some of the same higher yearnings as 12 Step groups, book clubs are invading homes, apartments and even TV studios. It's ironic. Oprah Winfrey, the woman once charged with debasing American culture through years of tacky psychodramas, has become, in a flash, the torchbearer of literacy, promoting such solidly challenging fare as Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon along with such worthy popular entertainments as Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone. Her book...