Word: oprahization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...post office is my most vital friend. Oprah would say the post office is my enabler. Last spring, the phrase on everybody's lips was" do you want the same people running health care who run the post office?" All I could answer was, YES! The post office sweeps up my thoughts and delivers them into some stranger's eager hands. The wings of the post office eagle mediate between my brain and someone else's. It's pure magic--exactly what we're demanding from doctors...
...politicized music, there is little room in No Disrespect for human frailty and indecision in her vision of herself. Souljah touches self-consciously on many of the social, political and psychological issues that keep Oprah and Ricky on top in the ratings. She is brutal and exacting in her account of man-sharing; forgiving and indulgent of the friend who collects abortion money from her stable of men to fund a shopping spree; passionate in her love of Nathan, her "strong Black man," but callous in her dismissal of him when imperfection challenges his masculinity. Souljah is overly political, impassioned...
...know now. Following the sweeps-month interview with Walters, Louganis embarked on a nationwide tour to promote his book, co-authored with Eric Marcus (Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990). Excerpts will be published this week in People just as Louganis appears on Oprah. The publicity blitz seems calculating and somewhat cynical, adjectives never before ascribed to Louganis. The big question hanging in the air last week was, What took him so long? And right below that were some others: Should he have told the International Olympic Committee in '88? Didn...
...MONTHS AGO, COLUMNIST RICHARD COHEN of the Washington Post publicly confessed his addiction to Solitaire, the computer version of the onanistic card game. Free with every copy of Windows, it has enslaved a goodly portion of the American population. Cohen's admission may have lacked the wattage of Oprah's confession to past cocaine abuse but not the poignancy: responsible, respected writer shamefully neglects most everything-family, work, leisure-in endless pursuit of the perfectly useless perfect hand. Heartbreaking...
Alas, no one. Having also forsaken family, friends and work in pursuit of the 100 hidden mines in the cryptic grid, I now come forward. Not just, however, to confess and admonish. This story has a happy ending. I come to heal. In the best Oprah tradition, I come to announce and share my cure...