Word: oprahization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anchor for the CBS Evening News in 1981 and has remained in the job, solo or accompanied, ever since. Another television journalist, Barbara Walters, then 43, also made the 1974 list. TIME called her "TV's first lady of talk," and if she has ceded that title to Oprah Winfrey, she remains an institution -- TV's first first lady of talk. Jann Wenner's name appears two places below Walters'; the 28-year old founder of Rolling Stone was then known to his staff as "Citizen Wenner," we reported. That year his publishing interests grossed $6 million...
...OPRAH WINFREY...
Still, it's hard to imagine a culture more conducive to feelings of sexual inadequacy than America in the 1990s. Tune in to the soaps. Flip through the magazines. Listen to Oprah. Lurk in the seamier corners of cyberspace. What do you see and hear? An endless succession of young, hard bodies preparing for, recovering from or engaging in constant, relentless copulation. Sex is everywhere in America - and in the ads, films, TV shows and music videos it exports abroad. Although we know that not every zip code is a Beverly Hills, 90210, and not every small town a Peyton...
...some yardsticks, Dr. Peter Breggin seems to be a successful -- perhaps even influential -- psychiatrist. He has earned impressive academic credentials, published a string of books and shown up on Today and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Many patients rave about the doctor. "He's a wonderful person," says one satisfied customer. "He cares so much about his clients. He gave me the will to get better...
...would be better if Breggin, the loudest voice making those points, were less shrill and more reasonable. But then, the calmer voices never seem to make it onto Oprah...