Word: oprahization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dylan, folk musician --T.S. Eliot, poet --Aretha Franklin, soul musician --Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer --Jim Henson, puppeteer and creator of TV's Muppets --James Joyce, novelist --Pablo Picasso, artist --Rodgers & Hammerstein, Broadway showmen --Bart Simpson, cartoon character --Frank Sinatra, singer --Steven Spielberg, moviemaker --Igor Stravinsky, classical musician --Oprah Winfrey, TV talk-show host...
...said that Santos and Davis had asked him to help them land Oprah Winfrey, John Glenn or Colin Powell for the speech, but they were unsuccessful...
...when Simpson, the director of the Institute of Politics (IOP), asked talk show host Oprah Winfrey if she would speak at Class Day ceremonies, Winfrey said no. When he asked Senator John H. Glenn (D-Ohio), a former astronaut, Glenn also said no. Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell had the same answer...
...following the channel's successful animated comedy South Park. Instead of words of wisdom from exotic dancers, here we get household hints from adult-film stars, girls jumping on trampolines, and hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla (the show's creators) drinking beer as they make fun of marriage, Oprah and movies starring Bette Midler--subjects lots of awful sitcoms already skewer, and for free...
Known as "Sister Prez" on the Spelman campus, Cole's decade-long tenure was marked by a tripling of the school's endowment and a capital campaign which attracted financial support from Oprah Winfrey and a $20-million gift from Bill and Camille Cosby...