Word: oprahization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peaking with the publication last week of Price's most distinctive and haunting work, an account of his affliction and renewal titled A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing. Reviewers are being even more generous than usual, and TV talk masters Larry King, Charlie Rose and Oprah Winfrey are beckoning. Price wrote the book, he says, because when he was hospitalized and searching for hope, "I couldn't find anything like it. There were stories from wives, from children, but no stories from survivors. I wanted to tell how one person got through a ghastly ordeal...
Chef hits best-seller lists with the recipes that slimmed Oprah...
...being called Leila and wearing tight, tight jeans in which Calvin tauntingly claims he can see her panty lines. Poor Calvin doesn't have a life-it's a Friday night and he would rather stay home with Mom writing porn. While the situation would make a good Oprah topic, D'Aquila's human portrayal along with the well-paced flashes of commentary from the booths, produce a compelling force that keeps us watching...
...proof of such Close Encounters is, as with all things, in the pudding, and this fellow's pudding was rich with Veritas. He didn't ask us to believe his abduction story just on the basis of his say-so (for, as he casually informed the assembled crowd of Oprah-worshippers, not even his own father--surprise, surprise--lent any credence to that), but offered as hard evidence a tape. Not of the aliens mind you; but of his own screams during a hypnosis session when he "relived" the abduction. How much more prima facie...
Worse yet the sedulous "news" hounds at WHDH didn't miss the appearance either. The story of the Harvard professor who believes in little green man shared up billing with the usual Oprah is certainly an insult; but to be laughed at by R.D. Sahl is surely a much deeper slander. May some of these supposedly ubiquitous aliens carry their Cantabridgian prophet away...