Word: oprahization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BARNES, an 11-year-old Australian boy who spoke in Jackson's defense, said the star shared a bed, with him. "I was on one side of the bed, and he was on the other," he told KNBC-TV. "It was a big bed." In his TV interview with Oprah Winfrey last February, when asked what he missed in his own childhood, Jackson said, "Slumber parties." He had them with the 13-year-old who made the allegations; indeed, Jackson traveled to Monte Carlo and Walt Disney World with that boy, his half-sister and his mother and, according...
...might be poor," says Oprah Winfrey, "but we ain't sellin' our soul to the devil today." The cameras are rolling as Winfrey, a TV talk-show host who is said to earn more than $40 million a year, tackles her newest role, that of LaJoe Rivers, an impoverished mother of eight children struggling to survive in the Henry Horner Homes, a violent Chicago housing project. The movie, which will air on ABC in November, is the first serious film from Harpo, Winfrey's production company. It's based on the nonfiction best seller There Are No Children Here...
...spots a man tumbling into a spillway. In keeping with Kingsolver's fictional line of determined women, the tot convinces the authorities that she did not imagine the incident. A search turns up a man with only an ankle injury. Turtle becomes a hero and a participant on an Oprah Winfrey show about kids who save people's lives. She is seen by millions, including Annawake Fourkiller, an Oklahoma lawyer dedicated to annulling Anglo adoptions of Indian children...
...skinheads? For a time it was difficult to divine how many parts monster they were and how many parts fashion victim. The evidence, however, increasingly suggests that they can no longer be perceived merely as exhibits in the great American freak show, good for throwing a chill into Oprah or obliging another host's ego by breaking Geraldo's nose on camera. Rather, the skins have found their niche in American society. It is a far larger niche than most Americans would like them to have, especially as its inhabitants tend to kill people...
Such behavior got them on Oprah and Geraldo. It also captured the attention of onetime Klansman Tom Metzger, head of White Aryan Resistance, California's best-known hate group. Metzger, whose well-developed philosophy includes the expulsion of America's Latinos and Asians and the creation of separatist black and white states, recruited successfully among skinhead groups in the West and Midwest. Too successfully, perhaps. On the last night of a visit by a WAR lieutenant, three Portland, Oregon, skins beat an Ethiopian student named Mulugeta Seraw to death. The case drew national attention, and the Southern Poverty Law Center...