Word: rickie
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Scientific ideas don't die, they just fade away into popular culture. Psychoanalysis is as dead a science as alchemy. But its central idea, that somehow catharsis leads to cure, lives on--rages on--in Oprah and Geraldo and Ricki Lake and the whole steaming psychic stew that is our confessional culture...
...Tuesday, Seary was introduced to Canadians on the "Camilla Scott Show," which she describes as "the Canadian version of Ricki Lake...
...Ricki L. Seidman, director of Rock the Vote and a former deputy communications director at the White House, said she is excited to share her "real world experience" with students...
Popular culture shines its klieg lights on the most intimate corners of our lives, and most of us play right along. If all we really wanted was to be left alone, explain the lasting popularity of Oprah and Sally and Ricki tell-all TV. Memoirs top the best-seller lists, with books about incest and insanity and illness leading the way. Perfect strangers at cocktail parties tell me the most disturbing details of their abusive upbringings...
...Donnell Show, on Entertainment Tonight and in the pages of Vanity Fair, PI's appeal lies in the fact that it offers us the rare hope of seeing celebrated figures break through their wrapping. PI is at its best when panelists become slightly unhinged, when they start behaving like Ricki Lake guests in higher tax brackets, as Chevy Chase recently did when he attacked producer Steven Bochco and ranted, quite seriously, that people should be reading Thomas Hardy instead of watching...