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...short, stands for Oprah--heartfelt, improving and mysteriously able to transform the commercial exploitation of bathos into a unique blend of self-help spirituality, pop feminism and Benjamin Franklin optimism. "You always have the potential to get better," writes Oprah in her introduction. "That, as I see it, is one of the purposes of your life: Not to be good but continuously to get better, to constantly move forward, to create the highest, grandest vision and to be led by that vision every...
This bill, the African Growth and Opportunity Act, would give sub-Saharan African countries duty-free access to the U.S. textile market, a self-help strategy that should prove much more successful than the current foreign aid policy of loaning money or forgiving debts. Although the bill should be welcomed with some reservations, the Clinton administration was still correct in its decision to sacrifice the World Bank proposal in order to ensure the bill's passage. While the more modest African Growth and Opportunity Act actually has a good chance of being enacted, the World Bank proposal is not only...
Syndicated self-help radio host DR. LAURA SCHLESSINGER's motto is "Preach, Teach and Nag." The nagging really works. When Paramount announced plans for a Dr. Laura television show, gay-advocacy groups bombarded executives with phone calls and e-mails threatening a boycott. Schlessinger, 53, has told her 18 million listeners that homosexuality is a "biological error" and that gays are "sexual deviants." At first, the rigidly self-righteous Schlessinger called her nemeses "fascists" and proclaimed herself a lone voice "for Judeo-Christian ideology." But on Friday, cowed, she issued an apology. "Some of the words I've used have...
...Fielding knows when she's on to a good thing: this sequel avoids making Bridget relationship-bound, and duplicates many of the elements of the initial diary, incomplete sentences and all. The diet books of the first diary may have been replaced by self-help ones, but Bridget's pick-and-mix approach, choosing only the advice she enjoys, remains, as do the dynamics of her tripartite friendship with Jude and Shazzer. As they work their way through their various relationships, that friendship is both funny and genuinely warm. The casual acceptance of smoking, alcohol use and sex (aside: could...
...elements such as the aforementioned Darcy, the scheming Rebecca and mislaid letters), a large part of the book's humor derives in part from the deluded conviction of a heroine who 'knows' what should be done in love. Bridget's precepts come humorously from her new source of inspiration, self-help books ("a new form of religion") and Fielding's description of the conflicting advice (Bridget owns both Happy to be Single and How to Find Your Perfect Partner in Thirty Days) manages to simultaneously send up the heroine and increase our goodwill towards...