Word: upbeat
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Only Oprah has taken a stand against these talk-show donnybrooks, rejecting Ricki-like confrontations and stressing more upbeat, inspirational programs. "Oprah's purpose is to lift people up, to help them move on in their lives," says executive producer Dianne Atkinson Hudson. The show is still capable of sensational moments, such as Winfrey's on-air confession two weeks ago that she had used cocaine. But most of her recent topics-couples with credit problems, people who have had bad experiences calling 911-would seem hopelessly staid to her voyeuristic competitors...
Criminal-justice experts say there is no dissonance between the somber mood and the upbeat statistics. The effect of three decades of rising crime rates has been cumulative: rare is the family that has not been scarred. ``We've been living at what is a very high plateau of criminality for a long time,'' says John Stein, deputy director of the National Organization for Victim Assistance. ``And the American public is worn out by it.'' For all Americans, the odds of becoming a victim are far greater than they were in 1963, when the FBI crime index counted...
...this has been Cochran's only acknowledgment that there may in fact be tough times ahead. In an interview last week with Time, he appeared cool, determined, even upbeat. Fielding calls in his ultramodern Wilshire Boulevard office from his second wife Dale and from Simpson's friends Paula Barbieri and Robert Kardashian, Cochran offered a preview of the strategy he will roll out this week. He will examine many of the witnesses, while Shapiro and two junior attorneys will handle the others; Bailey will conduct most of the cross-examination. Throughout, Cochran says, they will hammer on what he calls...
Still, the mood in much of the state is more upbeat than it has been in months. In one of the Zapatistas' jungle strongholds, the settlement of Guadalupe Tepeyac, Tacho praised Zedillo for the sincerity of his efforts. ``The most important factor,'' said the rebel, ``was that he sent his Interior Minister as his direct representative. That shows he's taking the problem seriously.'' The Zapatistas are relatively confident that their prime demand will be met: the removal from office of Eduardo Robledo, the p.r.i. governor whose August election--in the same balloting that elected Zedillo--was deemed fradulent...
President Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama ended a quick Washington summit today by plugging the upbeat side of current U.S.-Japanese relations: joint support of the North Korean nuclear pact and the mini-breakthrough to allow U.S. apples onto Japanese shelves. The little-mentioned downside: The U.S. trade gap with Japan has grown, Clinton admitted, and "further progress must be made" to open Japan's markets to U.S. autos and auto parts, which account for nearly 60 percent of the deficit...