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Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time, a criticism that takes in various arts all at once.

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In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.

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The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations.

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Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website - is hardly ignoble.

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In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and the country entered the beginning stages of a quiet cultural revolution.

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A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions of charity and hope, to hard resolve, to redemption and moral renovation.

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Every 'Oprah Winfrey Show' has about it the aura of Oprah's own life, just as the rituals and sacraments of a religion are suffused with the life of the religion's founder. Above the testimony of Oprah's guests hovers what viewers know about Oprah's experience.

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'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.

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It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are.

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Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: December 5th, 1957

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