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PEOPLE & ARTS Wednesday 24 april 2019
'Courage' special brings author Brené Brown to Netflix

By KRISTIN M. HALL to say it. I didn't know we
Associated Press were allowed to talk about
NASHVIILLE, Tenn. (AP) — it,'" said Brown. "And so I
Brené Brown's books on think I just put language
shame, vulnerability and around feelings and expe-
courage have given her A- riences and thoughts that
list fans like Oprah and Me- we all have."
linda Gates and made her She can also curse like a
a go-to leadership consul- true Southern lady, which
tant for both Pixar and the is just enough to set people
Seattle Seahawks. at ease and give them a
But Brown, a research laugh. "Not like Andrew
professor at the Univer- Dice Clay," she said. "An
sity of Houston's Graduate appropriate amount of
College of Social Work, cursing."
thought she'd spend her In the special she talks
career writing for other ac- about her 2010 speech
ademics, not making the on vulnerability that has
New York Times' best-seller become one of the most
list. watched TED Talk speech-
"My goal was to put it in es, now viewed about 39
peer-reviewed articles that million times. Her most re-
no one would read but cent book, "Dare to Lead:
like five people and they Research professor Brene Brown, star of the Netflix special "Brene Brown: The Call to Courage," Brave Work. Tough Conver-
would just read it to check poses for a portrait at Netflix's Hollywood offices, Tuesday, April 16, 2019, in Los Angeles. sations. Whole Hearts," is a
to make sure they were Associated Press playbook for leading with
quoted," Brown told The empathy.
Associated Press from her ing service, whose catego- who is shouting motivation- los." She tells personal an- When asked about lead-
home in Houston. ries Brown doesn't neatly fit al speaker mantras. She ecdotes about her kids and ership qualities she hopes
Five best-selling books later, into. has a researcher's mind for her husband to illustrate her to see among candidates
Brown is debuting her first "Am I comedy? Documen- patterns and a storyteller's broader ideas about par- for the upcoming 2020 U.S.
Netflix special on Friday, tary? True crime?" Brown gift of language. She pep- enting, compassion, lead- presidential election, Brown
"Brené Brown: The Call to joked. pers her talks with plenty ership and more. took a long pause.
Courage ," based off her Brown's skill as a writer and of Texas colloquialisms, like "People will come up to me "I am one-inch away from
two decades of research. speaker is that she doesn't "There's nothing in the mid- and say, 'I already knew being completely disen-
The special is a bit of an sound like a typical self- dle of the road but white everything you said. I just chanted with politics but
experiment for the stream- help or leadership expert stripes and dead armadil- didn't have the language I'm holding on. q

Swole, buzzy, among new words in Merriam-Webster dictionary

By MARK PRATT academic journals, books flake, for example. Unplug
Associated Press and even movie and tele- means to literally tug an
BOSTON (AP) — Get swole, vision scripts until they de- electric plug from a wall
prepare a bug-out bag, tect what he calls "a critical socket, but now, it also
grab a go-cup and maybe mass" of usage that war- has a more metaphorical
you'll have a better chance rants inclusion. meaning, as in to discon-
of surviving the omnicide. The words are added to nect from social media, he
Translation: Hit the gym and the online dictionary first, said.
bulk up, put a bunch of before some are later add- And yes, a snowflake is still
stuff essential for survival in ed to print updates of the a beautiful ice crystal that
an easy-to-carry bag, grab company's popular Col- floats from the sky during
a drink for the road, and legiate Dictionary, which winter, but it now also has a
perhaps you'll live through according to company usually disparaging mean-
a man-made disaster that spokeswoman Meghan ing of "someone who is
could wipe out the human Lunghi, has sold more than overly sensitive," according
race. 50 million copies since 1898, to Merriam-Webster's defi- In this Nov. 16, 2012, file photo, Egyptian body builder Moustafa
Swole , bug-out bag , go- making it the "best-selling nition. Ismail lifts free weights during his daily workout in Milford, Mass.
cup and omnicide are just hardcover book after the Some of the words have Associated Press
a few of the 640 additions Bible." been around for decades,
to Merriam-Webster's dic- "So many people use our but are included in the Popular culture —movies, Hepburn, Marvin Hamlisch,
tionary added Monday. website as their principal dictionary because of in- TV and sports — is a com- Mel Brooks and Whoopi
Deciding what gets includ- dictionary and we want it creased usage. mon source of new words, Goldberg are among the
ed is a painstaking pro- to be current," Sokolowski Omnicide, which means such as buzzy , an adjec- elite group .
cess involving the Spring- said. "We want to be as "the destruction of all life," tive that literally means Garbage time, those pain-
field, Massachusetts-based useful as possible." dates to the Cold War and creating a buzz, such as a ful final minutes of a game
company's roughly two The latest additions include was used in reference to "buzzy new movie." when one team has an
dozen lexicographers, said mostly new words, or phras- the threat of nuclear annihi- And then there's EGOT , a insurmountable lead and
Peter Sokolowski, Merriam- es, but also some old words lation, but lately it has been noun that refers to an en- both teams empty their
Webster's editor at large. with new meanings or ap- used to define the risk of tertainer who has won an benches, has been around
They scan online versions plications. other man-made disasters, Emmy, a Grammy, an Os- since 1960, but is on the lat-
of newspapers, magazines, Take unplug and snow- primarily climate change. car and a Tony. Audrey est list of new words.q