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...certainly enthusiastic. Culver City, California, doctor Ben Krentzman, a family physician, came out of retirement in 1993 to spread the gospel about fen/phen. He now treats some 300 patients--and so far has tallied 63,000 visitors to his Science of Obesity and Weight Control Website. Krentzman's contrarian advice, based on several months of library work and an ongoing experiment begun last year: take the pills instead of worrying about diet and exercise. Says Krentzman: "Dieting and exercise without fen/phen don't keep people slender, so why should they work with fen/phen...
...renditions of what are essentially stereotyped parts. Strutting, proclaiming, writhing in what he calls his "flash bulb therapy," Maffin does a good imitation of an attention-starved, shock-happy artist slowly coming to terms with the hypocrisy of selling out. But by the play's end, Hart's consistently contrarian Nan Bemiss wins the audience's attention away from the flashier, impetuous artist with her more grown-up version of betrayal...
Mapplethorpe is most famous for his entanglement with the protracted and unintentionally humorous debate over funding for the National Endowment for the Arts in the late eighties. Always a contrarian, the critic Robert Hughes turned up his nose at Mapplethorpe by virtually ignoring him: "Conservative," he sniffed, "in every sense but the sexual...
...seven weeks ago, the big question was whether he was up to the job. By most accounts, Haitian and American, Aristide appears a transformed man. Gone is the leftist firebrand who coyly refused to discipline the mob that brought him to power. Gone too is the self-righteous, mercurial contrarian of Washington exile. In their place is a man whom experience has imbued with wisdom, a newfound respect for dialogue and a deft skill for the politics of pragmatism...
...contrarian campaign was launched by a candidate known simply as Spiliotis: "No experience. (What are you looking...