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...pounds, the hottest rookie in competitive eating looks more like a model for the Atkins diet than someone who set a world record by devouring 157 chicken wings in just 32 min. But Sonya Thomas, 36, shown at right celebrating that record, wants to bolster her status as the world's speediest gobbler at several of the 70 contests the International Federation of Competitive Eating has scheduled for 2004. Thomas, who holds titles for downing tacos (43 in 11 min.) and eggs (65 in 7 min.), hopes to pad the $20,000 she's won this year. The rival stars...
...feel for a guy who can't stay on his own diet. "Over the holidays, my wife said I was the only one in the country not on the South Beach diet," confesses Arthur Agatston. So Dr. Agatston is back to Phase One, depriving himself of fruit, wine and whole grains. That is no major failure, according to his plan. It's exactly such permissiveness that made a famous cardiologist into a far more famous nutritionist. We all sensed that the grease in the bunless double cheeseburger was a bit much and that we could use some fiber, but Agatston...
...drag from his hand-rolled cigarette, is the intellectual film critic. To those removed from the academic world, this person doesn’t exist, but any student at all familiar with the inside of a university film studies department knows his kind very well. Subsisting on a rigid diet of Fassbinder and Brakhage, the only filmic pleasure he knows is found deep within his Criterion collection...
...inscription to O’Mary, Summers was even more effusive. “Your wisdom, Diet Coke, a smile-—what more could a man want...
Favorite mixed drink: P: Cosmos, because they’re pink. V: Diet Coke or tequila...