Word: pill
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This is the season when Americans gingerly try on bathing suits before bedroom and dressing-room mirrors and wish there were a diet pill that would erase those fleshy bulges. They may never get their wish, but they may be getting closer. Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new antiobesity drug called dexfenfluramine that will be sold in America perhaps as early as June by Wyeth-Ayerst under the brand name Redux. It is the first diet drug approved for use in the U.S. in the past 23 years and represents a new generation of smarter...
While Sarnat has the opportunity to present mental sickness in a much more disturbing way, her humor makes the existential grief of these characters more palatable--like the sugar coating on a pill. The characters can't help being regressive, what with all the medication they take. The humor, like the attractive musical score, is a reminder of happier emotions; but the play's ultimate message is that, in the words of one patient, "Dead is free...
...rear-view mirror to keep watch over the kids. It's a charming clip and an apt metaphor for Morissette's career. As a teen star in her native Canada, she played the part of the well-behaved good sister. Now, on her U.S. debut album, Jagged Little Pill, she has transformed herself into a passionate and unruly rocker. But like the parent in the front seat, Morissette, 21, has kept her disparate selves in check and stayed on the road to success: this week Jagged Little Pill hits No. 1 on the Billboard charts, and in next week...
...told the Calgary Herald in 1991. "But the way I look at it...people will like your next album if it's a kick-ass one." In 1994 Morissette signed with Maverick records--run by Madonna, who knows a thing or two about musical makeovers--and with Jagged Little Pill has delivered the butt-kicking album she wanted. The sound is more muscular; her voice is rawer, the guitar work more aggressive. The songs are about such topics as postbreakup rage (You Oughta Know) and overbearing parents (Perfect), and while the words are rarely as smart as they seem...
...transformation of Morissette's persona that makes Jagged Little Pill so intriguing. Rebellion--against society, against one's past--is, after all, the essence of rock. When, on Right Through You, she sings, "You took me for a joke/ You took me for a child/ You took a long hard look at my ass/ And then played golf for a while," it's as startling as Chelsea Clinton with a Mohawk. Morissette's anguished, sometimes screechy voice is the sound of postadolescent independence. She's in the driver's seat...