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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...
Still, even dexfenfluramine supporters do not believe that it--or any other pill--will ever be a dieter's dream come true. Studies show that people who take dexfenfluramine shed an average of only 10% of their weight. Doctors also caution that the drug is intended for those who are 20% or more above their recommended weight range. "It's not a magic pill," stresses Dr. Richard Wurtman, a neurologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who helped develop dexfenfluramine. "It must be used as part of a package that includes good nutritional advice and a good exercise program...
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...
...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...