Word: iras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obscenity charges, thinks the seller of child porn is a suitable target: "It is totally unrealistic to say that the people who sell these magazines and films are not involved in the act themselves." Yet other lawyers consider a broad child-abuse law a form of backdoor censorship. Says Ira Glasser of the New York Civil Liberties Union: "I assume if you put your mind to it, you could come up with an acceptable statute prohibiting adults from using children in explicit sex films and photos, but controlling what people see or read is another matter. Everything published ought...
...Ira A. Jackson '70, assistant dean of the Kennedy School, said yesterday he expects construction to begin late this spring, with completion in September...
...Late Show. Art Carney trudges through the role of washed-up shamus Ira Wells, opposite Lily Tomlin's hippydippy hippy, who hires Wells to find her cat and leads them both into a big mess of a sinister imbroglio. Robert Benton, screenwriter and director, does a lot of borrowing, from both classic and more recent detective flicks, but does his cribbing in style. The actors, meanwhile, are heavily, and affectingly, into themselves: particularly the kharma and vibrations-obssessed Tomlin. With the same L.A. backdrop that the great Chandler stories grew out of, this one proves as well-oiled...
...using imagination and pantomime instead of props to accentuate their messages, the actors sometimes achieve poignant and amusing effects. One especially memorable segment dealt with sexism in children's textbooks. The two male members of the troupe, Tom, a professional mover, and Ira, a bearded former research scientist, wore scarves and comically portrayed little girls. The four female members, Judith, Kristen, Cass, and Lydia, donned baseball caps and portrayed tough little boys...
...role stereotypes forced on school children. In one scene, the little boys blew on their pinwheels to make them spin, while the little girls waited in vain for the wind to make their pinwheels go. "Maybe there'll be wind tomorrow," the wide-eyed and gray-bearded Ira says sweetly, as he holds up his imaginary pinwheel...