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...Ira E. Stoll contributed to this story...
...side plot, about Prohibition and a nightclub's hidden supply of booze, is even sillier. Again, contemporary audiences may be a little queasy about the condescension to dialect and folkways and the equation of black status with pseudowhite behavior. But there is a nonpareil score by George and Ira Gershwin (Someone to Watch Over Me, Clap Yo' Hands) and a display of solo and ensemble tap dancing, by Gregg Burge and a 16-member chorus under the direction of Dan Siretta, that is unsurpassed on Broadway...
...Americans exercise regularly. Nor have the workouts trimmed the obesity rate: 1 in 4 U.S. women age 35 to 64 is obese. And as much as the ideal body image has changed, there is still a lingering fear that women will begin to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Sports columnist Ira Berkow, for instance, wrote approvingly in the New York Times that tennis star Jennifer Capriati is "ladylike" and "nicely toned without looking muscular...
...Jane Ira Bloom...
What does America's space program have in common with a soprano saxophone? Quite a lot, when the instrument is played by Jane Ira Bloom, 35, a jazz virtuoso who was the first musician commissioned to create a work for NASA's art program. Witnessing a Discovery shuttle launch close up inspired her to compose a four-part suite entitled Rediscovery, which premiered at Cape Canaveral last fall. Long fascinated by the links between music and motion, Bloom has also composed scores for the famed Pilobolus Dance Theater and the repertory theater at Yale, where she earned a master...